Word: feeney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Father Leonard Feeney, S.J., is a short, 52-year-old man with a mobile, dimpled face and expressive hands. A literary priest who studied at Oxford and once worked on the Jesuit weekly America, Leonard Feeney is an enthusiastic conversationalist who sometimes begins his sentences with a naive, unliterary "Gee!" The author of several volumes of poetry and essays, he confessed in his Fish on Friday: "I am given to superlatives. I overstate things . . . I say 'most' when I mean 'much.' Without the words 'tremendous,' 'wonderful,' 'amazing,' and 'astounding...
Last week, newspaper 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...
More than fifty people, most of them Harvard and Radcliffe students, gathered outside St. Benedict Center between 8 and 8:30 p.m. last night to hear the Rev. Leonard Feeney, S. J., but were turned away by Fr. Feeney himself...
Shortly after, approximately fifteen people were admitted to the Center. Thursday is the regular night for Fr. Feeney's public lecture and meeting. A sign on the door of the Center announced, "Closed to the Public, open only to members of the school." Students of the College who attempted to get in before the arrival of Fr. Feeney were turned away at the door...
...phone call to the Center made earlier in the evening had been greeted by the announcement that a meeting definitely would take place. Nevertheless the janitor of the building, the sign on the door, and Fr. Feeney all maintained the contrary...