Thursday, June 4, 2026
The Feast of Corpus Christi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M., Prior (603) 239-6485
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SLAVES OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY
PUSH BACK AGAINST FALSE CLAIMS BY THE DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER
With the release of a new report today documenting their relations with Church authorities, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary are pushing back against a false narrative constructed by these same authorities to discredit their apostolate.
The Slaves, located at Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire, are one of the traditional Catholic religious communities descended from the followers of the late Father Leonard Feeney.
Repeated attempts by the Slaves to receive official recognition from the Church have been rebuffed by the Diocese of Manchester, under the leadership of Bishop Peter Libasci and his Judicial Vicar, Father Georges de Laire.
These longstanding, good-faith efforts at reconciliation have been met with draconian canonical measures, a campaign of vilification in the Catholic and secular media, a plethora of wild and unfounded charges, and the false claim that the Holy See has condemned the doctrinal position of the Slaves on the perennial Catholic teaching of extra ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation.
The history of this controversy reveals however, a record of facts which contradicts the false narrative contrived by the leadership of the Manchester Diocese:
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