Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight L. Moody will preach on Sunday morning to a group of lumberjacks in upper Michigan. Martin Luther will preach on Sunday afternoon in a school-house in the mountains of Virginia. Charles Wesley will preach twice next Sunday, repeating the same service, in the state penitentiary in California. Dr. R.A. Torrey, the famous Presbyterian preacher, will speak next Sunday in the parlor of John Farmer, R.F.D. 6, Pea Creek, North Fork, Ozark County...
...these activities, Father Feeney was expelled from the Jesuit order. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing silenced him, and put St. Benedict's under interdict. By silencing is meant that Father Feeney is not allowed to preach or teach until the ban is lifted. With St. Benedict's under interdict, anyone who goes there is denied the sacraments of the Church and cannot receive the Holy Eucharist...
When Father Feeney began his Sunday sermons, he admits his idea was merely to dramatize his expulsion from the Jesuit order and his silencing. He was content, in his early lectures, to preach the dogma of "no salvation" and prove by the gospel that this was the basic dogma of the Church and the present hierarchy was ignoring it. He claims he did not expect popular support and did not intend to carry on the Sunday meetings for very long...
...Father Feeney needed no help. He had begun to preach a doctrine of hate that encompassed everyone who did not believe as he did. He organized a core of faithful that followed and protected and fought for him. He had gained no little power...
...will be "to help the cathedral be what cathedrals were in the days of their foundation, a central missionary enterprise of the diocese-the growing edge of the church-speaking to the contemporary mind outside the church, to the fringe of doubters and seekers." Dean Pike will preach most Sunday sermons. Says he: "I'm a little overwhelmed...