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...Benedict's Center will begin a new round in its doctrinal controversy with the Roman Catholic Church at 8:15 p.m. tonight, Fakhri Maluf, one of three professors dismissed last Spring from the teaching staff of Boston College will deliver the first in a series of Tuesday evening lectures entitled "The Boston Heresy Case...
...months after the Center became a school, the theological dispute began. Its place of origin was "From the Housetops," a quarterly magazine published by the Center since 1946, which contained contributions from Father Feeney's followers. The offending article was titled "Sentimental Theology," and it was written by Fakhri Maluf, then assistant professor of Theology at Boston College, for the September, 1947, issue...
...article contained the statement, "The sharp weapons of Christ are being blunted, and the strong, virile doctrines of the Church are being put aside in a conspiracy of silence." Maluf went...
...Maluf cited the late Franz Werfel, author of "The Song of Bernadette," as an example of someone who had investigated the Church and had publicly admitted that its doctrines were the primary influence of his life, and who had never been baptized a Catholic. Maluf said Werfel must be in hell unless he was baptized on his death...
Father Feeney accused Monsignor Augustus Hickey, of St. Paul's Church and Vicar General of the archdiocese, of ordering him in the name of the Archbishop to suspend publication of "From the Housetops." Maluf, according to Father Feeney, asked for a written order from the Archbishop to that effect along with the reason for its issuance. Monsignor Hickey reportedly left the Center never to return with the written order. The Chancery neither confirms or denies this story on the grounds that Archbishop Cushing has issued his last public statement on the matter last April...