Religion: Heresy in Boston

"Heresy!" The ancient cry, heard last week in the corridors of Boston College (enrollment: 6,600), was aimed at the Jesuits who direct Boston College. The cry was raised by three young laymen teachers who protested that the Jesuits were teaching doctrines that were against Roman Catholic tenets. For months the laymen teachers had been growing more & more disturbed at what they regarded as too-tolerant views among the Jesuit members of the faculty.

In January they wrote to President William L. Keleher, S.J.

to tell him that heretical doctrines were being taught. Joined by a...

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