APPROVED GROUPS in the Church that hold Fr. Feeney’s position:
In the Diocese of Worcester, there are three religious houses whose members believe and actively defend Father Feeney’s strict defense of “no salvation outside the Church.” Additionally, they all defend Father Feeney’s good name. Those three houses are St. Benedict’s Abbey, St. Ann’s House (the good sisters have no web site), and Saint Benedict Center. The Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey recently wrote a book defending Father Feeney, Harvard to Harvard. He remains a Benedictine Abbot — a prelate of the Catholic Church — in good standing.
The following are their websites:***
http://www.abbey.org/
saintbenedict.com/
sistersofstbenedictcenter.org/
They are listed on the religious order page of the Worcester Diocese:
http://www.worcesterdiocese.org/vicar/ReligiousCommunities/tabid/478/Default.aspx
http://www.worcesterdiocese.org/
Ecclesia Dei Commission on “Feeneyites:
“The question of the doctrine held by the late Father Leonard Feeney is a complex one. He died in full communion with the Church and many of his former disciples are also now in full communion while some are not. We do not judge it opportune to enter into this question.”
Msgr. Camille Perl Secretary, Ecclesia Dei Commission
ewtn.com/library/curia/cedsspx2.htm
Book about Fr. Feeney received Imprimatur:
Brother Thomas Mary Sennott, who was one of Father Feeney’s original followers, wrote a defense of our doctrinal position in his book, They Fought the Good Fight, which was published in 1987. Besides Brother Thomas Mary’s narrative and annotations, the book has long excerpts from Father Feeney’s strongest writings on “no salvation outside the Church.” Significantly, the book bears the Imprimi potest of Bishop Timothy J. Harrington, the Bishop of Worcester. (His Excellency granted this on January 15, 1987, thus indicating that the volume is free of doctrinal or moral error.)
“Feeneyite” made Papal Knight by Pope John Paul II:***
A well-known “Feeneyite” named Charles A. Coulombe
cheetah.net/~ccoulomb/
was created Knight Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester by Pope John Paul II on 1 October, 2004. In other words, a “Feeneyite” is a Papal Knight. Mr. Coulombe is a well-traveled and brilliant scholar and historian.
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