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Father Feeney was a priest of the Society of Jesus until, in 1949, he co-founded the religious order, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Mancipia Immaculati Cordis Mariae), whose acronym is MICM.

This priest was a defender of the unchangeable traditional teaching/doctrine of the Catholic Church. Read More »

We will tell the history of the Center in a question-and-answer format.

How did Saint Benedict Center begin?
In 1940, a prominent Catholic laywoman, Catherine Goddard Clarke, sought permission of the then Archbishop of Boston, William Cardinal O’Connell, to establish an educational oasis of Catholic truth close to the renowned secular universities that dominated the area. The cardinal agreed to the project, admonishing Mrs. Clarke to “teach the Faith without compromise.” So it was that Saint Benedict Center quietly came into existence that year at the intersection of Bow and Arrow Streets in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Read More »

In the February 2010 issue of Catholic Family News is an excellent article by Editor John Vennari, entitled: “Blessed Abbot Marmion and the Centrality of Christ.” Starting deservedly on the front page, this is taken from a speech Mr. Vennari has given in various places throughout our country, and even once in India. Read More »

Anne Hathaway, who stars in silly movies, has left the Catholic Church because her brother, Thomas, has come out of the closet as a sodomite. Now, we don’t generally look to Hollywood for heroic professions of the apostolic faith. No, when it comes to religion, we’re generally used to celebs making magnanimous fools of themselves. On this score, Anne does not at all disappoint: Read More »

First published in 1984, and more recently updated, Brother Leonard Mary’s analytical commentary and reference book, The Church of Salvation, is back in print. As a loyal and original disciple of Father Feeney, and, actually, of all the members of the order of Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Sister Catherine excepted) the one who knew Father the longest, Brother Leonard Mary has acquired an abundance of knowledge in his sixty years of religious life and seventy year association with Saint Benedict Center. He relocated to California with one other brother a few years after the death of Father Feeney (1978) and founded what he delighted to call the “Saint Benedict Center, West Coast.” There are now three brothers at that house, and they do excellent work for the Faith. Read More »

We are in the midst of the Chair of Unity Octave. This is a good time for some considerations on what constitutes true Church unity and why it is so important.

The fundamental truth concerning Christian unity seems, in these days of profound confusion, to be the best kept secret in all of Christendom. Christian unity can only be attained in the Catholic Church, which is where it has existed, does exist, and will exist from the time Christ established His Church until the General Judgment. I know that’s a long sentence, and to some it may even appear to be a contradiction. How can we attain to something that has existed for two millenia? Read More »

Dr. Jeff Mirus has an article in the Commentary section of his Catholic Culture website called “The Coming of Christ in the Flesh,” in which he attempts to convince a biblical fundamentalist that people need not have explicit knowledge of, and divine Faith in, Christ in order to be saved. He says that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church, which Christ founded upon Saint Peter, and that, without the guidance of this magisterium, the Bible can be misinterpreted, even on so basic a teaching as whether or not explicit faith in Christ is necessary for salvation. Read More »

More pro-Father Feeney and pro-extra ecclesiam nulla salus blogs are showing up on the Internet. I have recently been made aware of three of them, and noticed that they have some excellent postings and links. Regular readers know that it is our Crusade (the word is a deliberate one) to spread knowledge of this important dogma, and to work for the conversion of America to the Catholic Faith. Read More »

Audio Sancto has posted a stunning and arresting sermon on “our” doctrine: Salvation is Only in the Catholic Church. This sermon is preached by a Catholic priest in good standing, one who is not a Slave of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. His direct, no-nonsense approach to Catholic dogma is especially refreshing in these days of equivocation and spiritual pusillanimity. Some may think it’s only the “Feeneyites” that preach this doctrine so emphatically. Thank God we’re not alone, but the world could use more priests to preach like this. After all, it’s not just “our” doctrine, it’s the Church’s doctrine.

I’m not a regular reader of The American Spectator, but a friend recently handed me a one-page column appearing in that magazine’s October edition (pg. 82, to be exact). The piece, “Robert Novak, RIP,” was penned by the journal’s editor, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Apparently, the recently deceased Mr. Novak was a secular Jew, but the gritty conservative journalist converted to Catholicism toward the end of his life.

Take note, gentle reader, of what occasioned his conversion: Read More »