Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benedict's Center will begin a new round in its doctrinal controversy with the Roman Catholic Church at 8:15 p.m. tonight, Fakhri Maluf, one of three professors dismissed last Spring from the teaching staff of Boston College will deliver the first in a series of Tuesday evening lectures entitled "The Boston Heresy Case...
...fully understand the nature of this controversy, which has been raging in the newspapers off and on ever since last April, it is necessary to go back to 1940 when St. Benedict's Center was founded. Among the four people who started it as a religious and social meeting place for Catholics from Harvard, Radcliffe, and neighboring colleges were Christopher Huntington '32, then assistant dean of Freshmen, and Avery Dulles '40, son of Senator John Foster Dulles...
...years after the founding of St. Benedict's, "bull sessions" were established as a regular feature of the Center, in order that students could learn Catholic doctrine from each other...
...their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century, Trappist novices were having it so nice that "noble and bourgeois families chose such monasteries as refuges for their less talented sons - the ones...
Murphy dismissed the testimony to Hiss's good reputation-until caught up with, "Judas Iscariot had a reputation." So did Major General Benedict Arnold, who "could have called George Washington as a character witness." Murphy shouted: "Alger Hiss was a traitor. Another Benedict Arnold. Another Judas Iscariot. Another Judge Manton, who was in high places and was convicted right here in this building . . .* Someone has said that roses that fester stink worse than weeds. A brilliant man like this man, who betrays his trust, stinks. Inside that smiling face is a heart black and cancerous. He is a traitor...