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...Heresy!" The ancient cry, heard last week in the corridors of Boston College (enrollment: 6,600), was aimed at the Jesuits who direct Boston College. The cry was raised by three young laymen teachers who protested that the Jesuits were teaching doctrines that were against Roman Catholic tenets. For months the laymen teachers had been growing more & more disturbed at what they regarded as too-tolerant views among the Jesuit members of the faculty...
...tell him that heretical doctrines were being taught. Joined by a teacher in Boston College High School, they next wrote a letter to the Pope himself. Then the four wrote to the General of the Jesuit order in Rome. Students in Boston College classes, they said, were being taught "implicitly and explicitly" that: 1) salvation can be won outside the Roman Catholic Church; 2) a man can be saved though he does not hold that the Catholic Church is supreme among churches; 3) a man can be saved without submission to the Pope...
Exclusive View. The laymen teachers, brashly willing to take on their Jesuit associates on a doctrinal matter, had a much more exclusive view of the road to salvation. "There is no doctrine that has been more often denned than that having to do with the salvation of the soul," said Lebanon-born Dr. Fakhri Maluf, 36, assistant professor of philosophy, who became a member of the Roman Catholic Church nine years ago. "Pope after pope has spoken on it. The Athanasian creed opens with the statement: 'Whosoever wishes to be saved, before all things it is necessary that...
...Feeney was removed from his priestly functions, according to Archbishop Cushing's decree, because of his "grave offense against the laws of the Catholic Church." The offense was not cited, but last week Fr. Feeney publicly supported three Boston College lay faculty members who, like Karam, accused the Jesuit college of teaching "heresy...
...manner in which Fr. Feeney has been "defying his superiors" has not been disclosed, but both Harvard and Radcliffe officials have denied making any protest to the Church about his activities. The Jesuit priest has often attacked Harvard College for allegedly weakening the faith of Catholic students and has advocated withdrawal of some of them to Catholic colleges...