Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readers learned that Father Feeney's passion for overdoing things had landed him in ecclesiastical hot water. First, he burst into print with an impassioned defense of the three Boston College laymen teachers who had been fired for teaching doctrine "contrary to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church" and for accusing their Jesuit superiors of heresy (TIME, April 25). Their uncompromising stand that there was no possibility of salvation outside the Roman Catholic Church, wrote Feeney, was the true doctrine - whatever the Baltimore Catechism or his fellow Jesuits might...
...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 a week about 200 other students attended evening...
Profession of Faith. Jesuit Feeney alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism...
Francis L. Church '50 will head the Free Enterprise Society for 1949-50 as the result of last night's election, which filled eight of the society's executive positions...
...Radcliffe Idlers successfully--revived last night, is what Shaw has called one of his disquisitory plays. As the title indicates, the subject the Master has taken under scrutiny is the modern institution of marriage; but, as is customary with Shaw, a great many other institutions--divorce, sex, the church, snobbery, to name a few--are also pulled gently but firmly apart. And, as is also usual with Shaw, he offers no solution or substitute but ends by fitting the broken pieces back together again. Shaw is not an anarchist; he has deftly pointed out the flaws in modern marriage, tough...