Slaves
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary refers
to a number of different religious communities which all trace their roots to
the St. Benedict Center,
founded in 1940 by Catherine Goddard
Clarke in Harvard Square, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
In
1945, Leonard Feeney became
chaplain of the center. Clarke and Feeney formed the Slaves of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary, an independent Catholic community. The group relocated to Still River,
a village in the town of Harvard, Massachusetts.
After
Clarke's death, around 1968, the group separated into three groups: the St.
Benedict Abbey, the Sisters of St. Benedict Center, Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saint Anne's House), and the Slaves of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary of Saint Benedict Center. In the mid-1980s, a fourth group split
from the latter and founded a separate self-identified Catholic community
in New Hampshire.
History
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
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In
1940, Catherine Goddard
Clarke and several associates founded the St. Benedict Center
in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a student center for students
attending college in the Boston area. Leonard Feeney, S.J., became chaplain at the
center in 1945. Feeney held rigid views regarding the doctrine Extra Ecclesiam
nulla salus ("outside the Church there is no
salvation"). Feeney criticized Boston Archbishop Richard Cardinal Cushing for, among other
things, accepting the church's definition of "baptism of desire".
Lionel. Fr.Leonard
Feeney held the traditional teaching on extra
ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) as defined by three Church Councils, which did
not mention any exceptions. For him there were no literal cases of the baptism
of desire. So the baptism of desire was not relevant or an exception for EENS.
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In
January 1949, a number of individuals who attended the center formed, under
Feeney's guidance, an unofficial religious community. That same year, Cushing
declared the St. Benedict's Center off-limits to Catholics.[1] Boston College and Boston College High
School dismissed four of the center's members from the theology
faculty for promoting Feeney's version of Extra Ecclesiam doctrine
in their classrooms, and after they had sent a letter to the administration
accusing the theology department of teaching heresy
Lionel. Cardinal
Richard Cushing and the Jesuits in Boston interpreted the baptism of desire as referring
to physically visible cases, known people saved outside the Church. This
objective error was inserted in the 1949 Letter of the Holy Office (CDF) to the
Archbishop of Boston relative to Fr. Leonard Feneey. We call this today Cushingism. It says invisible cases are visible as opposed to Feeneyism which says
invisible cases in the present times are simply invisible. This is common
sense.
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In
light of his controversial behavior, Feeney's Jesuit superiors ordered him to leave the
center for a post at the College of the Holy
Cross, but he repeatedly refused, which led to his expulsion from
the order. Cushing suspended Feeney's
priestly faculties in April 1949; Feeney continued to celebrate
the sacraments, although he was no longer authorized
to do so.[4] After Feeney
repeatedly refused to reply to a summons to Rome to explain himself, he
was excommunicated on
February 13, 1953, by the Holy See for
persistent disobedience to Church authority.[1]
Lionel. Fr.Leonard
Feneey knew there were no literal cases of the baptism of desire. This was
confirmed a few years back by Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Dr. Taylor Marshall.
Instead it was the CDF and the hierarchy at Boston who were innovative and irrational, with Ccushingism a new doctrine in the Church. This was the new theology. It
says outside the Church there is known salvation in the present times.
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Still River,
Massachusetts
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Increasingly
isolated in the Boston Catholic community, in January 1958, the group moved
from Cambridge to
a farm in the town of Harvard in
Worcester County, where they settled. With the death of Clarke in 1968, the
group began to fragment.[5] Feeney died
later, in 1978. The Still River property split among three groups,[6] which are now
reconciled with the Catholic Church:
·
St.
Benedict Abbey (Massachusetts), a member of the Swiss-American
Congregation of Benedictine monasteries.[7][8]
·
Sisters of St.
Benedict Center, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saint Anne's
House), canonically recognized
by the Catholic Church as a religious community in the diocese of
Worcester.[9]
·
The Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary of Saint Benedict Center, Still River,
Massachusetts, which Bishop McManus raised
to a Public Association of the
Faithful in the diocese of Worcester in 2017.[10]
Immaculate Heart of
Mary School
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Chapel,
Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Still River, MA
Immaculate
Heart of Mary School is a private school located on the Saint Benedict Center
property. It was established in 1976[11] and
accommodates about 135 students in grades 1–12.[12] Every school
day begins with the Latin Tridentine Mass.[13]
Richmond, New
Hampshire
After
an internal electoral struggle, and having lost a suit in civil court to
compel his superiorship over the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of
Saint Benedict Center,[6] Dr. Fakhri
Boutros Maluf, who had taken the name Brother Francis, left the Slaves of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary of Saint Benedict Center and founded a splinter group
in Richmond, New
Hampshire, as "founding superior"[6][14] in the
mid-1980s. Maluf was a Melkite by ascription.[14] Maluf's group
is named Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Saint Benedict Center.[15] It includes
The Brothers, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and The Sisters, Slaves of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary.[16]
The
Saint Benedict Center has a 200-acre complex and by 2004, between 200 and 300
people were attending Mass at the church on the Lord's Day.[16] Since 1989,
several families have moved to area in order to be within close proximity of
the Saint Benedict Center.[16]
The
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary located in Richmond, New Hampshire, has
no official recognition by the Catholic Church.[17][18] Of all the
groups that embraced the thought of Fr. Feeney, that of Richmond is "the
most radical faction" according to the Southern Poverty
Law Center.[19] The Southern Poverty
Law Center (SPLC) classifies the center in Richmond, as well
as the group's publishing arm Immaculate Heart Media, as an anti-Semitic hate group.[20][19] The SPLC
wrote that the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary "continue to endorse
Feeney and to defend him from charges of anti-Semitism, despite his
well-documented hatred of the Jews" and noted that in 2004, Bishop
McCormack had rebuked the group as "blatantly anti-Semitic", and that
in 2005, a brother of the Slaves had given a speech calling out the
"Jewish nation" as "the perpetual enemy of Christ."[20] The center
denies being anti-Semitic.[21][19]
In
January 2019, the vicar for canonical affairs for the Roman
Catholic Diocese of Manchester stated that the group had been
directed to stop representing themselves as Catholic.
Lionel: This was political. Since the community accepts Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church and interpret them only rationally and so honestly. They also accept Pope Francis as the pope. For them invisible and hypothetical cases of Lumen Gentium 16 are not exceptions for Feeneyite EENS.
Yet this was the irrational interpretation of Vatican Council II by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Vatican, during the schism-trial of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.An appeal has been made to foreign embassies at the Vatican, to ask Pope Francis and the DCF to interpret Vatican Council II ethically and do justice to Archbishop Carlo Vigano.
They do not
consider the Catechism of the Catholic Church (847-848-invincible ignorance
etc) as being exceptions for the Catechism of the Catholic Church (845-846-outsuide
the Church there is no salvation).Invisible people cannot be visible exceptions for the dogma EENS.
Also physically invisible
cases of LG 8, 14, 15, 16, UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 etc in Vatican Council II do not
contradict Ad Gentes 7, which says all need faith abd baptism for salvation.
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The
diocese published a clarification of the status of the Slaves of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary and the St. Benedict Center, declaring that they were neither
approved by the diocese nor considered to be Catholic.
Lionel: The diocese
also accepts Vatican Council II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church but
interprets LG 8,14,15,16,UR 3, NA 2, GS 22 as practical exceptions for the
dogma EENS. This is irrational Cushingism
The diocese also
interprets, like the CDF; Vatican, Catechism of the Catholic Church 847-848 as being objective exceptions
for CCC 845-846.This is heretical Cushingism. It is schism with the Magisterium before 1949.
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The
diocese and Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome found
"unacceptable" the teachings of the St. Benedict Center, such as
preaching that only Catholics can go to Heaven. That
same document further states that priests are forbidden to say Mass at
any church or chapel owned by the St. Benedict Center or
the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.[24]
Lionel: Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7) says all need faith and baptism. AG 7
indicates that in Heaven there are only Catholics. Ad Gentes 7 is cited in the
Catechism of the Catholic Church 846, under the title Outside the Church there
is no salvation.
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Out
of pastoral concern
for those who work, live at, or reside near the Saint Benedict Center, the
bishop of Manchester arranged for the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Mass at the Saint
Stanislaus Church in Winchester.[25] The group was
further directed to amend its IRS 501(c)(3), filing to remove any representation
that it was affiliated with the Catholic Church.[26]
Lionel: The group
claims they are affiliated with Tradition and the traditional teachings of the
Catholic Church and not necessarily with the diocese of Manchester, NH and the
Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith who interpret the Creeds,
Councils and Catechisms with the false premise, with Cushingism.
The group appealed to the Vatican to lift the precepts of prohibition placed upon them. In February 2021, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith held that the appeal had not been completed before the statute of limitations ran out, therefore the group must conform with the precepts
-Lionel Andrades
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