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...famous dispute erupted with the dismissal of four instructors who taught the Feeney doctrine, from Boston College in 1949. Feeney was then chaplain at St. Benedict's Center, on Bow St., opposite Adams House...
...Feeney said he had not gone to Rome because he was already informed of the charges against him "as I am entitled to be under canon...
After he continued to carry on his work, an appeal was made to Rome. Feeney refused to answer three letters from the Pope in 1952. The letters requested him to come to Rome. The latest note, received in January, warned if he did not answer before the 30th of that month he would be excommunicated...
Excommunication places Feeney "out of communion with the faithful and deprives him of the right to administer and receive the sacraments." It also subjects him to other punishments and disabilities as determined by the laws of the church, according to the statement by the Sacred Congregation...
Actually, Feeney had been deprived of his rights as a priest when he was defrocked in 1949. The interdict barred all Catholics from frequenting the Center under penalty of forfeiting the right to receive the sacraments of Penance and the Holy Eucharist. Feeney ignored this ban and declared his right to "wear the Roman collar and teach the true faith...