Category: ORTHODOXY

Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate

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2009 Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate at 70th Ordination Anniversary
2009 Sister St. Henry Moloney and Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate at my 70th Ordination Anniversary
2009 Sr St Henry SOLI at my 70th Ordination Anniversary
2009 Sister St. Henry SOLI at my 70th Ordination Anniversary
Letter from Sr St Henry
Letter from + Sr St Henry and her memorial card

Sister St. Henry Moloney was the sister of Fr. Oliver Moloney.  She spent many years in Missionary work and spoke perfect Spanish. She helped found of the Sisters of Our Lady Immaculate.  My friend Fr. Oliver Moloney and I visited her at their Marian Residence Retirement Home in Cambridge Ontario when we were driving to the first Call to Holiness Conference in the USA in 1990s.

http://www.calltoholiness.com

http://solisisters.ca/marian-cambridge.html

Sr. St. Henry died in 2013. She was was a bright and cheerful religious Sister:

http://solisisters.ca/blog/2013/09/05/we-will-miss-you-mother-st-henry/

Here is more information about vocations to her religious congregation:

http://solisisters.ca/bsacrament.html

Sr. St. Henry’s father, Dr. Peter Moloney, lived to be 98 years old.  He was an eminent Canadian scientist of world renown who in 1922 was the first to purify safe Insulin. I once had dinner with Dr. Moloney and his son, my confessor, Fr. Oliver Moloney.

Dogs are smart

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 I received the message below from a friend today and would like to share it:

“We, Catholics, believe in the Real Presence…  But still, when we come across a miracle confirming this Truth, our Catholic souls always rejoice.  I read this many years ago and I have kept this to share with you today. The story I read was from Father Albert J. Byrne, and the title of the article was Nature’s Evidence of the Real Presence.

Here is the story as it was printed:

On the evening of the last day of his October 1995 visit to the United States, Pope John Paul II was scheduled to greet the seminarians at Saint Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. It had been a very full day that began with a Mass at Oriole Park in Camden Yards; a parade through downtown streets; a visit to the Basilica of the Assumption, the first cathedral in the country; lunch at a local soup kitchen run by Catholic Charities; a prayer service at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore; and finally a quick stop at Saint Mary’s Seminary.

The schedule was tight so the plan was simply to greet the seminarians while they stood outside on the steps. But the Pope made his way through their ranks and into the building. His plan was to first make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament. When his wishes were made known, security  flew into action. They swept the building, paying close attention to the chapel where the Pope would be praying. For this purpose, highly trained dogs were used to detect any person who might be present.

The dogs are trained to locate survivors in collapsed buildings after earthquakes and other disasters. These highly intelligent and eager dogs quickly went through the halls, offices and classrooms and were then sent to the chapel. They went up and down the aisles, past the pews and finally into the side chapel where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved. Upon reaching the Tabernacle, the dogs sniffed, whined, pointed, and refused to leave, their attention riveted on the tabernacle, until called by their handlers. They were convinced that they discovered someone there. We Catholics know they were right—they found a real, living Person in the Tabernacle!

Every time I read this story I feel uplifted. God is often testing our Faith, but from time to time He gives us a pearl like this to boost our Faith and help us move onward and upward in our spiritual journey.”

2002 Letter to Catholic Register

Feb 11, 2002

Editor

The Catholic Register

1155 Yonge St.

Toronto, ON

M4T 1W2

Dear Editor,

In The Catholic Register of Feb. 10 there is a letter of William S. Watson defending the writings of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This letter needs correction.

William Watson admits that Teilhard de Chardin’s writings were never approved by the Popes from Pius XI to Paul VI. This gives the impression that they were not disapproved. From 1926, when his Jesuit superiors forbade him to teach, he was the object of many warnings from his Order and from the Holy See. Popes Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI tried to prevent the spread of his errors. By the authority of Pope John XXIII, all Ordinaries, Superiors and Rectors were asked to “effectively protect, especially the minds of the young, against the dangers of the works of Father Teilhard de Chardin and his followers.” (Acts of the Apostolic See, August 6, 1962).

William Watson also implies, quoting the Prairie Messenger of June 21, 1981, that Cardinal Cassaroli, Secretary of State, approved of Teilhard’s works when he wrote to Archbishop Pupard on the 100th anniversary of Teilhard’s birth. This ambiguous letter was followed by a Statement of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office printed in l’Osservatore Romano of July 20, 1981. It repeated the warning of 1962 banning the writings of Teilhard and did so “against rumours that it no longer applied.”

As Jacques Maritan said in “The Peasant of Garrone” (p.264) in the writing of Teilhard de Chardin, “We are in the realm of ‘Great Fables.'” We are not surprised that Pope Pius XII called his writings “a cesspool of errors.” The Church’s condemnation of the works of Teilhard de Chardin remains in force.

Sincerely,

Msgr. Vincent Foy, P.H.