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Encyclopedia > Father Leonard Feeney

Father Leonard Feeney (1897-1978) was an American Jesuit priest who defended the Catholic doctrine extra ecclesiam nulla salus, or "outside the church there is no salvation", arguing that baptism of blood and baptism of desire are unavailing and all non-Catholics therefore go to Hell. He was officially excommunicated in 1953 by Pope Pius XII for refusing to submit to ecclesiastical authority, but his supporters claim that the excommunication was invalid because the correct procedure was not followed. He was reconciled to the church before his death, but was allegedly not required to retract his position on the doctrine, which is inscribed on his tombstone.


External links

  • Father Feeney website (http://web.archive.org/web/20040225072649/http%3A//fatherfeeney.org/) (At the Internet Archive)
  • Tragic Errors of Leonard Feeney (http://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/FEENEY.TXT)
  • "The Case of Fr. Leonard Feeney" (http://alcazar.net/Feeney2.html) -- Essay examining Leonard Feeney's life and excommunication.
  • The St Benedict Center (http://www.catholicism.org) -- The religious center run by supporters of Leonard Feeney in Boston.

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Feeney recognized that the root of the church's inner problems and failure to convert America to the true Faith(and elsewhere throughout the world) was the result of a suppression of the thrice-defined dogma that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation.
Feeney -- not obeying the summons to Rome -- is a matter for a court or judge to weigh.
Leonard Feeney was unjustly treated and persecuted by fellow churchmen in positions of authority who abused the authority of the offices they held and brought up uncanonical charges of disobedience to this priest of Christ's Church.
Fr. Feeney Facts (3812 words)
Feeney were both grave and numerous and that he intended to persevere in the dispositions that produced these acts and thus had no intention of amending his ways, Fr.
Leonard Feeney was excommunicated for a disobedience that was both grave and scandalous.
Feeney was given the opportunity to appear before the Holy Office, where he could defend his charge of heresy and his interpretation of the doctrine “outside the Church there is no salvation,” he refused to take it.
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