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...Paul F. Feeney, deputy director of the Massachusetts Selective Service, emphasized yesterday that students will be among the last groups affected if there is any tightening of deferment policy...
...they have, according to Patrolman Francis P. Feeney of the MDC's Upper Charles River Division. "The law's been on the books for 40 or 50 years," Feeney said yesterday, "and we have been enforcing it right along...
...Feeney admitted that some other MDC prohibitions hadn't been so rigidly enforced. There are also regulations against using abusive language, playing musical instruments, sollciting alms, and praying out loud...
...Benedict's, said Colopy, men and women live in separate houses on the farm, are forbidden to read newspapers, listen to the radio, or have any contact with the Still River townsfolk. Supporting the community by sales of his devotional and historical books, Feeney runs St. Benedict's like a monastery, indoctrinating the Slaves with long daily lectures and sermons. According to Colopy, Feeney frequently denounces the Jews as responsible for Communism, and Protestants for subverting Latin America from the church. Although Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing suspended him from his priestly functions, Feeney continues to celebrate...
Whether the Supreme Court agrees with Colopy or not, he stands a good chance of eventually seeing his children outside the monastic confines of St. Benedict's. Ailing and embittered, Father Feeney has broken off contact with nearly all of his old clerical friends, has yet to induce one canonically ordained priest to join the Slaves, who regard themselves as more Catholic than the Pope. And without a spiritual leader, say other churchmen who have followed the tragic history of Father Feeney and his believers, the center will surely collapse. "They really need a priest," admits Colopy. "Those people...