Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feeney had been denied the right to preach or hear confessions. Last week Archbishop Gushing further decreed that Father Feeney could perform no priestly functions, e.g., saying Mass, teaching religion. He also forbade any Roman Catholic to visit or assist in the activities of Feeney's G.H.Q. -St. Benedict Center on Cambridge's Arrow Street...
...Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights...
...move to amend his first disobedience in failing to take a new job at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross. And in spite of Archbishop Cushing's decree, the Feeney school of doctrine was still going full blast. "The Archbishop said nothing about closing St. Benedict Center School" explained stubborn Jesuit Feeney...
...Read Benedict, R. 'Anthropology and the Humanities' in the American Anthropologist, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 585-84, 1948, for a point of view similar to yours...
More than fifty people, most of them Harvard and Radcliffe students, gathered outside St. Benedict Center between 8 and 8:30 p.m. last night to hear the Rev. Leonard Feeney, S. J., but were turned away by Fr. Feeney himself...