Word: churched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the slogans mentioned were, "Salvation by Sincerity," "Membership in the Soul of the Church," "Don't Judge," "Don't Disturb the Good Faith of the Unbelievers," and "It is Not Charitable to Talk about Hell or to Suggest that Anybody May Go There...
Maluf cited the late Franz Werfel, author of "The Song of Bernadette," as an example of someone who had investigated the Church and had publicly admitted that its doctrines were the primary influence of his life, and who had never been baptized a Catholic. Maluf said Werfel must be in hell unless he was baptized on his death...
...January 1948 Archbishop Cushing, in complete disagreement with "the no salvation outside the Church" theory set forth in "From the Housetops," is reported to have asked the editors of the quarterly to submit all manuscripts to the Chancery (the Archbishop's office from which he manages the affairs of the archdiocese) before publication. It is further reported that Father Feeney refused outright to submit to this censorship...
Father Feeney accused Monsignor Augustus Hickey, of St. Paul's Church and Vicar General of the archdiocese, of ordering him in the name of the Archbishop to suspend publication of "From the Housetops." Maluf, according to Father Feeney, asked for a written order from the Archbishop to that effect along with the reason for its issuance. Monsignor Hickey reportedly left the Center never to return with the written order. The Chancery neither confirms or denies this story on the grounds that Archbishop Cushing has issued his last public statement on the matter last April...
...might not repeat it in his teaching at Holy Cross." Neither this appeal nor Father Feeney's doctrinal question has ever been answered, Father Feeney reported. He went on to say that "the authorities were afraid to go on record with the statement that 'salvation outside of the Church is wrong doctrine...