Word: clergyman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said a clergyman of Sweden's Lutheran State Church: "Our churches are empty. We do not seem to be able to interest the young. But nobody else seems able to interest them either...
...center of an ever widening ring of people, without an overcoat, on a small, rough, wooden platform, stood a short plump man in the black suit of a clergyman, his arms waving in the air, his white hair tossing about above his glasses, his shrill voice carrying over the noise of traffic on nearby Charles Street...
...Brotherhood is the bunk," cried the little clergyman, "the most absolute nonsense. You Catholics out there--do you know the Jews are trying to take over this city? And the Protestants are helping them. Why, everyone knows that. Everybody knows that to be true. The Jews run the business end, and the Protestants, the religious. And this is supposed to be a Catholic city...
...late August, 1949, he was attracting close to 2,000 people to his talks. St. Benedict's was becoming a national symbol to groups of fanatic-Catholics who took Feeney as their martyr and repeated his line in their own communities. Letters poured into the Center supporting the clergyman. Some even offered suggestions for his attacks...
...plump little clergyman is not through yet. "They call me a hatemonger but I'll show them all," he warns. "They can never stop me. No matter what they do to me, I'll never take off my Roman collar and I'll never stop preaching...