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Bobby Kennedy and Fr. Feeney
« on: August 16, 2016, 12:07:28 PM »
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    • http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/bobby-kennedy-the-parish-priest-of-the-clan-34958249.html

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    Back in his undergraduate days, he [Kennedy] joined other Harvard Catholics at lectures by Father Leonard Feeney, an influential Jesuit priest who warned that the Jews "are trying to take over this city" and preached that only Catholics could be saved. Bobby was embarrassed enough by those diatribes to discuss them with his brother Ted and his father, who arranged for him to meet Archbishop Cushing to convey his concern.

    Even a Kennedy found it difficult to confront a prelate in those days, and Bobby's courage likely played a role in Feeney's eventual expulsion from his order and excommunication from the Church.
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    "The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a man who thinks other people can get along without It. The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a communicant who thinks he needs It but someone else does not. The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a communicant who offers others any charity ahead of this Charity of the Bread of Life." -Fr. Leonard Feeney, Bread of Life

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    Bobby Kennedy and Fr. Feeney
    « Reply #1 on: August 16, 2016, 12:11:59 PM »
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    • And then there is this from Culture Wars:

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    Particularly interesting is Ted's belief, "though I cannot be certain," that Bobby was responsible for the excommunication of Fr. Leonard Feeney. Bobby was "troubled" that Fr. Feeney taught "that salvation for people outside the Catholic Church was impossible. … 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."

    "Bobby said he felt strongly indeed. Bang! Dad called up 'Richard' and arranged for Bobby to visit him," leading, Ted says, to the Cardinal's banning Fr. Feeney from speaking, the condemnation of his teachings and the suspension of his duties, and then his excommunication. "Nor did [Bobby's] 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 Ecuмenical Council of the Vatican, which opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962." Those who think the Holy Spirit inspired Vatican II might be a bit surprised to find out that Bobby Kennedy was its animating impulse.


    http://www.culturewars.com/2013/Kennedy.htm

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    "The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a man who thinks other people can get along without It. The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a communicant who thinks he needs It but someone else does not. The Blessed Eucharist means nothing to a communicant who offers others any charity ahead of this Charity of the Bread of Life." -Fr. Leonard Feeney, Bread of Life

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    Bobby Kennedy and Fr. Feeney
    « Reply #2 on: August 16, 2016, 12:47:42 PM »
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    • So, RFK consulted the "Catechism of the Kennedy Clan and Cardinal Cushing."
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    "This principle is most certain: The non-Christian cannot in any way be Pope. The reason for this is that he cannot be head of what he is not a member. Now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian, St. Athanasius, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and others. Therefore, the manifest heretic cannot be Pope." -- St. Robert Bellarmine
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