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Richard W. Wallach '49 1L will talk with State Education Commissioner John J. Desmond, Jr. '09 today, following up his public promise to investigate Father Feeney's right to GI Bill funds...
Wallach, in a statement to the CRIMSON last night said, "Father Feeney is a man who claims he has the road to salvation, and he called me damned, laying his hand upon me in so saying, for finding another road from his to the Christ he pretends to revere. He told me yesterday that Ernest Renan, Charles Dickens, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Merton ('a weak T. S. Eliot'), and Bishop Wright were damned...
...damned and people like himself are saved, I would suggest to Father Feeney that I am destined for better company than he is," he added...
...Father Feeney denied laying a hand on Wallach. He said, however, "If I should maintain that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, I must include Mr. Wallach. I am surprised he was insulted at my consistency...
Wallach's statement went on, "Father Feeney is a man rightly repudiated by his parish, his Order, and by his Church at Rome. His is the mentality that applied the torch to the medieval fagots of the Inquisition; his is the dogmatism that forced Galileo to recant and burned St. Joan of Arc. His is the bigotry at which sincere Churchmen pale with horror...