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Most Holy Family Monastery is a non-profit sedevacantist organization run by Michael Dimond. The Roman Catholic Church opposes it and its positions. Roman Catholic laymen rebut their theological claims, point by point. The diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, condemns them as anti-Catholic. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights commented on their January, 2009, pamphlet attacking Pope John Paul II as a heretic, chiefly ecumenicism. The Catholic League is a lay organization, separate from the church, but endorsed by a number of American Archbisops. It describes its mission as advocacy, like the ADL or NAACP.

History
It was founded in 1967, in Berlin, New Jersey, by a self-proclaimed Benedictine monk named Joseph Natale (born 1933), originally as a community for handicapped men. Natale entered the Benedictine Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1960 as a lay postulant, but left less than a year later to start his own Holy Family Monastery. According to an archivist of the Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Natale left before taking vows; he never actually became a Benedictine monk.

Throughout the late 1960's and early 1970's, Natale denounced the Second Vatican Council and the New Mass, and by the mid-1970s the community had become separate from the Conciliar Church. By mid-1980s, there were ten monks in it, but by 1994 the number declined to three. Shortly after a conference in 1994, John Vennari left to work for Fr. Nicholas Gruner.

Natale died in 1995, and Michael (official name Frederick Dimond, who joined at the age of 19 in 1992, was elected the Superior. Soon after, he relocated to Granger, New York (close to Fillmore, New York), where Natale owned 90+ acres of donated land and intended to move to.

Natale himself was never a sedevacantist, although his successor Michael Dimond turned to that position in 1998 or 1999, after he expelled one of the members of MHFM, Richard Ibranyi, in 1997, for being a sedevacantist. Shortly after, Frederick's biological brother Peter Dimond (official name Robert ) joined the monastery.

Influence
Dimond advertises his website for a vast amount of keywords via Google Ads. There are not any other traditionalist groups that agree 100% with them. Formerly, Dimond supported Gerry Matatics when he held their positions.

Doctrinal

 * The belief that holds that people can be saved in invincible ignorance of the Catholic religion is outright heresy, and Baptism of desire and Baptism of blood is heresy for those who have seen the evidence provided by them (Justification/Salvation by Desire alone is heresy), See EENS
 * Justification cannot happen without Baptism of water.
 * It is heresy to claim that the Vatican II popes are not anti-popes after having seen the evidence of their numerous heresies.
 * Co-Redeemer (Co-Redemptrix) is not a fitting title for Our Lady,

Moral

 * Natural Family Planning is sinful birth control
 * Homosexual orientation is a result of demonic takeover because of frequent mortal sins of impurity
 * Rock music is inspired by the devil
 * A Catholic should receive the sacraments of Confession and Eucharist from Byzantine priests or other priests who were validly ordained but is not imposing about their heresy of denying the EENS dogma and Sedevacantism.
 * Habitual smoking is a sin

Regarding modern Catholicism

 * Communists and Freemasons infiltrated the Catholic Church to overthrow it.
 * Siri Thesis
 * John Paul II is The Antichrist,
 * Post Vatican II hierarchy is the Whore of Babylon in the Apocalypse,
 * Sedevacantism: The Vatican II popes are antipopes (From John XXIII to Benedict XVI)
 * The New Mass is the Abomination of Desolation – and the First Four Vatican II Antipopes parallel the Four False High Priests at the time of the Abomination of Desolation in the Machabees,
 * The Consecration of Russia as requested by Our Lady of Fatima has been already done by Pius XII, although not with all the bishops as was requested, and that the conversion of Russia means that it will be converted to a period of peace, not converted to Catholicism as commonly thought.

Holocaust denial
The MHFM criticizes Pope Benedict XVI's strong stance against Holocaust deniers and condemns Bernard Fellay for silencing denial among Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) members.

Religious practices
Because none of them were ever ordained, and they believe that the New Mass is invalid and a false worship, they receive the sacraments from a Byzantine rite Catholic Church that is in communion with Benedict XVI, in Rochester, New York, in layman's clothes in lieu of their Benedictine habits for this occasion. Peter Dimond wrote: "In receiving the sacraments from certain Byzantine priests for over the last decade – i.e. from priests who are not notorious or imposing about their heresies – I've received what I consider to be tremendous spiritual graces."

Their daily prayer life includes praying the 15 decade Rosary and a few prayers to certain saints such as St. Benedict and St. Philomena.

Claims of miraculous experience

 * According to Michael Cuneo, who researched the various traditional movements in the USA, Natale claimed that he had the gift of prophecy in these words:

"Even before Vatican II was finished, I knew, and knew absolutely, that it was part of a Communist conspiracy to destroy the Church. The bishops at the council wanted to democratize Catholicism, they wanted an egalitarian theology, and most of them were secret communists and Masons. They knew exactly what they were doing. My community here was the first one in the United States to see the council for what it really was, and we rejected it completely. Regardless of what you have been told, John Paul I did not die of natural causes. He was murdered. Shortly after his election I went into a kind of trance and was told that John Paul I would be murdered because he wanted to return the Church to its traditions. He was murdered by his own. The Communist infiltrators in the Vatican and the College of Cardinals, working together with the Masons, killed John Paul I. At the same time I also had a vision of John Paul II, and I was told that he would be the next pope and also that he would be an authentic pope, even though most of his actions would be controlled by Communist advisers and manipulators in the Vatican. Five years [from 1994] is about all the time the world has left."


 * A former member claimed that he heard angels singing when he joined the monastery.


 * Michael Dimond claimed in an interview with George Noory that he was attacked numerous times physically by invisible demonic force, by:
 * Paralyzing, pushing, jamming, and attempting to crushing the head
 * Making frightening sounds of some growling of a dog in his room, and causing sound of huge crash from behind when there's nothing there.

Criticisms

 * Ibranyi criticized the MHFM for not holding Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus to its full extent. MHFM holds that people who were raised in Protestantism are Catholics erring in good faith until they are acquainted with Catholic dogmas, contrary to what Orestes Brownson and Michael Müller taught: that Protestant children become Protestants (and hence are outside of the Church) as soon as they reach the age of reason.
 * Ruby (a traditionalist) wrote against Peter Dimond regarding baptism of desire: http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/08Jul/jul7str.htm
 * He claims that a prophecy made by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa is made by St. Nicholas of Flue
 * He claims a prophecy purportedly made by Pope Leo XIII

Current Members

 * Michael Dimond
 * Peter Dimond.
 * Sister Anne (One sister in a new convent)

Former Members

 * John Vennari
 * Richard Ibranyi

Recent defectors

 * "Edmund" Eric Hoyle: The technical producer for the audio programs and English-to-Spanish translator. He also moderated the Sedevacantism debate the Dimonds had with William Golle. After being persuaded that it is sinful to go to a Byzantine Mass in communion with the mainstream Catholic Church, he left on December 31, 2007, with two others. Then he sued Frederick (Michael) and Robert (Peter) Dimond.


 * Joseph Myers: a Protestant convert who claimed to have heard angels sing when he arrived at the Most Holy Family Monastery. He left together with Hoyle, although he regretted the choice.