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George J. Feeney '50, of Kirkland House and Chicago, was elected Feature Editor of the 1950 Album at a full board meeting last night. Feeney, Feature Editor of "Stars and Stripes" in Europe in '45 and '46, joins five other members of the '50 Executive Board now doing the ground work for a revamped year book next year...
Unhappy Fact. Boston's prow-chinned Archbishop Richard J. Gushing then made a pronouncement. Boston College authorities, said he, had been right in firing the teachers ("I do not see what else [they] . . . could have done"). Furthermore, the newspaper appearance of Father Feeney's name, Archbishop Gushing said, "obliges me to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right...
...Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a 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...
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...
...Father Feeney was confident last week that the Pope would eventually back up his stand. To some of his students he announced: "I don't care what happens to me after this. I have made my profession of faith to my country." But though he said he would bow to any disciplinary measures his superiors might take, Father Feeney was still in Boston, still apparently making no move to amend his first disobedience in failing to take a new job at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross. And in spite of Archbishop Cushing's decree...