Word: feeney
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After that, her mother and father came to the Common every Sunday afternoon to plead with their daughter to return. They stood in the middle of a large crowd, mostly hostile, while Father Feeney called them names, and their daughter publicly denounced them and called on the crowd to get rid of them. The mother wept and the father pleaded...
...crowds often became ugly and began shoving. But the two people returned every Sunday. They could not break the grip Father Feeney had on the heart of their girl...
...cheer dint of his own personality and wit, Father Feeney has won support and attention with sentiments that have been laughed at when voiced by others. He is training his students, he claims, to carry his doctrine "to every common and public square in greater Boston...
...when this "hard core of lovely, pure young boys" stands up and speaks in Boston, they are booed and heckled off the platform. Father Feeney is listened to in silence and awe. After his meetings, the crowd splits into little groups to argue the points they had just heard, and violence in these debates has been frequent...
When Father Feeney began his Sunday sermons, he admits his idea was merely to dramatize his expulsion from the Jesuit order and his silencing. He was content, in his early lectures, to preach the dogma of "no salvation" and prove by the gospel that this was the basic dogma of the Church and the present hierarchy was ignoring it. He claims he did not expect popular support and did not intend to carry on the Sunday meetings for very long...