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THE ARCHDIOCESE OF'
29~EAST
EIGHTH 8TRIEET CINCINNATI,
OHIO
January 5, 1963
Dear Sister Ephrem:
Many thanks for
yours of January 2- giving the address
of the one in India who could be contacted for Ivory work in statues – in due
time I will use this information.
As for
the leaflet:
a) Needless to say it was approved – I had Father
Pilarczyk here to act as Censor and I granted the Imprimatur ---
BUT - the leaflet ends with this notation:
"All material is printed only as a personal
diary and NOT for official publication.”
We distinguish between what is “printed” and what is “published”
– things printed for private use do not carry imprimatur (ag. Notes of the professor for class etc. ) We did not think
this leaflet should be “published” in the strict sense – we looked on it only
as a private printing as long as it contains, as it does, the story of private
revelations.
b) I, being quite naive as you well know, and not
possessing the keen female mind, had not looked on the address on it as a souse
of eyebrow raising etc., but only for the benefit of
those who might want more medals etc. to know WHERE to go to get them. But after further consideration, as usual you
are correct; it would be safer for all concerned not to carry this
address.
Therefore may I suggest:
With a view to the fact that you do have a printing
press:
a) that you run these leaflets
through your press and XXX out the reference to the address. I am no printer, but have seen this done on
stationary where addresses are changed etc., so feel you could do this without
great difficulty.
b) at the same time you could
add the notation “Private printing” but
personally I do not feel this is necessary in view of the last sentence of the
leaflet referred to above.
Finally may I suggest that you perhaps print a new set of
leaflets to go with the medal – containing only the actual description of the
medal as noted on the enclosed revised copy. This
could also carry the two prayers or not as you see fit. Such a shortened leaflet could then carry the
notation “Printed with ecclesiastical
approval”.
I think this procedure should save everyone involved and
still give what is wanted.
May the Wise men bless you with the Divine Wisdom to
better know Him and see Him in all things.
Signed Bishop
Leibold
2.
The Archdiocese of
July
1, 1963
Feast
of Precious Blood.
First I received the leaflets on our Lady of
America. Thanks much – I will gradually
drop them around places as the opportunity presents itself. I still think of it as a private devotion and
wait out Lady’s action to make the
seeds you are planting grow and as it were cause a spontaneous demand for the
object of devotion, rather than engaging
in any high pressure pushing of it.
Secondly thanks for all the greetings etc. --- I am so far behind in my work and
correspondence I am beginning to get ashamed:
we had 73 confirmations this spring with many other affairs – just this
morning consecrating two more altars in new churches: these in St. Therese in
Price Hill, which Honorable Anthony began before he died. Then there are
speeches which one is expected to make which always require much preparation if
one has no great talent like this poor Bishop.
But we are supremely happy with the new Holy Father; if all his acts are
as wisely directed and divinely inspired as his first i.e. the choosing of his
name, then he will be the greatest we ever had – how good that sounds,. Pope
Paul VI. It was John the Baptist who
pointed out Christ to the world, it was Paul, the Apostle, who brought Christ
to the world; we see the parallel in Pope John and Pope Paul
One of our parishioners died and left Father Zugelter $500.00 for Masses. So enclosed please find check for $500.00 for
100 High Masses for the deceased GRACE SCKENWCK. This will carry you for a
while. Frankly I do not know of anyone
who has High Masses they want to get rid of.
The parishes are supposed to send their surplus stipends to this Chancery of Mission offices; but evidently they prefer
to send them to their private friends, for we get very few.
I am happy to hear you had a slight INCREASE in your
community – that will go a long way to helping the general spirit of the
Cloister.
I am as usual, disgustingly
healthy; the only real problem I face is the fact that eh good God only put 24
hours in a day and made me so slow that I need 48; so sometimes the piles get a
little unsightly.
With blessings on all, as ever
in the strength of His Precious Blood, and with the love that impelled Him to
shed it to the last drop.
Signed Bishop Leibold
3.
Contemplative Sisters of
the Precious Blood Our Lady of the Nativity Monastery
New
February 9, 1978
His Holiness, Pope Paul VI,
We, the Contemplative Sisters of the Precious Blood submit this petition
for separation from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Precious Blood, and
ask to begin a new Diocesan Religious Institute that is Contemplative and has
the structure of an autonomous religious house.
We also ask of Your Holiness that we be permitted to retain our
religious vows.
Signed
Sister M. Floricita
Bidart (M=Mary)
Sister Mildred Mary Neuzil
Sister Mary Louise Voisard
Sister Mary Joseph Therese
Sister Virginia Manns
Sister M. Elaine Becker (M=Mary)
Sister Shirley Wichoski
Photocopy below:
I have received the material that you sent me. I
appreciate your thoughtfulness, and we will keep the materials in our files.
There are just a couple things that I believe require
some clarification.
First of all, it is my recollection
that Bishop Leibold asked me to serve as censor for his granting of the imprimatur
for the Prayer to the Indwelling Most Holy Trinity.
It is not my recollection that Bishop Leibold gave any canonical
approval to the message.
Similarly, in the newsletter Our
Lady of America, page 2, you indicate that "Paul F. Leibold,
Archbishop of
We will keep the materials you sent on file, because we
occasionally get inquiries about Our Lady of the
Please keep me in your prayers.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Signed
......................
Most Reverend Daniel E. Pilarczyk Archbishop of
5.
John G. Farnan
216-687-3288
September 26, 2006
A1 Langsenkamp, CEO
Sigma/Micro Corp.
Re:
Our Lady of
File No.: 65185
Dear Al:
On behalf of Sister Mary Joseph
Therese, I wanted to thank you for "renewing"
the Our Lady of America website. Sister
would like you to make one change on her behalf. Specifically, she would like all e –mails that are directed to the site
to be immediately processed, through the website, so that they are sent to
Eugene Gosse, Jr. Sister Therese believes that you have Mr.
Gosse’s e-mail address.
Sister Therese would appreciate if you
could make that change to the website. I
would appreciate if you would send me the e-mail or give me a call when that is
accomplished. Additionally, Sister Therese would like to know any "passwords"
associated with the website.
Thanking you in advance for your assistance, and looking
forward to hearing from you in this regard, I remain,
Very truly yours,
JGF/jj . &closure
cc: Sister
Therese
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6.
LAW
OFFICES KERSHAW &
FABBRI
ALAN R. KERSHAW,
PH.B., J.U.D., J.D.
ADVOCATE OF THE APOSTOLIC TRIBUNAL OF THE ROMAN
VlA M. O'AMEUO. N. 42·00165
TEL. 06-6410225
FAX
06-665 I t 328
Email alkershaw@1ibero.it
Sr. Mary Joseph Therese - Fuller
6th September
2006
This is a follow-up to our meeting Aug.
31'" at the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of
Apostolic life, with the Under Secretary Rev. Sr. Emrica
Rosannak FMA.
The meeting was very successful and I’m sure you are
encouraged by it.
The opportunity for you to review pertinent documentation
on file at the above cited Dicastery, and thereby
verify you statues – i.e. that you are
in no way associated with the Precious Blood Sisters of Dayton, Ohio, 2) that you are the legitimate legal
representative of "Our Lady of Nativity Convent," in Seneca County.
Our Lady of the Nativity Convent, once
a papal enclosure at New Riegel, Ohio, his since
become (circa 1980) a private association of lay faithful living out a
religious life in accordance with Catholic Church law. "By private agreement
among themselves, Christ’s faithful have the right to constitute
associations" of this kind (can. 299, Codez Jusis
Cononici,. which do not
require the approval of the local bishop. As you will recall, this was
specifically confirmed by the Under Secretary during our meeting.
As stated to the Under Secretary we
have prepared statues for a "public" association of the faithful,
which will be presented to the bishop for approval in due course. '
..
The eventual approval of 'a public association
of the faithful is to be considered separate and distinct from the promotion of
a cause for the beatification of the Servant of God, Sr. Mary Ephrem (Mildred
Neuzil); and also from the meeting
already requested with the Toledo Ordinary
with regard to the Our Lady of America devotion.
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I-
Office of the Bishop, The Diocese of
December
17. 2007
Mr. Albert H. Langenskamp
Mr. Kevin B. McCarthy Apt. No.8, 'Viele
Va1icano 75
00165
As I mentioned to you in my recent
letter, it was my intention to meet with Joseph Therese regarding her state of
life in the Church, and also her promotion of the devotion of Our Lady of America.
Having
met with her last Thursday, December 13, it would appear that she had decided
not to comply with your continued direction regarding the future of the
devotion. Indeed she feels personally
aggrieved at the alleged mistreatment as a result of some of your words and
actions. At the same
time, she assured me that she would do whatever is necessary to clarify her
state of life, with a view to her desire to eventually found a new religious
community devoted to Our Lady of America
I had been relieved to know that the
two of you had come to recognize the difficulties faced by Joseph Therese with
regard to her canonical status as well as others concerns. However, it would appear that she too recognizes
the need to resolve these problems, but
prefers to do so without your further intervention.
As I communicated to you earlier, I am willing to give my blessing or
approval to an association of the faithful for the purpose of furthering the
devotion. However, until such time as
the division between yourselves and Joseph Therese is satisfactorily resolved,
I do not feel it would be opportune for me to recognize or approve an
association. I realize that this will be
a cause of frustration and disappointment to you, but I would not want to see the devotion compromised or injured by
unresolved divisions or disputes.
Sincerely
yours in Christ, ,
Most Reverend Leonard P. Blair,
Bishop of
cc:
Most Reverend Raymond Burke
Most Reverend David Richen
Most Reverend Richard
Garcia
Joseph Therese
8.
Diocese of
Post Office
OFFICE OF THE BISHOP'
December 31, 2007
Mr. A1 Langsenkcamp,
IN 46033-8321
Dear AI,
I have received the courtesy copy of the letter sent to
you from Bishop Blair, properly the bishop
of jurisdiction with regard to the devotion to Our Lady of
As I mentioned to you on the phone, I prefer not to be
associated with the promotion of this devotion or the protection of the
statures of Our Lady of America, because I think intimately it causes great
confusion about which bishop has the designated ecclesial authority over the
statue and the devotion.
Thanking you very much for all you do to promote this
cause and also assuring you of a little place in my prayers in this regard, I
remain .
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Signed:
The Most Reverend David L. Richen, DD, JCL
Bishop of
Cc;
Most Reverend Leonard P.
Blair
Most Reverend Raymond Burke
Most Reverend Richard Garcia
Mr. Kevin McCarthy
(Sister) Mary
Joseph Therese
9.
The Most Reverend Bishop Blair
43697-0985 (Letter of Sister Therese to Bishop Blair)
February
8, 2008
Most Reverend Blair,
Greetings, through our dear Blessed Mother. May
she obtain abundant graces and blessings from her Divine Son for you and our diocese.
Your Excellency, this letter is in response to your faxed
Statement of the Diocese of Toledo. First and foremost I thank you for sharing
this with me and giving me the opportunity to respond.
My first question that I feel I am entitled to ask is;
why the Diocese feels the need to respond to these issues, was the credibility
of the sources checked? If sources were
researched, you would find these allegations are not true, since they deflect to
the ongoing defamation of me in the public, on the internet, and with the
bishops being challenged to respond.
I
also notice this is in the timing of the present federal law suit whereas
discovery is about to begin in the Federal Southern District of Indiana, where Albert
Langsenkamp and Kevin McCarthy have filed
a retaliatory and frivolous lawsuit stating that I am operating in a
“fraudulent”" way.
I have the fundamental right to know the source of these
allegations, since I am being put in a compromising situation. Also in the
situation of defending myself which I feel that I should not have to do. The pressure to expedite such a statement leaves me no
recourse but to explain to you the truth.
With regard to this statement of the
Diocese of Toledo regarding the "shrine" to Our
lady of
Paragraph 1
Regarding references to '"The Our Lady of America
Shrine",
If the Diocese of Toledo has never given approbation or
recognition to "an
Our Lady of America Shrine", it is because I have never asked for it in any promotional material,
nor have I
ever used the term "shrine" in reference to Our Lady
of America. Who is referring to Our Lady
of
Paragraph 2.
Regarding references to the Contemplative Sisters
connected to the "shrine"; we have never identified ourselves as
Contemplative sisters connected to a "shrine", I will add that Mr.
McCarthy always invited people to visit
my
property and always referred to it as a shrine. I would
have to inform people that it was not a shrine, so when they came they would realize
there wasn't a place to stay overnight, they would have to stay at a hotel.
Sister Mary Catherine of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery
about nine months ago called and asked me if the sisters of the Poor Clare's
could visit my shrine because Kevin McCarthy told her I bad a shrine on the property,
the sisters were visiting shrines in the area and wanted to stop by. I
informed her that there was no shrine here and I was not able to accommodate
them to visit because I did not have the facility to. When I spoke to Mr. McCarthy
about my conversation with Sister Mary Catherine, he was furious that I had
spoke to them, and that he wanted them to visit. I told him
I did not have a problem with them visiting but that they would be disappointed
if they came here in anticipation to see a shrine.
We have been recognized as Contemplative Sisters with the
Our Lady of the Nativity Cloister. Again, per the letter of
Alan R. Kershaw, PH.B., J.U.D., 10. Advocate of the Apostolic Tribunal
of the Roman Rota, Sister Joseph Therese aka
Patricia Ann Fuller, is a member of a canonical institute of consecrated religious
life. This letter dated September 6, 2006, addressing her as Sister Mary Joseph
Therese Fuller states:
"Our Lady of the Nativity Convent, once a papal
enclosure at New Riegel,
Please note the wording "living out a religious life
in accordance with Catholic Church Law'.
This confirms my canonical status as a religious under Papal Authority.
I am a religious entitled to be addressed as
Sister. I have never sought dispensation from my permanent vows, which were
accepted by
I am concerned about the term and concept of being dismissed from the
Precious Blood Order. Let it be clarified that the Contemplative Sisters were not
"dismissed" from the Precious Blood Order, but we requested
"separation" at the advice of numerous priests and nuns who evaluated
our cloister and
suggested separation from the active community in order to maintain our
contemplative way of life. Sister Florecita, Sister Mildred,
and myself wrote to The Holy See and sent our rule of
life informing them of our intentions and we received a letter that our
intentions were received in
Paragraph 3.
Regarding reference to founding a new
community of women devoted to the promotion to Our Lady of America.
1 am puzzled why 1 am referred to as Patricia Ann Fuller,
when in our conversation and our meeting on December 13, 2007 that you assured
me that I am still a sister and that you yourself have called me by that title,
as have all other church authorities, especially The Roman :
Sister Mildred Mary Emphrem Neuzil did write a rule for a
new community of women to promote the central doctrine that underlies the whole
message of Our Lady of America, The Divine Indwelling Presence of
the Most Holy Trinity. Steps were taken toward canonical approval of the Rule. Father
Basil Cole is helping me (there was copy of the rule sent to the
A statement was put on the Our Lady of
Sister Joseph Therese C.I.T. makes announcement.
November 2, 2007,
Please note I have never made such a claim, I have not taken in
any nuns and I have
not authorized anyone
to make such a false statement.
Please be aware that I did leave a message for Mr. Langsenkamp on his answering machine as follows; That I wanted him to return all the requests for orders to me and that I was getting help from lay people, and some or my acquaintances, who are mans. This was strictly regarding the shipment orders that had to go out, that people were complaining and that the volunteers were willing to help and get the orders out.
This is another example of Mr. Langsenkamp twisting my words and putting
statements out in the public that I did not authorize. This is
why I asked him to step down, because of his need to falsely promote my
intentions and operations of the devotion.
Paragraph 4
Regarding the letter of Archbishop Burke and the status of
Our Lady of Nativity Convent
The status of Our Lady of Nativity Convent should have no bearing on the
movement, if the movement remains with the Our Lady of America Center in
Since the DVM foundation / Kevin McCarthy, and the
Langsenkamp family apostolate have tried to convince the bishops and the
public that the movement does not need me, I object to this paragraph. I am the
closest living person to Sister Mildred and understand better than anyone else
this mission as she saw it. I am an integral part to the movement to maintain
its purity because of the legal and moral guardianship from adulteration Sister
Millie passed on to me. This effort bas led to defaming me in public over the
internet, in phone conversations, calling me a fraud in legal complaints of
false accusations. You are familiar with Father Borger's visit to me at my
convent, verbally attacking me and the movement as fraud. Who authorized this
harassing visit? Many derogatory
statements have followed these men's assertions that I am not a nun on the Our Lady
of the Immaculate Virgin website, in the state of
It has become necessary to raise some questions that have
arisen in the public and need clarification.
1. Is it correct that no changes whatsoever from the
authentic record of the visionary-distortions, additions, deletion,
interpretations - can be made to messages involved in an apparition? It is to my understanding the answer
is yes.
How then did Kevin McCarthy and Albert Langsenkamp seek
an official opinion letter from Archbishop Burke and deliberately EXCLUDE the
messages printed in 1981 and thereafter following Archbishop Liebold's death. validly copyrighted in 1989, which would not come under the
scope of that opinion letter?
Please
note, while acting as volunteers and working on my behalf,
these men ordered from my printer, without my knowledge and without my authorization,
copies of
the Diary of Messages, deleting the Prayer
to the Indwelling Most Holy Trinity that was a part of the original diary
printed on February 2, 1960 and which is an essential part of the message, the
fundamental doctrine that underlies the whole message.
This is an unconscionable distortion and desecration of the messages.
How do you promote a message of purity when you have changed, deleted and
distorted the whole message as these two men have?
This
is why Sister Mildred has entrusted the guardianship of this message to me.
2. Per a letter
from
Bishop Riken, the bishop of
I have received numerous phone calls that Mr. Langsenkamp
is promoting the idea that the Bishops are making a statement regarding me, and
that he is confident that their (Al and Keven)
allegations will be founded. He also is
assuring the devotees of the by email that he has had several meetings with you
regarding this matter and why he needs to run this devotion, asserting that I
have fooled many people.
That they were asked by the bishops to investigate and needed to
take this in a new direction.
Mr McCarthy makes it well known that they did the
investigation. I believe the faxed info represents his findings.
The
very fax you have sent me are the very allegations they are making in the law
suit, filed on January 16, 2008 in Federal District Court to discredit me.
I
have asked repeatedly to Mr.
Langsenkamp
to return the rubber signature stamp,
and electronic signature stamp that he had made up for
letters to bishops representing me when we worked together at first when I
trusted him. I am concerned that they
might have been or might be used in an unauthorized way.
Is it true that Mr. Langsenkamp has met with you 2 or 3 times?
I have been asking for a meeting with you and now this statement is being made.
This is in the very timing of discovery of their Law Suit
and I find this to be a disastrous attack on my life, personally,
publicly, and most of all because Sister Mildred Mary Neuzil was the same
status as I was. She is also being
taken
to court.
Once again I appeal to you through the council of a very prominent Catholic judge, and other prominent Catholic attorneys, to ask Archbishop Daniel Buechelein, to ask the plaintiffs to drop the civil case and to work with a Catholic mediator as counseled by the Catholic judges and Catholic attorneys to settle this as a Catholic matter, this would show good faith for both parties.
Our Catholic Law counsel said the federal case is a frivolous lawsuit, to frighten and
intimidate three mothers and a Sister.
It has no place in civil court and is entirely a church matter.
Waiting for your Excellency's response
In the Most Holy Trinity and Our Lady of
Sister Mary Joseph Therese, C.I.T.
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