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ERE ID
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10741
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URL of title group
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catholicism.org
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Stated purpose
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The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are a Congregation of religious brothers and sisters dedicated to a two-fold Crusade: the propagation and defense of Catholic dogma — especially extra ecclesiam nulla salus — and the conversion of America to the one, true Church. Besides the religious members, the Congregation has a Third Order comprised of mostly lay people living in the world.
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Parent organization URL
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Traditional Catholicism, Feeneyism
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Date established
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The group grew out of the Saint Benedict Center, a Boston institution established by Catherine Goddard Clarke in 1940 to support religious education among students.
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Established by
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Catherine Goddard Clarke and Leonard Feeney, a Jesuit priest, poet, and editor. He was later censured by the late Archbishop Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston in 1949 for "grave offenses against the general laws of the Catholic church."
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Membership
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~200 attend weekly mass and ~60 attend daily mass, according to the group's website.
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Location
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Richmond, New Hampshire
A related group, also called Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, is located in Harvard, Massachusetts but is unaffiliated with the NH location.
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Publications about the group
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Richman, Katherine. “Salvation in "Catholic Boston"”, Boston College, 2014.
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http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:103746.
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Feldberg, Michael. "American Heretic: The Rise and Fall of Father Leonard Feeney, S.J." American Catholic Studies, vol. 123 no. 2, 2012, p. 109-115. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/acs.2012.0016.
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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/483741/pdf
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Chadwick, Patricia Walsh. Little Sister: A Memoir. United States, Post Hill Press, 2020.
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Little Sister: A Memoir
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Massa, Mark. “On the Uses of Heresy: Leonard Feeney, Mary Douglas, and the Notre Dame Football Team.” The Harvard Theological Review, vol. 84, no. 3, 1991, pp. 325–41. JSTOR.
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/1510022.
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Perceived enemies
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Jews, the LGBTQ+ community, non-Catholics, mainstream Christians, divorce, birth control, abortion, and in some cases, public education.
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Key URLs about the group -- not by the group
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Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
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Leonard Feeney
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https://dlib.bc.edu/islandora/object/bc-ir:103746https://muse.jhu.edu/article/483741/pdf, https://www.amazon.com/Little-Sister-Patricia-Walsh-Chadwick/dp/1682617823, https://www.facebook.com/SistersMICM/, http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1386, http://www.catholicism.org/trouble-with-truth.html, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/religious-cult-patricia-chadwick-memoir-little-sister/
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Primary source
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Reconquest Radio Show
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“Reconquest” is a militant, engaging, and informative Catholic radio program featuring interviews with interesting guests as well as commentary by your host, Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.
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Outsider views of the group
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The Roman Catholic Church declared the question of the the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary's Catholic legitimacy closed in 2016, concluding that it is "erroneous and contrary" to Church theology and practice. Faithful Roman Catholics are urged by the Vatican "not to participate."
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Dehumanizing speech by group
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"Jewish tendency to undermine public morals"
"There's a misperception that Hitler had a position to kill all the Jews. It's all a fraud. Six million people...it didn't occur."
"Rainbow Gestapo" of "Intolerant homosexual thought-crimes thugs who want to enforce their wicked lavender agenda on the world."
"rid our city of every coward liberal Catholic, Jew dog, Protestant brute, and 33rd degree Mason who is trying to suck the soul from good Catholics and sell the true faith for greenbacks."
"The Catholic institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth conferred honorary degrees upon, and hosted as commencement speakers, proponents of abortion, abortion tainted vaccines, contraception and the social acceptance of sodomy."
