Author Archives: Sr. Catherine Goddard Clark, M.I.C.M.
Our Glorious Popes
Dedication St. Peter through St. Leo the Great (33-461) Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604) Pope St. Martin I (649-654) Pope St. Zachary (741-752) Pope St. Leo III (795-816) Pope St. Gregory VII (1073-1085) Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) Pope Boniface VIII (1294-1303) Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914) The lives and times of Holy Roman Pontiffs who saved the Church during great … More →
Charlemagne and the Finding of the Body of St. Anne
The following will no doubt be taken by some as a Baroque — or worse, Romantic — example of an unenlightened and backward Catholic fascination with legend. So be it.
The Pontificate of Pope Saint Leo the Great
Almost six years after the death of Saint Athanasius, in the pontificate of the glorious Pope, Saint Damasus - the patron of Saint Jerome in his biblical studies — there came to the imperial throne in the East, the great Emperor Theodosius I. In the first year of his reign, in the winter of 379, Theodosius was instructed in the Catholic Faith and baptized by … More →
The Life of Saint Gregory the Great
Pope Saint Gregory the Great not only saved the Church, in times so frightful that the men who lived in them were sure that the end of the world was come, but he founded the great civilization which has lasted down to our day and of which we are part, Western Civilization. All alone, in the midst of famine and pestilence, floods and earthquakes, endangered … More →
Love is the Spirit of Truth
(written in 1948) Mr. Daniel Sargent has written a classic biography called Thomas More . If anyone should know about Utopia, it would be Sargent.
Gate of Heaven
To those qui mecum fuerunt in exiliis There seems to be no end to the number of reasons people can give for not facing the doctrine of the necessity of belonging to the Catholic Church for salvation. “It is not the Church’s doctrine,” is the first difficulty. “It is the Church’s doctrine,” we answer. “None of the priests around here hold it,” they make reply. … More →
The Failure of Interfaith
(later known as Sister Catherine, M.I.C.M.) Introduction by Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. Sister Catherine, M.I.C.M., foundress of Saint Benedict Center, wrote “The Failure of Interfaith” almost four decades ago, more than 15 years before the ecumenical onslaught that commenced after Vatican II. She was a woman of great intuition, perceiving effectively that if the interfaith movement went unchecked, the Church would have much to suffer.
The Loyolas and the Cabots
Introduction This book is going to press one year after the people of the United States, and eventually the people of the world were shocked by, a stubborn profession of faith made on the part of some Boston Catholics, who were at once silenced and interdicted by the ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authorities in what has come to be known far and wide as the “Boston Heresy … More →
































