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New Jesuit General. Fr. Nicolas is a cheerful and optimistic person, not to mention well-versed in theology and spirituality. He first came to Japan in 1961 and has spent most of his time since then …More
New Jesuit General.

Fr. Nicolas is a cheerful and optimistic person, not to mention well-versed in theology and spirituality. He first came to Japan in 1961 and has spent most of his time since then in Japan and the Philippines. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Japanese, and several other European languages. As a professor of theology, he is quite familiar with the current religious crises confronting the Church and the Society, and as a former Provincial of Jesuits in Japan, he has the experience of facing major challenges. Fr. Nicolas has shown special interest in helping the poor, immigrants, and refugees, and has personally spent three years, after completing his term as the Provincial, working for immigrant laborers in Japan. At least in Japan, most Bishops know him well as he was a professor of theology, teaching both at Sophia University and at the Tokyo diocesan seminary, and has served as a theological consultant to several of them. Given his ever-smiling personality, he has always been popular …
Lionel Andrades
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
JESUIT SUPERIOR GENERAL REVIEW THE FR.LEONARD FEENEY CASE : THERE IS NO KNOWN CASE OF A PERSON SAVED WITH THE BAPTISM OF DESIRE WHICH IS VISIBLE
In a prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney …More
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

JESUIT SUPERIOR GENERAL REVIEW THE FR.LEONARD FEENEY CASE : THERE IS NO KNOWN CASE OF A PERSON SAVED WITH THE BAPTISM OF DESIRE WHICH IS VISIBLE

In a prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney, S.J., both notably ignorant in the field of Catholic theology ... are teaching that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church." - Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome

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We now know that the Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Richard Cushing and the Reverend John J. McEleney S.J. the former Provincial of the New England branch of the Society of Jesus were wrong in assuming that those saved with the baptism of desire or in invincible ignorance are explicitly known to us,that they are real and visible cases and so they contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and Fr.Leonard Feeney.

Fr.Leonard Feeney was correct in saying that there is no baptism ofdesire or invincible ignornance cases that we know of and so they are not exceptions to the dogma defined three times.

Fr.Leonard Feeney was unjustly deprived of his faculties to offer Mass and hear Confession when he was only affirming the centuries old interpretation of the dogma.


The Archbishop of Boston and the Jesuit Superior General did not issue a clarification when the Boston newspapers reported that the Church had changed its ancient teaching on outside the Church there is no salvation.

Instead the Archbishop and the Jesuits began teaching that there was salvation outside the church for those saved in invincible ignorance and the baptism of desire not mentioning that these cases were accepted only on principle de jure and so did not contradict the dogma which indicated that all non Catholics need to convert into the Catholic Church to avoid Hell.

Pope Pius XII in the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 affirmed ‘the dogma’ the ‘infallible teaching’. The dogma CantateDomino, Council of Florence indicates that all non Catholics in Boston and the rest of the world need to convert into the Catholic Church. This was exactly the teaching of Fr.Leonard Feeney for which he was being transferred and silenced.

Even though the Letter of the Holy Office supported the priest the excommunication was not listed and the media was allowed to state that Fr.Leonard Feeney was condemned by the Hly Office.

Justice needs to be done by the present Superior General of the Jesuits Superior General is the Reverend Father Adolfo Nicolás..-Lionel Andrades

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Father Feeney Is Dismissed From Jesuit Order by Rome

Refused to Take Holy Cross Post


By Brenton WELLING Jr.,

Published: Saturday, October 29, 1949

Father Leonard Feeney last night was dismissed from the Jesuit Order.

His discharge, the latest event in his dispute with the Catholic authorities, came in the form of a decree from Rome signed by The Very Reverend Jean Baptiste Janssens, S.J., General of the order,

The decree arrived at St. Benedict's Center at 6 p.m. in a registered letter from The Reverend John J. McEleney S.J. Provincial of the New England branch of the Society of Jesus.

Judicial Process

Father Feeney announced his own dismissal at a press conference last night. He translated from the Latin a sentence of the decree, which said: "Your dismissal from the Society of Jesus through judicial process has been approved."

Father Feeney, who is the chaplain of St. Benedict's commented, "The reason is because I will not leave St. Benedict's Center." He refused to do so in August, 1948, when he was ordered by the Jesuits to join the faculty of Holy Cross.

The reason for his disobedience, Father Feeney said last night, was a "conscience difficulty which Father McEloney will not listen to."

Explains Difficulty

In a prepared statement for the press the former Jesuit added: "The conscience difficulty is that the diocese of Boston, under the auspices of Archbishop Cushing, and Boston College, under the auspices of Father John J. McEloney, S.J., both notably ignorant in the field of Catholic theology ... are teaching that there is salvation outside the Catholic Church."

Archishop Cushing declined to comment on this statement last night, and Father MeEleney could not be reached.

Father Feeney's insistence that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church has been the cause of the con- troversy which has gene on between the Archbishop and the Jesuits, on the one hand, and Father Feeney, on the other, since October 1947. Last January Father Feeney was "deprived on his faculties" by Archbishop Cushing. This meant that he could no longer say Mass or hear confession.

Despite this and the more recent punishment, Father Feeney announced last night, "I shall continue as a Catholic priest, loyal and devoted to the Church and to the Pope, at St. Benediet's Center."

The faculty and students of St. Benedict's in a statement signed by the secretary of the School, said last night; "Many of us have at one time or another been associated with Jesuit institutions, and know that their policies of late are motivated more by political expediency than by Christian charity. -Harvard Crimson online.

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