Word: fathers
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That afternoon Father Feeney announced that he believed his present silencing was "totally invalid." There the matter rested except for a statement by the Archbishop that the headlines were no place to settle a question of doctrine...
Meanwhile, Father Feeney, who had publicly endorsed the magazine his Center published, had encountered further difficulties. Last January, one month after Karam's original article in "From the Housetops," Father Feeney was dispossessed of his "faculties" without any public notice. That meant that he no was no longer allowed to hear confession, say mass, or perform any of the functions of a Catholic priest...
...April 13, the controversy flared into the newspaper headlines. There professors from Boston College and one teacher from the Boston College High School had been fired by Father William J. Keleher, S. J., president of Boston College, for "preaching in and out of class matters of doctrine that should have been left in the hands of competent theologians; matters contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church; and ideas leading to intolerance and bigotry...
April 13 was the Wednesday preceding Easter. The authorities of the Church were unable to answer this charge of heresy until the following Monday, as Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday intervened. Before the Archbishop could reply Father Feeney publicly supported the fired...
Archbishop Cushing also was "thus obliged to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months, and since January 1 has not possessed the faculties of his archdiocese...