Most Holy Family Monastery

The founder of Most Holy Family Monastery was Joseph Natale (1933-1995), who needed crutches to walk ever after contracting tuberculosis of the bone at the age of 4.[4][5] Natale entered the Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1960 as a lay postulant, but left less than a year later to lay the groundwork for his own religious community. According to an archivist of Saint Vincent Archabbey, Natale left before taking vows; he never actually became a Benedictine monk.[4]

In 1967, a benefactor helped Natale to purchase a property in Berlin, New Jersey to found a community there together with seven other men with disabilities. However, as there was only a small house there at the time and these men were unable to assist with the construction, Natale sent them away until the monastery could be finished.[5] In subsequent years, Natale's vision for the institution changed to focus more on guarding the Catholic religion against acts of the Church's hierarchy which Natale regarded as destructive of "the light of true Catholicism," such as the suppression of the Tridentine Mass and permission of natural family planning.[5] By the mid-70s, the monastery had broken off entirely from the institutional Church.[4]

The monastery's chapel, named the St. Jude Shrine in honor of the "patron saint of hopeless causes," was blessed and dedicated on June 8, 1980.[6] By 1987, the weekly Mass celebrated in this chapel was drawing about 150 worshipers each Sunday,[5] and Michael Cuneo reported at the time of his visit in mid-1994 that the Sunday Mass was attended by "between two and three hundred people."[4]

Initially incorporated in 1993 as the Queen of Angels Corp, the Most Holy Family Monastery is a New York Domestic Not-For-Profit Corporation under the business type "religious organization".[7]

Natale died in 1995, whereupon Michael Dimond (born Frederick Dimond[8]), who joined in 1992 at the age of 19 after converting to Catholicism four years earlier, was elected the Superior.[9]

As of 2020, MHFM teaches that no one should receive communion or attend mass at any Catholic parish (including any sedevacantist sects), since they all preach heresies such as the doctrine of baptism of desire. However, they advise their followers to receive the sacrament of confession from Eastern Catholic priests, or from Latin rite priests ordained before 1968;[10] when the Second Vatican Council changed the rite of ordination for the Latin Church.

According to Michael Cuneo, who researched the various traditional movements in the USA, Natale claimed that he had the gift of prophecy in these words:

Even before Vatican II was finished, I knew, and knew absolutely, that it was part of a Communist conspiracy to destroy the Church. The bishops at the council wanted to democratize Catholicism, they wanted an egalitarian theology, and most of them were secret communists and Masons. They knew exactly what they were doing. My community here was the first one in the United States to see the council for what it really was, and we rejected it completely.

Regardless of what you have been told, John Paul I did not die of natural causes. He was murdered. Shortly after his election "I went into a kind of trance" and was told that John Paul I would be murdered because he wanted to return the Church to its traditions. He was murdered by his own. The Communist infiltrators in the Vatican and the College of Cardinals, working together with the Masons, killed John Paul I. At the same time I also had a vision of John Paul II, and I was told that he would be the next pope and also that he would be an authentic pope, even though most of his actions would be controlled by Communist advisers and manipulators in the Vatican.

Five years [from 1994] is about all the time the world has left.[4]

Dimond and his associates do not regard the communion of churches which has been headed by Pope John XXIII and his successors as identical with the Catholic Church that was headed by Pope Pius XII and his predecessors, and refer to it as "the Vatican II sect."[11] The Dimonds believe Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, and Pope Francis have each been manifest heretics, and therefore incapable of becoming pope.[12]

Michael and Peter Dimond condemn natural family planning (a fertility awareness method for married couples to regulate conception, pregnancy, and birth).[13] The Dimonds regard statements from Catholics condoning natural family planning from before Pius XII as "not infallible or binding" and in conflict with other Catholic teaching that they do consider infallible.[14] The Dimonds' position is noted in the 2010 book Twentieth-Century Global Christianity by Fortress Press, as "an admittedly rare example of contemporary opposition".[15]

The MHFM opposes the doctrines of baptism of desire and baptism of blood, and affirms that "outside the Catholic Church there is absolutely no salvation".[16][17] The MHFM considers itself to be Feeneyite.[17][18]

Dimond and his associates consider the Holocaust "[t]he propaganda hoax which has been so effectively used to cement Jewish power and influence in the world, and to silence any questioning of Jewish activities, support for Israel or a Jewish agenda...we work to expose Jewish domination and evil Jewish enterprises in the world, which (one must say) constitute the main power of the secular conspiracy."[19]

Frederick Dimond (Bro. Michael) is the author of UFOs: Demonic Activity & Elaborate Hoaxes Meant to Deceive Mankind, published in 2008 by Most Holy Family Monastery.

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