Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he came to St. Benedict's as full-time chaplain in 1943, Leonard Feeney was a distinguished and respected professor of Sacred Eloquence at Weston Seminary, the local Jesult theological school. He had formerly served as Literary Editor of "America," the national Catholic magazine. He was the author of "Fish on Friday" as well as many books of poetry. Before teaching on the Weston faculty, he was professor at the Graduate School of Boston College. Even after the difficulty with St. Benedict's had begun, Archbishop Richard J. Cushing recognized Feeney as one of the great minds...
Father Feeney heads the St. Benedict's Center on Arrow Street, across the way from the old part of Adams House. The Center used to be a Catholic Club of Harvard and Radcliffe students. Since the spring of 1949, it has become the hub of a nation-wide group of self-termed "militant Catholics" who defy the higher Catholic authorities and adopt a line that has been commended by the American Fascist Union...
...Boston College professors were suspended from B. C. for teaching their students the dogma: "There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church." Father Feeney, who had been preaching the same dogma, came to their support, condemned the higher-ups for not following it, took the four professors into St. Benedict's, and expounded the heretical doctrine more loudly than the rest...
...these activities, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit order. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing silenced him, and put St. Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
There is one case, typical of them all, but perhaps more tragic. It is that of Evelyn, 24 years old, who left Radcliffe to join St. Benedict's. Her parents were against the action. She renounced them...