About Robert McKenna
Lived 1927 – 2015 (aged 88). Robert McKenna was an American catholic priest, exorcist, religious leader and bishop.
Biography
McKenna was consecrated a bishop on 22 August 1986, in Raveau, France, by the French sedeprivationist Bishop Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers .
He died at the age of 88 on 16 December 2015. The sermon at his funeral was preached by Donald Sanborn.
Exorcist An exorcism he performed in 1985 in Warren, Massachusetts was featured in the Boston Herald and later recounted by the same reporters in the book Satan's Harvest. A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Hartford, said that whatever ritual was performed on the boy was not sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church and therefore could not be called an exorcism.
Furthermore, he believes that "the official establishment does not believe in the Devil ... but the Devil believes in them. They do not believe, and when they do, they don't want to get involved."
Public stand According to McKenna, the successors of Pope Pius XII have attempted to put the heresy of ecumenism in place of Catholicism by teaching that men have a natural right to worship as they see fit. Referring to this heresy as "a spiritual insanity", he wrote in an article "On Keeping Catholic": Now while the Popes of Vatican II, including the present Benedict XVI, can function on the purely natural level in running the Church as an organization or legal corporation, they have on the supernatural level - in view of their spiritual madness - no divine authority to speak for the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ or to govern the faithful in His name; no power, that is to say, to function precisely as the Vicar of Christ for so long as this insanity continues. They and the bishops under them, blindly following them, are lacking the jurisdiction they would otherwise have under normal circumstances. We must simply ignore them and carry on as best as we can without them. Concerning the bishops who are in union with Rome, he published a similar view in 1980: Practically all bishops who are not definitely heretics are at least gravely suspect of heresy by reason of the sacrilegious outrages they have tolerated in their dioceses. As a consequence, they have either lost their jurisdiction or possess a very doubtful jurisdiction, and Canon Law itself expressly supplies priests jurisdiction in such cases.
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Frequently asked questions
Who was Robert McKenna?
Roman Catholic bishop (1927–2015)
When was Robert McKenna born?
Robert McKenna was born on 8 July 1927 in Danville.
When did Robert McKenna die?
Robert McKenna died on 16 December 2015 in Michigan.
What was Robert McKenna's occupation?
Robert McKenna was a catholic priest, exorcist, religious leader and bishop.
What nationality was Robert McKenna?
Robert McKenna was American.
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