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...Feeney is also trying to woo more students from Radcliffe and Harvard to study in St. Benedict's. His promises include "Nice boys and girls you'll like," plus free room, board, and tuition. "We do a lot of things here you'll like," he says...
...disciples study Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and learn the scriptures almost by rote. They interest people in the Center and in Feeney, sell the priest's books, distribute his new periodical, "The Catholic Observer," and carry on a hate campaign with an intensity born of real conviction...
Much of this campaign is carried on by letters to "militant Catholics" and sympathizers all over the country. Feeney himself dictates letters to Mrs. Catherine Clarke, owner of the Center. They go to many of the nation's large cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. He sends them issues of "The Catholic Observer" and advice on how to carry his "message" to the people...
Gordon Hall, the editor of "Countertide," an anti-Fascist monthly, wrote to Feeney under an assumed name as one of his "organizers" in New York. Feeney dictated several letters to Mrs. Clarke which best set forth his doctrines...
...following their scheme, it is true, the inhabitants of St. Benedict's have been persecuted. Building inspectors made them add costly improvements to the Center under penalty of having it condemned. Lately, these same men have tried to get into the homes of Feeney and several of his teachers for the same reason. The cases are now being fought out in court...