Month: October 2016

Who Was Monsignor Umberto Benigni?

“Umberto Benigni was a Catholic priest and Church historian, who was born on 30 March 1862 in Perugia, Italy and died on 27 February 1934 in Rome. A lecturer in Church history from 1885, one year after his ordination to the priesthood, he also engaged in journalism, at first locally, and became in 1893 editor…


Mission Statement

“In reaction to the movement within the Roman Catholic Church known as Modernism, Pope [St.] Pius X issued in 1907 the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis and the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu, which condemned the movement as a heresy. To ensure enforcement of these decisions, Monsignor Umberto Benigni organized, through his personal contacts with theologians, an…