Our Lady of America Newsletter
September 14, 2011
Feast of the Triumph of the Cross

Response to questions:

Our recent e-mails have generated questions concerning authority in the Catholic Church over devotion to Our Lady of America.

When one listens to the TV videos made by the Apostolate for Family Consecration which we sent in our last e-mail, it is clear that neither Kevin McCarthy nor Albert Langsenkamp claim authority over this devotion to Our Lady of America. What is true is that some Catholic bishops (mostly from the Western United States) did ask Kevin McCarthy "to get" this devotion "going."

Since then we have learned that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati first asserted jurisdiction over Our Lady of America when Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil) submitted to that archdiocese her messages through the general superior of her religious order, the Congregation of Precious Blood Sisters, a diocesan religious order within, and subject to, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Once having asserted its jurisdiction (called "competence" under Canon Law), and having authorized the original image and the original medallions of Our Lady of America, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati has ascendancy over these devotional items, although each local bishop is also free to rule over practice of the devotion in his diocese.

A problem has persisted because a woman who The Catholic Church dismissed as a Catholic religious sister on August 11, 1982, Patricia Ann Fuller, [who did live in the same convent with the visionary Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil) for a number of years] wrongly asserts and declares that she is a Catholic nun. The attached "formal declaration" dated 21st of June 2011 from The Vatican Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life repudiates this false assertion once and for all. As the formal declaration states: ". . . Miss Patricia Ann Fuller is not a member of any religious Institute, formally recognized by the Catholic Church and therefore must not present herself as a Sister of the Roman Catholic Church. "



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