In preparation for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, announced by Pope Francis, the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy will be posting articles on the Works of Mercy.  Each month, from June through December, we will be posting two articles in which we will feature one Corporal Work of Mercy and one Spiritual Work of […]

Priests for Life and Rachel’s Vineyard are currently running a program called “Shockwaves of Abortion” to help people to understand the far-reaching effects of abortion in society.  The March Shockwaves campaign featured an interview that Fr. Ben Cameron, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy, gave with Kevin Burke:  http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/shockwaves/march/call-to-holiness.aspx

The Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy now has a Private Facebook page!  If you are a registered member of the Confraternity (registration is done through filling out the online form on the “Membership” page of this website) and you are on Facebook, you can now join our Facebook page.  Why join?  Sometimes we need […]

The Confraternity of Our Lady of Mercy now has some brand-new brochures which explain the purpose and plan of life that we seek to embrace to help us to embrace our call to holiness.  If anyone would like to receive a brochure (or a few of them) and/or to receive some of our Confraternity holy […]

Mike Stack, who until recently served as the Site Leader for Rachel’s Vineyard in Detroit, passed away on August 14, 2014, the feast day of St. Maximilian Kolbe, one of the great saints for the pro-life movement (Kolbe willingly took the place of another prisoner at Auschwitz who had been condemned to die in a […]

Jesus Christ is the King of the Universe!  Is He the King of our hearts, our lives, our families, our relationships?  Have we blocked out His kingly rule by the abuse of freedom, which is sin?  Advent is an excellent time to reconnect with our Lord and Savior, to make a good confession, to “get […]

I will be giving a Rachel’s Vineyard Aftercare retreat in the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin from May 18-20 — if you are interested, you can contact me for more information.  I will be giving my retreat series called “Victory over the Culture of Death,” which was developed to introduce the Confraternity and the call to […]

I had a wonderful opportunity to speak at a Divine Mercy Conference in San Ramon, California last weekend, and had the great blessing of “tag-teaming” with one of our Confraternity members!  Theresa Bonapartis, the founder of Lumina in New York (which runs the “Entering Canaan” retreats for post-abortion healing) was one of my fellow speakers.  […]