Religion: St. Knute, St. Joyce?

A zealous Jesuit and a poet with a substantial Catholic following is Rev. Leonard Feeney, 39, author of Fish on Friday, Riddle and Reverie, Boundaries. Dark, wiry Father Feeney taught English at Boston College from the time of his ordination nine years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said...

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