Word: priesting
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...This priest, though, according to his successor, Reverend Joseph Collins, was not universally welcomed by Harvard’s student body. “I think that the students got the impression that if they joined the [Harvard Catholic] club, they’d have to join Opus Dei,” Collins says...
Although this priest chose to leave Harvard for reasons of his own, in 1961 Collins says he asked two priests of Opus Dei to leave the school’s Catholic chaplaincy. One of them, Collins says, was Bucciarelli. Bucciarelli denies the charge...
Last year, another Opus Dei priest was dismissed from St. Peter’s parish near the Quad, where 50 to 100 Harvard students worship every week, according to James Roosevelt ’68, grandson of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a resident of Cambridge. Roosevelt says he and a group of parishioners asked their pastor to dismiss the Opus Dei priest. The pastor, he says, consented...
Another, more highly publicized removal of an Opus Dei priest from a college campus occurred at Princeton University in 1990, when Princeton’s Catholic chaplain dismissed Reverend C. John McCloskey, whose removal had been petitioned by students charging that McCloskey’s presence threatened student welfare, according to a 1995 report in America, a national Catholic newsweekly. The article also reported that McCloskey, who is now the director of the Catholic Information Center in D.C., denied all charges...
Reverend Alvaro Silva, a former priest of Opus Dei who was with the Work for 35 years before leaving in 1999, is not surprised that the group has encountered so much resistance. While he was still a member of the group, Silva pushed for reforms from inside because he felt that recruitment was too aggressive...