SBC Conferences

We hope so. To keep posted, check this site at regular intervals or, better yet, sign up for the Ad Rem mailing list (on the front page of our main site). Regular supporters on our USPS mailing list will be notified by first-class mail if a road trip is coming their way.

We have prepared a checklist to answer that question.

The stops are being arranged now. The most certain way to find out is to call our office and speak to Mr. Russell LaPlume (603-239-6485 or rlp@catholicism.org).

If you live on or near the route we are traveling, it is very simple. All you have to do is —

• Arrange a tentative time by contacting Mr. Russell LaPlume in our office (603-239-6485 or rlp@catholicism.org). Mr. LaPlume will help step you through what has to be done.
• Arrange a location for the talk. This can be a parish hall, K of C facility, VFW Hall, local public library, college or school hall, or even a private home (as long as there is at least a small crowd of interested persons). Many of the above locales are inexpensive or even free, depending on your access; call around to find out.
• Advertise it however you can, grassroots style (e.g., word of mouth, phone tree, simple flyers, telling your pastor or chaplain).
• Finalize the details of time and place with Mr. LaPlume so we can book it and announce it on this web site.

It is a series of speeches given throughout the country, a program meant to inform, motivate, and equip Catholics to be better laborers in the project of converting our Republic to the one true faith. The core of each CAT event is Brother André Marie’s talk, “Toward a Catholic America: History, Goals, and Methods.”

In addition to hearing the presentation, those in attendance can browse books and audio products we will bring along. As part of the event, Brother André Marie will also field questions pertinent to Saint Benedict Center’s apostolate, or various topics of a Catholic interest.

No. The Catholic America Tour and the SBC Conference are two distinct realities.

The Catholic America Tour is planning a road trip, a big one. And we need your help to make it successful.

We will cut a CAT path from New Hampshire to Saint Louis, down to Texas, over to Florida, and up the East Coast back to New England. The tour will take three weeks, leaving New Hampshire on February 10, and getting back home on March 3. Since the tour is “on the road” in the most literal sense, we can arrange stops anywhere along the way.

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The map above (which you can “grab” and move around with our mouse to see the whole route), is not complete. We will make side trips off this route if there is a demand. Please let me stress: Any place on this route is a potential speaking engagement — and we will speak to small groups in private homes, if invited. Read the rest of this entry »

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The talk was given on Sunday, October 19, in De Pere, Wisconsin. The subject of the talk is “Toward a Catholic America: History, Goals, and Methods.” Brother André Marie spoke for two hours on the history of the Church in America — good and bad — with particular attention to some of the great apostolic workers who wished to make America Catholic, such as Father Arnold Damen, Archbishop Michael Corrigan, Orestes Brownson, and some local Wisconsin figures, the Dutch Dominican Friar, Father Theodore J. Van den Broek (“the apostle of Wisconsin”), and the Italian Dominican, Venerable Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli.

The talk was given at a chapel overlooking the Fox River, which these and many other missionaries used to travel to and from their missions.

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The first two talks of the Catholic America Tour are now over. Speaking in De Pere and Nededah, Wisconsin, Brother André Marie launched the CAT before two very interested audiences. Here are some of his impressions:

“I met some old friends and lots of new ones. Third Order members, SAI Study Circle die-hards, and many other devout and zealous Catholic souls were in the audiences. It was a great feeling to speak about the evangelization of our America surrounded by memorials of the missions that brought the Faith here. Monuments to Father Allouez, Father Marquette, and other missionaries dot the countryside where I visited. I walked along the Fox River and crossed the Wisconsin River, both major thoroughfares for the missionaries like the Jesuits I just mentioned, as well as the Dominicans that came later — Father Mazzuchelli and Father Van Den Broek, “the Apostle of Wisconsin.” It was thrilling to see the same vistas and touch the same ground as these apostles of Jesus Christ, and to do so with the same purpose they had. The faithful who came to hear the talks were most interested in doing their part to Catholicize our land, and I was happy to play the part of a catalyst in motivating them to do more. I am very grateful to Our Lord, and to the trip’s sponsors, for this blessed opportunity.”

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Details of the two scheduled talks are as follows. Note, the talk on Sunday is in De Pere, not nearby Green Bay, as formerly announced.

De Pere: After the 8:30 AM Mass on Sunday, October 19, Brother André Marie will speak at Saint Michael’s Church (1782 Chappelle Rue, off Lost Dauphin Road, De Pere, WI 54115). For more information, the contact number for this location is 920-336-8852. (Find this location on a map.)

Necedah: At 7:00 PM on Monday, October 20, he will speak at Our Lady of Victory Chapel (N11190 17^th Ave., Necedah, WI 54646). For more information, the contact number for this location is (608) 565-7551. (Find this location on a map.)

In addition to hearing the presentation, those in attendance can browse some books and audio products from Saint Benedict Center. Brother André Marie would also be interested in fielding questions pertinent to Saint Benedict Center’s apostolate.

There is no cost to attend these talks. Please come — and feel free to bring your friends and family, Catholic and non-Catholic alike. We ask that all who come observe the traditional norms of Catholic modesty, especially given the locations of these talks, which are both on church property.