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...Benedict Center charged today that Harvard personnel encouraged Catholic officials to start action against Father Leonard Feeney, Center chaplain...
...book chronicles the ten year history of the Center and concentrates on the Center's doctrinal fight with the Boston Archdiocese. The controversy came to a head in August, 1948, when Jesuit authorities ordered Father Feeney to leave the Center for Holy Cross College, an order which the Father refused to obey...
...Clarke asserts that Jesuit priests studying at Harvard were on the side of the University during the conflict. She says that these priests sat, "apparently unmoved, in the classes of atheists and Marxist sympathizers," and that after Father Feeney had censured them, they started "a crusade of persecution" against Father Feeney...
...October 28, 1949 Father Leonard Feeney, Chaplain to St. Benedict Center, was dismissed from the Society of Jesus. That night he held a press conference at which he said, "Now that the decisive step has been taken, I shall begin to write again, and those who were interested in my books...wherein I sought to defend the Catholic Faith in gay and merry fashion will soon see the book in which I shall defend it as a militant son of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Founder of the Society of Jesus, from which I have been expelled...
According to Father Feeney "liberal theology," or the theology that says salvation is possible for non-Catholics, has pervaded the hierarchy of the archdiocese if not the entire world, and it is the self appointed task of the 70-odd people connected with the Center to bring these "heretics" back to the "truth." Their five-year struggle to do this against such odds is the basis of the book...