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After the speeches, there is always an hour or more of argument among Feeney's listeners. The people split up into three kinds of groups. One group uses his bigotry line to support its own ideas, and enlarges on his. Some think he should be locked up or refused freedom of speech in a public place. Others think he should go back merely to preaching the "non sulla ex-Catholica" dogma, as he did two years...
Many doubt whether stopping his Sunday sermons would stop Feeney and the national movement he has begun at St. Benedict's. He lectures there to anyone who wants to come every Thursday night at 8:30, saying much the same thing he preaches on the Common. Attacks on Harvard and its students and professors make up the meat of his Center talks...
...There'll be a third World War, and another one after that because of these 'sceptical chemists' like Conant." Sentiments like this bring gasps from Feeney's loyal audience of 75 to 100 followers, who consider him a prophet, and wise head noddings from the former Harvard...
Cushing Silenced Feeney...
...Feeney's real fight is with the local Catholic authorities, particularly Archbishop Cushing who silenced him. "We have more trouble with our own kind than we do with Protestants and Jews," he confides in private. "The Archbishop, under the lash of the Protestants and Jews, tried to close St. Benedict's, but 200 people came to me with tears in their eyes and begged me to stay and carry on at any cost. I couldn't leave them," he said...