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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...
...that in crisis finds within itself the means of rebirth and renewal. And as in the days of Augustine, Francis and Luther, signs show that a renewal is taking shape in Christianity. "There is a kind of pre-Reformation spirit running through the church today," says the Rev. Don Benedict, director of the experiment-minded Chicago City Missionary Society. "It looks as though Christians of today stand on the threshold of great changes in Christendom," adds the Rev. Roger Lloyd, vice-dean of England's Winchester Cathedral. "The prospect of a new Reformation is clearly in sight...
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