Catherine Goddard Clarke

Book covers The Saint Benedict Center for ten years of a very interesting history that is sure to open some eyes.

The Saint Benedict Center was founded on the Feast of St. Joseph, 1940, in the Parish of St. Paul in the Archdiocese of Boston. And in 1944 His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, conferred the Apostolic Blessing on the Saint Benedict Center. It wasn't long before the Harvard Catholic Club began meeting at St. Benedict Center on Thursday evenings. The girls from Radcliffe College who invited Father Feeney to join them soon became part of the weekly meetings.

The Saint Benedict Center's initial purpose was to provide religious instruction for the Catholic students of the universities. And the Center became very successful at this. It is also important to note that this was all accomplished in keeping with the instructions and full knowledge of Monsignor Hickey, the parish pastor. With Father Feeney's Thursday nights and Dr. Maluf's Tuesday evening lectures being very popular. And it has the blessing of the Pope and the Archdiocese within which it resides up to and including 1947.

Late 1948, early 1949 the persecution of the Center begins. And it does not come from those outside the Church, but the very Archdiocese that supported it and said they did God's work and the Order of Jesuits. Read the truth that the Church tried to hide. This is a bout between Liberalism and Orthodoxy. A book every Catholic must read.… (más)