NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Lay WtgUantes History has a way of repeating itself on the Feeneyites, the followers of Father Leonard Feeney who made so much commotion in the 1940s, 1950s over extra...
...He was one of four Americans representing Friendshipment, a coalition of American religious and peace groups that plans a 100-bed hospital in the village made infamous by Lieutenant Calley...
...he demanded...
...A legal communication was sent around, saying that the diocese did not wish to prosecute or interfere with the men...
...Auxiliary Bishop John MeDowell, who tends the jail among other duties, got the diocese's chief legal ofricer, Father Adam Maida, on the stick...
...But the pressure for both possibilities builds steadily...
...Austin Miles, an Assemblies of God "show-business chaplain" in New York, told of Jonathan Winters' experience at church a few weeks ago: "After the service, the priest began asking him to let his name be used in fund raising, to speak at a meeting, to do other things...
...By way of completing the cast of characters, the judge ordering prosecution was a Catholic...
...The businessman, enchanted by the Feeneyites' special brand of Catholic conservatism, coughed up $100 for the cause--then, financial conservatism rearing its inevitable head, had second thoughts...
...Or what they wear...
...Schneiders is alive and well, and was recently in White Plains, N.Y., as President Carter's representative at the launching of a municipal information and referral project of a type that the President is interested in developing throughout the country...
...In Philadelphia, the major archdiocesan seminary, St...
...The police were summoned, the Feeneyites were checked oH, and clamped in Allegheny County Jail for soliciting money while being dressed in a certain way and ostensibly misrepresenting a certain religion...
...In its story of April 29 headed YOUNO MEN WHO TOOK CHANCE ON CARTER GET RICH REWARDS, t h e New York Times listed Schneiders as "Director, White House Projects," at a salary of $48,500...
...We are not ordaining enough diocesan priests to provide adequate service throughout the diocese," said Bishop Edward C. O'Leary of Portland...
...Friendshipment has raised $150,000 towards materials and equipment...
...We have not been turning people over to the secular arm for quite a while," he sneered...
...Jailing those chaps was not the American way, nor was it the Catholic way...
...Msgr...
...What business is it of the police whether people are in gOOd standing with the Church or not...
...This time in Pittsburgh, the story had a different twist, however...
...And just recently a French bishop spoke out on behalf of a married clergy...
...That's only $2500 less than what the appointments secretary makes...
...In the asresting officer's words, they "belonged to a faction not reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church...
...Charles Owen Rice, columnist for the Pittsburgh Catholic and long-time defender of the underdog, was horrified...
...the Vietnamese are supplying the labor...
...rabid response by individual policemen and legal officials, again often Catholics and reacting primarily as the Catholics they happened to be rather than as impartial officers of the law...
...Is the pestering of the entertainment celebrity very much different when he goes to church from when he sits down in a restaurant...
...The Vatican resists such obvious and ecclesiastically just solutions to the world vocations problems as the ordaining of women and married men...
...The occasion was the groundbreaking ceremonies...
...complaint from the solicited, often a Catholic...
...Bishop Guy Riobe of Orleans said he was not opposed to consecrated celibacy...
...During the same period, the number of newly ordained priests had decreased by almost one-third...
...News & Views, 1/7/77...
...Words fell on deaf lay ears...
...Instead of the Catholic powerhouse being involved in the crackdown, or neutrally observing the proceedings while secretly relishing the Feeneyites' discomfiture, the Pittsburgh Chancery sought to counter the vigilantism...
...Recently, two brothers of the sprinter, unreconstructed Feeney community were in Pittsburgh, where they had gained the office o f ' a Catholic businessman Of means...
...last September, it drew only 17...
...Ah, but the gap in prestige and visibilityl Odds a~ E~ --Ron Ridenhour, the Vietnam vet who first exposed the My Lai massacre, was back in Vietnam recently under happier circumstances...
...It's a story as old as the Feeney movement itself: financial solicitation...
...But celibacy, he declared,, must be free and a married clergy would enhance the witness of those who freely choose celibacy...
...Winters said, 'Look, pal, I didn't come to church to give...
...Charles Borromeo, two years ago accepted 34 new candidates for the priesthood...
...The moral of the story, said Rice, is that "cops and magistrates can cause you an immense amount of trouble if you offend their prejudices . . . . Can you imagine what happens to some of the poor and friendless7 Do you wonder that I get furious over injustices that I have seen...
...Philadelphia, Pa., and Portland, Me., provide some idea of how these figures translate on the local level...
...PoRgleal Parousia Whatever happened to Greg Schneiders, the "complex young no-man" of Jimmy Carter's election campaign, who was headed for the post of presidential appointments secretary until some bad business ventures in his past and an impolitic WashingValley Advocate/LN8 ton Post interview about Catholicism caught up with him...
...While Pope Paul was urging Catholics last month to pray for more vocations, the Vatican was releasing statistics which showed the number of priests throughout the world declining from 425,000 in 1969 to 400,000 in 1974...
...In Portland, meanwhile, the city's largest parish was being turned over to four members of the Capuchin Franciscans from White Plains, N.Y...
...Dee||n|~qW Voeag|ons The vocations picture continues to be bleak for Roman Catholicism, in the composite and the specific...
...NEWS & VIEWS Lay WtgUantes History has a way of repeating itself on the Feeneyites, the followers of Father Leonard Feeney who made so much commotion in the 1940s, 1950s over extra ecclesiam nulla salus, the proposition that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation...
...Three new Gallup Polls show a sharp increase in Catholic support for the ordination of women since last January's Vatican declaration squelching the idea--or so it was intended...
...I came to receive something.'" JOHN DEEDY 27 May 1977:322...
...One of the Feeneyites was eventually released, but the other was held for trial on a charge of conspiracy...
Vol. 104 • May 1977 • No. 11
