The new Vatican II accommodations to Protestants and other religionists took many years to spread through the church and become accepted. I can vividly remember a specific incident while attending Bishop Kearney Catholic High School in Rochester in the early 1970s. Irish Christian Brother, John “Cookie” Gilchrist, was teaching our religion class and reiterated the traditional Catholic teaching that only baptized Catholics had a chance of meriting Heaven. One of my classmates, Dennis Kennelly, strongly challenged Gilchrist, stating that a Protestant friend of his was a “good person” and had as much of a chance at Heaven as anyone else. Gilchrist’s face turned scarlet as he struggled to control his anger. He insisted that the church taught that only baptized Catholics could possibly merit Heaven. Amazingly, the Catholic religious instructor was not aware of the Vatican II ecuмenical reforms ten years after the fact!!!

I don't know.  Maybe he felt too old, too tired, ran out of funding, etc.  Toward the end of his life, he did suffer from various heart issues and Parkinson's disease.  Not sure if it was already making itself felt by 1959.

So it appears that the B'nai B'right tried to get the feds to investigate Father Feeney, but I guess free speech had yet to be completely eroded back then.

Thank you so much for this.  I hadn't been able to find Triumph prior to this.  You've made my day.

Not if you're using "DownThemAll" (Firefox plug-in).  Don't know if I'm going to attempt that or not, not sure it'd work with Anna's Archives, you never know until you try.

I archive massive amounts of stuff and make redundant backups.

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Did you see the name of that website? "Ex Catholic". I looked at the About page on there and sure enough the author of the site (who also wrote what you quote here) apostatized into protestantism.

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I was baptized into the Catholic church as an infant, had my first confession and received my first communion when I was seven, and was confirmed when I was ten. All of my parents’ six children attended parochial grammar and Catholic high school. I wouldn’t say my family was piously religious by any stretch, but we did attend mass every Sunday. I was an altar boy from 5th through 8th grades and even entertained the idea of being a priest someday, but lost most of my interest in religion by the time I went to high school. Like most Catholics my “faith” was just a part of my family and cultural baggage. I do remember having a bit of an epiphany in 6th grade when the question occurred to me, “If going to Heaven is a matter of obeying the Ten Commandments and church rules as Catholicism teaches, then why did Jesus have to die on the cross?” Little did I know the Holy Spirit was working in my heart even then.

“I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” – Galatians 2:21

After my wife and I were married and our two sons were born, I was determined to be a responsible Dad and raise our children in the Catholic faith. I began attending mass again and even bought a Catholic Bible. Catholics aren’t generally encouraged to read the Bible and relatively few do. As I read the New Testament I discovered many discrepancies between God’s Word and Catholicism. I became so disillusioned that I stopped attending mass. As I continued to read the Bible a couple of born-again Christians witnessed to me at work. I found from the Bible that salvation cannot possibly be earned by baptism, church membership, obeying the Ten Commandments, or trying to be “good” as Catholicism teaches, salvation for sinful man is only by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ ALONE!

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Did you see the name of that website? "Ex Catholic". I looked at the About page on there and sure enough the author of the site (who also wrote what you quote here) apostatized into protestantism.