Why the Saint Augustine Institute?
It has been 68 years since St. Benedict Center was originally founded as a school on the feast of St. Joseph, in the year 1940. At one time, as those familiar with the history of our Crusade know, St. Benedict Center operated a fully accredited college in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It began as part of the ideal of our Founders to convert America to the Catholic Faith. Father Leonard Feeney, Sister Catherine, and Brother Francis knew that deep study of our Faith by men and women who would become the leaders of our nation would eventually convert that nation through their leadership. This continues to be an essential aspect of the Crusade. As a legacy for a future Christendom, Fr. Feeney desired to establish a “school of thought” with a profoundly Catholic perspective. Fr. Feeney understood that the task of converting this nation is going to necessitate personal holiness, but that it is also going to require a certain degree of intellectual formation. In one important respect, our assignm
