Word: chaplain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Feeney is the Chaplain of St. Benedict's Center, and has strongly argued the controversial doctrine that salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church is impossible...
...Righteousness. In World War I he was an Army chaplain at Camp Upton, and long before World War II he became an interventionist. Condemning the "sentimental pacifism" of some of his colleagues, he said in 1938: "I am not for peace at any price, but rather for righteousness at any cost...
Despite its gummy spots, e.g., a trite pep talk by Chaplain Leon Ames explaining to a battle-hardened gang of veterans why they are fighting, Battleground is the sternest studio-made war film since The Story of GI Joe. On the debit side, each soldier is given a bit of colorful routine that is tiresomely underlined every time the soldier is seen: Private Douglas Fowley loses or clicks his store-bought teeth; ex-Editor John Hodiak mourns over the fact that his wife in Sedalia knows more about the battle than he does. But Director William Wellman threads...
...hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that he was 'chaplain of the 13th Kansas' as the grim-faced boy blew out his brains...
Father Feeney, who is the chaplain of St. Benedict's commented, "The reason is because I will not leave St. Benedict's Center." He refused to do so in August, 1948, when he was ordered by the Jesuits to join the faculty of Holy Cross...