Religion: Disobedience at St. Benedict's

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Profession of Faith. Jesuit Feeney alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism."

Father Feeney was confident last week that the Pope would eventually back up his stand. To some of his students he announced: "I don't care what happens to me after this. I have made my profession of faith to my country." But though he said he would bow to any disciplinary measures his superiors might take, Father Feeney was still in Boston, still apparently making no move to amend his first disobedience in failing to take a new job at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross. And in spite of Archbishop Cushing's decree, the Feeney school of doctrine was still going full blast. "The Archbishop said nothing about closing St. Benedict Center School" explained stubborn Jesuit Feeney.