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...time, Father Feeney was professor of Sacred Eloquence at Weston Seminary, the local Jesuit theological school. He had formerly served as Literary Editor of "America", the national Catholic magazine. He was the author of "Fish on Friday" as well as many books of poetry. Before teaching on the Weston faculty he was a professor at the Graduate School of Boston College...
This, the first clear and fully documented statement of the belief held by the members of St. Benedict's, was duly referred to the Jesuit Seminary at Weston. In due course the answer came in the form of a short and scholarly paper issued for the benefit of Boston College by Father Philip J. Donnelly, S. J., professor of Dogmatic Theology at Weston. "Some Observations on the Question of Salvation Outside the Church," which was reprinted in "From the Housetops," answered St. Benedict's Center to the satisfaction of the Church, though not to the satisfaction of the Center...
...recent reports by New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart of discrimination against Protestants in Spain (TIME, March 7); the 1885 encyclical of Pope Leo XIII stating that "it is not lawful for the State ... to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; and an article in the Jesuit publication La Civiltà Cattolica (TIME, June 28, 1948) which stated: "The Roman Catholic Church, convinced, through its divine prerogatives, of being the only true church, must demand the rights to freedom for herself alone ... As to other religions, the Church will . . . require that by legitimate means they shall...
Whenever Roman Catholics take a public drubbing for their policy in Spain, they can retort, as the Jesuit weekly America did last spring: "Let us look at Sweden. It has an established Lutheran church, apparently unaware (like England) of the 'great Protestant principle' of separation of church and state. Without special permission of the Swedish government, the Catholic Church can own no property in Sweden, as Protestants can do in Spain ... Do American Catholics, or indeed, Swedish Catholics (5,809 in a population of 6,000,000) shout about Lutheran 'persecution' of Catholics in Sweden...
Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...