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		Feeney recognized that the root of the church's inner problems and failure to convert America to the true Faith(and elsewhere throughout the world) was the result of a suppression of the thrice-defined dogma that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation.
		Feeney -- not obeying the summons to Rome -- is a matter for a court or judge to weigh.
		Leonard Feeney was unjustly treated and persecuted by fellow churchmen in positions of authority who abused the authority of the offices they held and brought up uncanonical charges of disobedience to this priest of Christ's Church.
	www.geocities.com /adam_todm/FeeneyFacts.htm (1512 words)

	Fr. Feeney Facts
		Feeney were both grave and numerous and that he intended to persevere in the dispositions that produced these acts and thus had no intention of amending his ways, Fr.
		Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for a disobedience that was both grave and scandalous.
		Feeney was given the opportunity to appear before the Holy Office, where he could defend his charge of heresy and his interpretation of the doctrine “outside the Church there is no salvation,” he refused to take it.
	alcazar.net /Feeney2.html (3812 words)

	Leonard Feeney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Father Leonard Feeney (1897-1978) was an American Jesuit priest who insisted on a rigorist interpretation of the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus, or "outside the church there is no salvation", arguing that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing and all non-Catholics therefore go to Hell.
		He was officially excommunicated in 1953 by Pope Pius XII for refusing to submit to ecclesiastical authority, but his supporters claim that the excommunication was invalid because the correct procedure was not followed.
		He was reconciled to the church before his death, but reportedly did not retract his views on the doctrine, which is inscribed on his tombstone.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/leonard_feeney (215 words)

	PetersNet: Michael J. Mazza, Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: Father Feeney Makes a Comeback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Feeney, arch-conservative and baiter of non- Catholics, is that his use of the theory of private interpretation is essentially very similar to that of the heresiarch Martin Luther's.
		Feeney himself, beset with the mental and physical ailments of old age, was reportedly "reconciled" to the Church on November 22, 1972 in the St. Thomas More Bookstore in Cambridge, with the help of a group of members of the Center and some very indulgent diocesan officials.
		Leonard J. Feeney died at the age of 80 on January 30, 1978 and is buried in the Center's graveyard in Still River.
	www.petersnet.net /browse/963.htm (6877 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Is There Salvation Outside the Church?
		In 1943, Father Feeney became the popular chaplain for the students at St. Benedict's Center, which served Catholics from Harvard and Radcliffe.
		In 1972, through the efforts of Bishop Bernard Flanagan of Worcester, Father Feeney and some of his followers were reconciled to the Church.
		The Fathers of the Church often taught that "outside the Church there is no salvation" (e.g., St. Augustine, Sermon 96, 7, 9).
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=674 (965 words)

	Washington Monthly: Spiritual Politics: Religion and America Since World War II. - book reviews
		Father Leonard Feeney, a heretic priest who operated for several years from that university's unofficial Catholic student center is mentioned by name 43 times, and his followers, the Feeneyites, five times.
		Both Feeney and Pike are, in their limited way, interesting--were Silk to write a history of modern American heresy he would have two chapters in the bank.
		Feeney's loony, single-minded devotion to the proposition extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the church no salvation) and the Reverend Bailey Smith's 1980 announcement that God didn't hear the prayers of Jews.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n5_v20/ai_6742341 (1257 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Articles: Salvation Outside the Church
		In fact, even the citings that are provided by the rigorists cannot be held as conclusive proof for their interpretation simply because many of the Fathers they cite did not, in fact, hold to the rigorist view.
		Pius XII, who affirmed the doctrine in his Encyclicals 'Mystici Corporis (1943 A.D.)' and 'Humani Generis' (1950), also qualified its meaning in attempting to silence Father Leonard Feeney, S.J., an American Jesuit at Boston College and the 'father' of the rigorist movement (whose proponents, whether rightly or wrongly, are now referred to as the 'Feeneyites').
		Father Feeney was expelled from his order and then excommunicated in the 1940's for holding and pushing the rigorist view as official Catholic teaching.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19990101/ARTICLES/definition.htm (1318 words)

	St. Benedict Abbey - For The Record - 4
		The religious community titled the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was founded by Father Leonard Feeney on January 17, 1949.
		The censures imposed by the Archdiocese of Boston in April, 1949 and by the Holy Office in September, 1952 and by the Holy Office in February, 1953, were removed by the Holy Office in November, 1972 from Father Leonard Feeney.
		Leonard Feeney and Saint Benedict Center were disciplinary, not doctrinal - and neither Father Feeney nor we were ever asked to recant, or to accept the letter of Cardinal Marchetti-Salveggiani.
	www.abbey.org /abbey-4.html (473 words)

	20th Century Feeneyite Heresy
		At this point, the Archbishop of Boston demanded that Father Feeney retract his false interpretation and make an "explicit profession of submission" to the Roman Declaration within one month or suffer the penalty of being reduced to the state of a layman.
		Father Feeney accepted on condition that they told him beforehand what the charges against him were.
		It is true that some of the Fathers of the Church arraign severely those who content themselves with the desire of receiving the sacrament of regeneration, but they are speaking of catechumens who of their own accord delay the reception of baptism from unpraiseworthy motives.
	www.the-pope.com /feeneyite.html (6139 words)

	The Debates on EENS - Debate #2 - Matt’s Opening Statement for the Debate that never was
		If Father Feeney was to be consistent, he should have made this the same requirement for eating Christ's flesh and blood.
		However, we saw Father Feeney proclaim “Baptism or damnation.” Thus, despite being made a Child of God, Father Feeney by implication argues that unless that person is baptized and made a member of the Catholic Church, that person must commit mortal sin, in which all three conditions must be met.
		Father Feeeney is inconsistent and his denial of the implications of Trent and the conditions necessary for mortal sin affirm even more that baptism of desire is salvific.
	matt1618.freeyellow.com /matt1.html (4289 words)

	TCR: general (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The problem here, Reverend Father, is that once we have allowed only one person to "belong invisibly", we are on the dangerous slope of Karl Rahner's heresy of the anonymous Christian.
		Satan, the father of lies, hates this dogma; and he likes us to make the narrow gate seem wider than it really is. He likes this because he knows that, fallen human nature being what it is, the greater number will follow the path of least resistance.
		Feeney's error, makes one admire how the Holy Office, supreme tribunal of the faith, formerly dispensed justice, before it was destroyed at the end of the Council by Paul VI's mom proprio Integrae servandae.
	www.tcrnews2.com /gencontroversy.html (3247 words)

	Fish On Friday - Fish On Friday And Other Sketches - 13056
		Then, in 1949, because of the famous "Boston Heresy Case", in which Father accused the Archbishop of Boston of denying the Faith, Father Feeney was silenced by that very same bishop and his literary works were flushed down the memory hole.
		Now that fifty years have passed and his heroic stand in defense of the Church is coming to be widely honored and understood, it is time to resurrect the work of the best and most exciting Catholic American author of the 20th century.
		Father Feeney's work was better known to Catholic schoolchildren than Longfellow's.
	www.catholicstore.com /index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=10669 (615 words)

	Catholic Answers: Karl's E-Letter
		Leonard Feeney (1897-1978) was known to the public mainly as a writer of better-than-average poetry and of popular books such as "Fish on Friday." From the late 1940s until his death he was known instead for his rigorist interpretation of the maxim "extra ecclesiam nulla salus" ("no salvation outside the Church").
		Over the ensuing decades the followers of Leonard Feeney have insisted that neither he nor they were anti-Semitic, and they say the application of that term to their founder and to themselves has been unfair.
		Leonard Feeney may be remembered today for insisting that "there is no salvation outside the Church" (a true doctrine, by the way, if properly interpreted), but it seems that in the 1950s he and his Slaves were preoccupied with the Jews, to the point of obsession.
	www.catholic.com /newsletters/kke_040113.asp (1232 words)

	Catholic Tradition Against Feeneyism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Leonard Feeney was preceded by a letter from Richard J. Cushing, Archbishop of Boston:
		Leonard Feeney was later excommunicated (1953) for disciplinary reasons, not for his teachings.
		For as we believe in Him both as dwelling with the Father and as having come in the flesh, so the men of the former ages believed in Him both as dwelling with the Father and as destined to come in the flesh.
	www.catholicfiles.com /againstfeeneyism.html (6732 words)

	Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: Father Feeney Makes A Comeback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Father's are unanimously explicit on the necessity of Baptism for salvation.
		Feeney was reconciled to the Church not by "very indulgent diocesean officials", but through the offices of Bishop Flanagan of Worcester and Cardinal Mederios of Boston.
		Feeney was the only one under a penalty, it is incorrect to speak of the other members of his community as being "reconciled".
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-religion/954783/posts (13246 words)

	TCRNews.com, Dominus Iesus continued.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Father Gaetano Favaro, is professor in the Institutes of Religious Sciences of Milan and Brescia, and the department of theology in Lugano commented on the "Dominus Iesus" (The Lord Jesus) declaration to the Italian newspaper Avvenire.
		Father Favaro, who is a missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, or PIME, said he does not see an obstacle to genuine dialogue in the document's publication, a dialogue "which cannot disregard the truth," he said Sept. 30.
		Feeney above) But this does not mean that it is so in a partial or lesser way, the cardinal added.
	www.tcrnews2.com /unitychurch2.html (2509 words)

	Transcending Boundaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Feeney did attract some extremists to his movement, but the Feeney affair was nothing like the rampant and violent antisemitism that swept over Jews in the early 1940s and resurged in 1949-51.
		Feeney initially gained publicity with his involvement in a Boston College dispute over the teaching of "no salvation outside the church." Boston College dismissed four teachers who promulgated this view; Feeney supported the teachers, which led the Jesuit order to also discharge him.
		While Feeney cursed the Jews and anyone outside the Church, (although he himself was outside the Church; which is one of the great ironies of the Feeney affair), his action had the reverse effect and brought Archbishop Cushing into closer contact with the Jewish community.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/research/cjl/articles/goldstein.htm (19999 words)

	The Aggiornamento of the Roman Catholic Church From Patristic Times To Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Leonard Feeney disputed a key Liberal soteriological doctrine of salvation for non-Catholics, as the Jansenists had centuries before.
		André wrote afterwards, “I told him that Father [Feeney] had a definite theological opinion that the Sacrament would be given to all those whose names were written in the book of life and that God’s Providence would not allow otherwise.
		I said that Father and we would admit that this is his theological opinion and not binding on all Catholics, that the opinion of (limited) “baptism of desire,” in the case of catechumens or some analogous person, was something many saints held and that it falls within the parameters of Catholic orthodoxy.”
	www.romancatholicism.org (3690 words)

	Ask Me... why pro-life, Feeneyism, immodest dress in a primitive culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Here is the text: "Rev. Leonard Feeney, S.J., because of grave offense against the laws of the Catholic Church has lost the right to perform any priestly function, including preaching and teaching of religion.
		Feeney's case revolved was the Catholic Dogma which stated that "Outside the Church there is no salvation—extra Ecclesiam nulla salus." Our Lord has said: "He who believes and is baptized shall be saved.
		Surely Father Feeney did not deny that the Holy Innocents whose feast is celebrated on December 28th were saved through the Baptism of Blood.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1985_October/Ask_Me.htm (811 words)

	eens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It gained a lot of support among lay people in the late eighties due to publicity around several references to baptism of blood by various early Fathers of the Church.
		The references publicized could be read with either the orthodox or the 'combined effect' view but ultimately references that could only be understood with the orthodox interpretation put the publicity to rest.
		The most prominent modern advocate of a rigorous interpretation of these statements was a Boston Jesuit called Leonard Feeney.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /EENS.html (871 words)

	Point magazine for Sep 1953 edited by Fr Leonard Feeney
		Father Leonard Feeney has come off in the Catholic periodicals as the one man in the country with dangerous doctrines.
		Father Leonard Feeney, the superior of the Order, was referred to as everything from a “former priest” and an “ex-priest” to “Mr.
		Feeney.” This was a clear, overt attack on the Sacrament of Holy Orders, and the Brothers could not overlook it.
	www.fatherfeeney.org /point/53-sep.html (2144 words)

	EENS
		Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M. It is difficult to think of a more controversial statement than Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: Outside the Church there is no salvation.
		Since Father Leonard Feeney began publicly defending the Church's perennial teaching on salvation against the attacks of the Modernists in 1949, there has been a heated argument over whether or not only Catholics can be saved.
		Feeney knew this, and his love for the Faith compelled him to preserve and defend it.
	www.societyoftheimmaculata.com /EENS.html (2249 words)

	Tower of David Ministry, Catholic Apologetics, Education, History
		Mr Adam S. Miller is the founder and director of Tower of David Ministry and its publishing branch, and is the author of numerous works defending and explaining the teachings of the Catholic Church.
		EENS and the Hypothetical Catechumen- Answers the objection of the hypothetical Catechumen who is killed before receiving the Sacrament of Baptism in relation to the Dogma on the necessity of Baptism and that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation.
		Father Feeney Fact Sheet- A fact sheet concerning Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M., what he taught, and his case with ecclesiastical authorities.
	www.geocities.com /adam_todm (896 words)

	Journal of Religion and Society
		It is not clear that Mel Gibson adheres to sede-vacantism, though he does repudiate Vatican II, but it is clear by self-confession that his father does, and the temptation to visit the sins of the father on the son is powerful.
		For the sake of justice, of course, that temptation should be resisted, a restraint from which the press has absolved itself in the present debate.
		In 1947, Jesuit Father Leonard Feeney interpreted that aphorism in such a rigid sense that he was excommunicated by Pius XII.
	moses.creighton.edu /JRS/2004/2004-6.html (2408 words)

	THE RESURRECTION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
		Feeney was a priest in the Boston area who was one of the first to see the doctrine of Baptism of Desire being increasingly abused by certain "Catholic educators" in his area, including even his own Archbishop Cardinal Cushing, to excuse all sorts of false religion.
		Feeney heroically fought against that heresy but in doing so he went just a little bit too far by rejecting the Catholic doctrines of Baptism of Desire and of Blood.
		The good parts proved to be nothing but padding with which the "Council Fathers" were lulled to sleep in order that they would not notice those other parts in which they were signing away their authority and partially resigning from their respective sees.
	www.the-pope.com /church03.html (7493 words)

	Toogood Reports Commentary: Michael D. Shaw
		But, Feeney was to lose his battle, and was effectively banished, only to be brought back into the fold shortly before his death.
		Leonard Feeney was sold out by his own superiors, and cut down in his prime, setting the pattern of behavior for a succession of miserable Cardinals, far too wrapped up in external matters, and far too weak in preserving the integrity of the Archdiocese they are under Holy Orders to protect.
		Father Dominic Savino, president of the Catholic high school my own sons attended, was fired after an investigation found evidence supporting allegations of sexual misconduct with 10 teenage boys.
	toogoodreports.com /column/general/shaw/20020325.htm (1369 words)

	Michael J. Mazza
		Father Leonard J. Feeney evidently liked what he saw when he first visited the Center in 1941, and by 1945, with the approval of his Jesuit superior, had become its first full-time priest chaplain.
		Feeney, arch-conservative and baiter of non-Catholics, is that his use of the theory of private interpretation is essentially very similar to that of the heresiarch Martin Luther's.
		One prominent example of a Lefebvrist sympathizer coming over to Feeneyism is that of Gerry Matatics, the one-time Presbyterian minister who, like his friend and co-religionist Scott Hahn, sent chills of excitement up the spines of orthodox Catholics as he toured the country sharing his conversion story.
	www.ewtn.com /library/ANSWERS/EXTRECCL.HTM (6829 words)

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