JULY 2, 2010
ROBERT KENNEDY ASKED RICHARD CUSHING TO SUPPRESS FR.LEONARD FEENEY
According to the memoirs of Edward Kennedy it was his brother Robert who asked Archbishop Richard Cushing to suppress Fr.Leonard Feeney.
Monday, September 14, 2009Augustine. Aquinas. Luther. Bobby Kennedy?! [Mike Potemra]Yes, it looks like all four played historic roles in the shaping of Christian theology. Reading Teddy Kennedy’s memoir, True Compass, just published today and already No. 2 on Amazon, I discovered a remarkable anecdote about how Bobby Kennedy may have been a crucial figure in the suppression of the controversial Boston Jesuit, Fr. Leonard Feeney. In Senator Ted’s account, Bobby, while a student at Harvard, was outraged at hearing Feeney declare that no non-Catholic can be saved:[Bobby] discussed it with our father one weekend at the Cape house. I well remember the conversation.Dad could not believe that Bobby had heard Father Feeney correctly. “But,” he said, “if you feel strongly that you did, I’m going to go into the other room and call Richard. Maybe he’ll want you to go up to Boston and see him.”“Richard” was Richard Cardinal Cushing. Dad and the cardinal enjoyed a long and profound friendship. . . .Bobby said he felt strongly indeed. Bang! Dad called up “Richard” and arranged for Bobby to visit him. The cardinal, as nonplussed as Dad, sent some of his people over to hear Father Feeney’s Thursday evening lecture. When he found that my brother was right, Cushing banned Feeney from speaking there; Feeney refused to obey the order, and in September 1949 the archdiocese formally condemned the priest’s teaching. . . . In February 1952, Father Feeney was excommunicated.I knew someone a few years ago who was a close friend of Father Feeney; I have it on his authority that Feeney was a very decent fellow. But Feeney was, in fact, teaching a crudely literalistic understanding of the doctrine of “extra ecclesiam nulla salus” (outside the church, no salvation) in which “ecclesiam” meant the visible, hierarchical Roman Catholic Church, and “extra” meant outside of it in the most visible sense. No Rahnerian “anonymous Christians” here — or, for that matter, Ratzingerian “as many [ways to God] as there are people.” The excommunication of Feeney was a public declaration by Pius XII’s Vatican that Feeney’s interpretation was impermissible in Catholic theology. How important was Bobby Kennedy’s intervention? Teddy doesn’t exactly underemphasize it: "I believe, though I cannot be certain, that Bobby's concern resulted, over time, in . . . a major shift in Catholic teaching regarding the possibility of salvation for non-Catholics. . . . Bobby wasn’t the only critic of Father Feeney, of course, but he was among the first to achieve results. Nor did his principled gesture end with the banishment of Feeney. Reinforced by Cardinal Cushing’s discussions with the papal hierarchy in Rome, it became an animating impulse of the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, which opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962."(I need to confess, yet again, my weakness for Irish blarney.) A confrontation between Father Feeney and the young Bobby Kennedy has been written about already; but I have never seen it alleged that Bobby and his father played an active role in the downfall of Feeney and his doctrine. This incident would go a long way toward explaining the later attitude of the Kennedys (most of them) to the Catholic Church: that it’s basically an ecclesiastical counterpart to the U.S. Senate, a place where reasonable people — who know whom to lean on, and how — can get mistakes in the law corrected.N.B. Unlike certain other Massachusetts senators who shall remain nameless, Teddy got the Pope’s name right.09/14 09 The Corner, National Review. (National Review, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10016,USA Tel: 212-679-7330)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDE4MGJhOGJlZWFiMzEzNjM2ODNkY2EyMzM4OGJlYWQ=
Continued http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2010/07/robert-kennedy-asked-richard-cushing-to.html
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2021/04/repost-robert-kennedy-asked-richard.html
MAY 10, 2024
We have a Cushingite Catholic Church. Over the centuries it was Feeneyite. Cushingism is irrational, heretical, non traditional and schismatic. It is the norm in the Church today
MAY 9, 2024
Cardinal Sean O Malley interprets the Nicene, Apostles and Athanasius Creed with Cushingism and I choose Feeneyism. We are both in the same Novus Ordo main line Catholic Church.
Fr.Georges Laire, Judicial Vicar, in the diocese of Manchester in New Hampshire, USA, is still not clarifying the diocese doctrinal position on Vatican Council II( rational) and extra ecclesiam nulla salus ( rational) yet he maintains a Decree of Prohibitions against Brother Andre Marie micm, at the St. Benedict Center in New Hampshire, USA.
Bishop Peter Libasci, the bishop of Manchester, USA, interprets Vatican Council II and EENS with Cushingism. For Brother Andre Marie Vatican Council II and EENS are Feeneyite.
- Cushingism confuses what is invisible as being visible
- Feeneyism sees what is invisible as being only invisible in 2024.
Cardinal Sean O Malley interprets the Nicene, Apostles and Athanasius Creed with Cushingism and I choose Feeneyism. We are both in the same Novus Ordo main line Catholic Church. - Lionel Andrades
MAY 7, 2024
Cardinal Sean O'Malley must avoid schism
MAY 6, 2024
Bishops Robert McManus and Bishop Peter Libasci must interpret the Creeds rationally
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2024/05/blog-post_6.html
AY 6, 2024
The Novus Ordo bishops would be Feeneyite like the traditionalists
https://eucharistandmission.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-novus-ordo-bishops-would-be.html
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