Your prayers are requested for the repose of the soul of Thomas Richard Costello, born January 11, 1924 in Atchison, Kansas and died January 13, 2010. He passed away peacefully in the Oklahoma City home of his daughter, Ann Culberston, after a lengthy illness with congestive heart failure. Tom was the fourth of ten children, father of nine, grandfather of 26, and great-grandfather of eight. He loved life and could best be described as a "live wire" and a "people person."

Tom's great passions were his love of his traditional Catholic faith, his wife, his large family, and his free country. At age 18 he served in the U.S. Navy as a First Lieutenant aboard L.S.T.1068 in the Pacific arena during World War II.

He will be most remembered for his controversial struggles to preserve the traditional Catholic Tridentine Mass, confirmed for all time in 1570 A.D. at the behest of the Council of Trent.

Most of the foregoing is extracted from Tom’s obituary. I first met him in late 1991. His wife, Norma kept describing us as two peas in a pod. The resemblance was not physical, as can be determined by watching our DVD, “Catholics, Where Has Our Church Gone?” on this website. We shared a working knowledge of our religion and a well-developed B.S. meter, which we had no trouble applying to the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath. We have lost a classic warrior.

He reacted early because his diocese, for its Bible Belt environment, was the stalking horse for ecumania.