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According to Reverend Thomas E. Brennan, it took just one outspoken peer to dissuade at least 13 students from attending Mass at St. Paul’s parish. Brennan, Harvard’s undergraduate Catholic chaplain, says that one individual, who has since graduated, was named by those 13 students as the reason they no longer went to church. Some students stopped coming because they felt they were no longer worthy of the church; others felt that the church was no longer a place worthy of their time...
According to Reverend Robert P. Bucciarelli ’56, an Opus Dei priest, however, no student associated with Opus Dei ever threatened the “tent” Brennan visualizes; he calls his fellow priest’s story a lie. “It didn’t happen. It’s a lie—L-I-E,” he says...
What distinguishes the Reverend from the rest, though, is what brought him back four years ago. He is a slim priest with enthusiastic eyebrows and a cool sliver of a smile, and he is no longer here simply to study...
Harvard should be at the forefront of this campaign because the university has already allowed design to gain legitimacy in a University-sponsored debate. In November of 2001, the design proponent Jonathan Wells (a devotee of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon) managed to secure a debate at the Kennedy School of Government with Harvard Professor of Biology Stephen Palumbi. The actual debate was uneventful, with both men agreeing that evolutionary biology had many outstanding questions. Nevertheless, design proponents later cited the exchange as a crushing victory. It lent respectability to an idea that no Harvard biology professor could endorse...
...according to the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian Morals and a member of the United Ministry, the restrictive zoning enacted in 1999 to prevent construction of a condominium would make the chapel a tough sell...