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...Darkest Hour." Father Halton first ruffled the campus of Presbyterian-founded Princeton (motto: "Under God she flourishes") in 1954, with a sharp-tongued attack on the fitness of famed Philosopher Dr. Walter T. Stace to teach a freshman class in his subject, since he once admitted: "I believe in no religion at all." Father Halton then charged that Princeton's department of religion was incompetent to instruct students in Roman Catholicism because not one member was as well trained in the subject as "an eighth-grader in St. Paul's" (a local Catholic school...
...time went on, Halton found error all about him. In 1956, when a group of students asked Convicted Perjurer Alger Hiss to make a speech, Halton huffed that this was "Princeton's darkest hour," brought in a reporter from the Chicago Tribune to tell the students about Hiss and his Communist connections. The American Association of University Professors, charged Halton, "has abuses more serious than have been found in the inquiries of the Teamsters Union." He blasted a book called Morals and Medicine used as a text in some religion courses, saying that it misrepresented Roman Catholic teaching. Later...
...Fuzzy Sportsmanship." Such attacks, often made in sermons published the next day as full-page ads in the student newspaper, led last year's whimsically sardonic senior class to name Halton as their favorite comedian, and the man "least likely to send his son to Princeton." But the administration was not amused, asked the Diocese of Trenton to recall its chastising chaplain. The request was denied...
When he learned a fortnight ago that his university privileges were to be withdrawn, Halton, who holds doctorates in philosophy and civil law from Oxford, took to his pulpit to defend his stands. "It simply isn't polite to have convictions in academic circles today," he said, "sweet reasonableness and a curious kind of fuzzy sportsmanship have conditioned us to believe that truth necessarily lies in the middle. I shall continue to speak in defense of the central issues of Catholic doctrine and discipline, the central postulates of faith and reason in an academic context...
After Goheen's action, quick support for Halton came from Trenton Bishop George W. Ahr, who said he will leave the chaplain at Princeton "for the present," declared that the key issue in the dispute is "the right of a priest charged with the spiritual care of Catholic students in a secular university to speak out in defense of the faith and morals of those committed to his care." Added Halton: "The teaching of some Princeton professors has done and is doing graver disservice to the religious and moral traditions of American democracy than all the writings of Karl...