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Brother André Marie

About Brother André Marie

A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Brother Andre Marie graduated from that city's Holy Cross School in 1988. He went on to study at Louisiana State University's (LSU) main campus in Baton Rouge, on full scholarship as a music major. After three years at LSU, he transferred to Holy Apostles College and Seminary, in Cromwell, Connecticut, where he took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spring of 1993 (major in Humanities with a minor in Philosophy). In September of 2007, he received the degree of Master of Arts in Theology, Summa cum Laude, also from Holy Apostles.

He entered as a postulant for the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in May of 1993, and went on to the novitiate on Christmas of that year. He made profession of vows on Epiphany of 1996.

Since 1993, he was mentored in philosophy and theology by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M., Ph.D., a published philosopher of note.

His apostolic work has included various facets of the publishing apostolate of the congregation. For ten years, he was also part of the community's small "mission band" of brothers who traveled to different cities distributing literature to interested persons in an effort to spread the Catholic Faith and bring wayward Catholics back to a sacramental life. He oversaw that apostolate for four years.

He has edited three of the Order's books, published dozens of articles, and presented numerous lectures in apologetics, the history of doctrine, the Church's ecumenical councils, ecclesiology, and devotional topics. He is currently giving lectures on making America Catholic as part of the "Catholic America Tour."

Since 2002, he has been Prior of St. Benedict Center, an apostolate of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Richmond, New Hampshire.

Past memberships include the Knights of Columbus, the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Brother maintains a weblog called Brother André Marie’s Theology Blog.

He maintains contact via Linkedin and Facebook.

SSPX Leadership Condemns Leaks

(DICI) An exchange of private letters between the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X and the three other bishops was circulated on the Internet on May 9, 2012. This behavior is reprehensible. The person who breached the confidentiality of this internal correspondence committed a serious sin. Read more…


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“Social Media” and Our Youth

From a Sunday bulletin… Because of the Center’s electronic publishing and online evangelical activities, I am somewhat familiar with the “social media.” The internet giant Facebook is now used by “901 million monthly active users at the end of March 2012,” or so they claim. Among those users are people in our community, including some of our youth. It bears repeating that any and all … More →


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Joseph Pierce on Roy Campbell

Joseph Pearce recalls the extraordinary life of Roy Campbell, who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from anticlerical Spanish militiamen. As you read Pierce’s piece, recall that here in the good old U S of A, people were led to believe that the good guys in this war were the ones that murdered priests, brothers, nuns, and Catholic laity. The bad guys, according to … More →


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Ed Rogers Skeptical on Obama’s SS Marriage ‘Evolution’

The President says that his thinking about same-sex “marriage” has evolved. Writing for the WaPo, Ed Rogers suspects a cynical political motive: Reality check: Obama manipulated gay voters, kept them at a distance and hoped they would settle for the occasional wink and a nod. But he has found himself in a campaign with dwindling enthusiasm and a narrowing electoral map; he needs this group’s … More →


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Chicoms Open Banks in US

(AFP) The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary of Bank of … More →


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Liechtenstein: Prince Alois Threatens to Veto Abortion Law

Liechtenstein’s Hereditary Prince Alois, a Catholic, has threatened to use his constitutional powers to veto a law allowing abortion in his tiny Alpine nation. This has led some to call for a referendum to remove the Hereditary Prince’s constitutional veto powers, which, in turn, has provoked the Prince to threaten withdrawal from the nation’s political life entirely. But: Wilfried Marxer, a political scientist and director … More →

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Vatican Tells UN to Respect Parental Rights and Homeschooling

(The New American) As some totalitarian-minded governments escalate their attacks on parental rights and homeschooling, the Vatican’s delegation to the United Nations called on the world to respect families, the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, and non-governmental forms of education. The Holy See’s representatives also called on governments last week to stop indoctrinating the youth. Read more…


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In Praise of Holy Desires

It is not true to say that the disciples of Father Feeney are against desire.1 Our public witness is directed toward bringing people to believe the true Faith, and to desire to enter Christ’s Body, the Catholic Church. God Himself, who inspires holy desires, will see to it that they are fulfilled (cf. Phil. 1:6). Desire, simply considered, is a motion toward a good we … More →


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May/June 2012 Mancipia

The May/June Mancipia is now posted (scroll down for PDF). Back issues of this newsletter are linked from our downloads page. If you would like to receive our bi-monthly newsletter via U.S. mail, please sign up to get it regularly. Mancipia May/June 2012


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Mandeville, the Frankfurt School, and Yves Simon on Authority and Liberty

A Counterpoint to Bernard Mandeville’s Deceitful Doctrine of Man and to the Frankfurt School’s Irrational Dialectical Anthropology: The Frigid Equivocations, Psycho-Cultural Subversion, Seductive Despair. A Commentary on Two Revolutionary and Neo-Sophist Texts of the Frankfurt School and the British Tavistock Institute, Respectively: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944, 1947); and The Dialectics of Liberation (1967, 1968, 1969) – Considered in the Longer Light of Bernard Mandeville’s “Fable … More →


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Pope Hopes Catholic Americans Will Revive the Church?

THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT:  “In a stunning announcement on Monday, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (via the apostolic nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano) has just laid the heaviest burden in 2,000 years on the shoulders of Catholic Americans.  Realizing that Christianity in Europe is beyond recovery, the Holy Father has called upon the U.S. Catholic Church to ‘lead the way’ in revival … More →


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Calling All Eastern-Rite Catholics!

Mr. Gregory Lloyd, a Ukrainian Rite Catholic, is the director of the Pilgrimage for Restoration. The Pilgrimage has been a very “Latin” event; i.e., all of the Masses and most of the faithful on pilgrimage are of the traditional Roman Rite. Greg hopes to broaden the event’s horizons by organizing a brigade of Eastern Catholics (of whatever rite) to make pilgrimage. Thus would the true … More →


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Saint Augustine on Friendship

Thanks to Scribd, we now have a better way of posting PDF files on Catholicism.org. As a “test run,” I’m posting an older piece, a paper on St. Augustine’s notions of Christian friendship. It has become one of the more popular pieces on the Internet on the subject. This paper was written in preparation for a talk at the 2006 Saint Benedict Center Conference. My … More →

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Lady Marines to Front?

Chivalry may not be dead, but it’s in critical condition. (The New York Times) The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer school at Quantico, Va., and ground combat battalions that had once been closed to women. Read more… Be it noted that the Germanic and Hibernian … More →


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Honoring the First Amerindian Saint

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha is scheduled to be canonized on October 21, 2012. Less than a month before that, she will be honored by the pilgrims walking the annual “Pilgrimage for Restoration” to Auriesville, New York. Below, I reproduce a press release that explains this year’s theme, which explicitly mentions the holy Mohawk virgin every Catholic American should love. In promoting this worthwhile event, I feel … More →


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