Word: benedicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with attacks on Protestants and Jews. Then, in 1958, Feeney moved his cadre of followers, who called themselves the "Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary," from Cambridge to a rambling farm near Still River, a picture-book farming village in eastern Massachusetts. Feeney closed the doors of St. Benedict's Center to outsiders, concentrated on the spiritual disciplining of his 86 devoted Slaves, 39 of them children...
Dogmatism & Rigor. St. Benedict's was almost as hard to get out of as to get into, according to testimony recently presented before the State Supreme Court. The evidence, the first public account of life at the center since the Slaves moved to Still River, came from Boston College Law Student Robert Colopy, 38, filing suit for custody of his five children, who are still with their mother at St. Benedict...
...Benedict's, said Colopy, men and women live in separate houses on the farm, are forbidden to read newspapers, listen to the radio, or have any contact with the Still River townsfolk. Supporting the community by sales of his devotional and historical books, Feeney runs St. Benedict's like a monastery, indoctrinating the Slaves with long daily lectures and sermons. According to Colopy, Feeney frequently denounces the Jews as responsible for Communism, and Protestants for subverting Latin America from the church. Although Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing suspended him from his priestly functions, Feeney continues to celebrate...
Today, says the Rev. William Schram of Huguenot Memorial Presbyterian Church in Pelham, N.Y., "the suburb is the most exciting place for a minister to be." In Wilmette, Ill., the First Congregational Church has formed a financial and spiritual partnership with a downtown Chicago parish revived by Don Benedict's Missionary Society. Members of the congregation also welcome underprivileged children from Inner City churches into their homes for summer vacations, are working in the community to pass open-occupancy covenants. "We broke the barrier of involvement on race," says the Rev. Hugh Saussy of Holy Innocents' Episcopal Church...
...Either we experiment in faith, or else we fossilize," answers Canon Lloyd, and Don Benedict argues that in order to re-establish its credibility in the secular age the church must emphasize the ethical rather than confessional aspect of Christ. But today's renewal theologians are far more realistic than the Social Gospelers of the first decades of the 20th century who assumed that the church could guide the world on a path of easy progress toward