Saint Benedict Center New Hampshire Chapel and Chaplain Approved by Diocese of Manchester

[Tradycja]

catholicism.org/very-good-news-a-new-priest-for-sbc.html

All friends and supporters of Saint Benedict Center are hereby informed that Father David Phillipson has been appointed to serve at Saint Benedict Center, Richmond. Father has been granted faculties by the Bishop of Manchester to offer Mass and hear confessions at the Center’s Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel. Please join the Brothers and Sisters, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in our gratitude to*** Bishop McCormack for approving our chapel as a place of Catholic worship and for allowing Father Phillipson to serve here.***

 

[JM3]

:clapping:

 

[LoyalViews]

Hurrah! Such Wonderful news!
Thank you, Your Lordship Bishop McCormack!

 

[Dale_M]

The Saint Benedict Center was founded by Feeneyites, and as recently as 2004 was not recognized by the Diocese of Manchester:

Feeney was excommunicated in 1953 for disobedience, but the excommunication was lifted by Pope Paul VI in 1972. The St. Benedict Center is now headed by 90-year-old Brother Francis Maluf, who was fired by Boston College in 1949 for his role in what became known as the Boston Heresy Case, in which he and another priest accused the president of Boston College of heresy.

“The St. Benedict Center has no relationship with the Diocese of Manchester, and Bishop [John B.] McCormack has not given them permission to do ministry in New Hampshire,” said Diane Murphy Quinlan, the diocese’s vice chancellor. “They are not in union with the church.”

boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/02/22/cherishing_an_older_catholicism/

I congratulate the Center for its return to the Catholic Church, and hope the presence of Fr. Phillipson will encourage them to remain in orthodoxy.

 

[AnneElliot]

I congratulate the Center for its return to the Catholic Church, and hope the presence of Fr. Phillipson will encourage them to remain in orthodoxy.

I hope you are aware that the SBC’s “return to the Church” (they were already in union with the Church, they were simply not regularized as a community) did NOT include a renunciation of their “Feeneyite” views.

This means that ALL of Fr. Feeney’s spiritual descendants are in full communion with the Church, while STILL retaining his views on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.

This is GREAT news, indeed. Deo gratias for Bishop McCormack!