Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October 9, 1974, Cardinal Humberto Medieros, Archbishop of Boston, fired Richard Griffin, Sister Anne Kelley O.P., and Carole Bohn from their positions as Catholic chaplains to the Harvard-Radcliffe community. Medieros' action, which drew strong objections from various segments of the Catholic community, ended what can be described at best as a discordant relationship between the three ministers and the Church hierarchy. Even the manner by which the three-minister-team was relieved proved to be controversial and alienating...
...summer of 1974 the Cardinal appointed a committee, chaired by Rev. John P. Boles, to investigate and assess the needs of the Harvard-Radcliffe community. However, the committee's assessment did not include input from the H-R community, and so when Griffin, Kelley and Bohn received notice of their dismissal notice, which they claim contained no explanation for the firing, the board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center Inc. at St. Paul's Church immediately voiced its objections to the Cardinal...
...time at Harvard was marked with almost continual conflict," reflects Griffin. "There was perhaps a grace period of a few months after my arrival in 1968, but after that both the pastors at St. Paul's and the Archbishop--Medieros rather than Cushing--provided consistent resistance to our efforts...
That resistance, coupled with the firing, eventually led Griffin to leave the priesthood (the Jesuit order) in February of 1975. His departure from his vocation points toward what Kelley sees as a trend among Catholic left leaders. "A lot of the leadership of the Catholic left has left, they have maintained their leftness, but have lost some of their Catholicness," she said...
Kelley has remained with her Dominican order and is currently working with the Boston anti-poverty community action agency. Griffin, since leaving the Jesuits, has been teaching and writing, and Bohn is presently enrolled in a doctoral program at B.U., doing part-time counselling at the Harvard Divinity School...