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The battle between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and dissident priests over Pope Paul's anti-contraception encyclical continues. Last week the major scene of conflict was Washington, D.C., where Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle suspended one of his priests and threatened 51 others with disciplinary action unless they abandon...
The victim of the Cardinal's punishment was the Rev. T. Joseph O'Donoghue, 37, assistant pastor of St. Fran cis de Sales Church in northeast Washington. He is also a co-founder of the Association of Washington Priests, to which all the dissenters belong. Immediately after the...
Confusing the Faithful. Father O'Donoghue was singled out for suspension because of his handling of a subsequent pastoral letter from the Cardinal urging the faithful to accept the Pope's teaching in the encyclical. After reading the letter from the pulpit at Sunday Mass, O'Donoghue...
A jovial, kindhearted prelate who still speaks with a strong Irish brogue, O'Boyle had first tried persuasion with the recalcitrant priests. In a ten-page letter to each of them last month, he exuded a gentle, parental tone. "I hope you'll read [this] through," O'...
Responsibility Violated? The Cardinal also acted to stamp out dissent at Catholic University, of which he is the chancellor. At his behest, trustees of the university met last week, voted to investigate whether the 18 C.U. theologians who signed the anti-encyclical statement "have violated their responsibilities to the university...