I would say it's all about what happened to Fr. Feeney, but it's docuмented from Fr. Feeney's point of view rather than the Jєω crooks' point of view. It's a good book, and even if readers get nothing else out of it, they should get that it shows the methods the crooks used back then to smear a good priest - and being time tested, are still the same smear tactics used most proficiently today.
From The Introduction:
This book is going to press one year after the people of the United States, and eventually the people of the
world were shocked by, a stubborn profession of faith made on the part of some Boston Catholics, who were
at once silenced and interdicted by the ecclesiastical and sacerdotal authorities in what has come to be known
far and wide as the “Boston Heresy Case.”
The strangest feature of this case is not, as might be commonly supposed, that some Boston Catholics were
holding heresy and were being rebuked by their legitimate superiors. It is, rather, that these same Catholics
were accusing their ecclesiastical superiors and academic mentors of teaching heresy, and as thanks for
having been so solicitous were immediately suppressed by these same authorities on the score of being
intolerant and bigoted. If history takes any note of this large incident (in what is often called the most
Catholic city in the United States) it may interest historians to note that those who were punished were never
accused of holding heresy, but only of being intolerant, unbroadminded and disobedient. It is also to be
noted that the same authorities have never gone to the slightest trouble to point out wherein the accusation
made against them by the “Boston group” is unfounded. In a heresy case usually a subject is being punished
by his superior for denying a doctrine of his church. In this heresy case a subject of the Church is being
punished by his superior for professing a defined doctrine.
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