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'''Leonard Feeney''' (1897-1978) was a [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] priest, [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]] and founder of several [[:Category:Hate groups|hate groups]]. He was born in Lynn, [[Massachusetts]] on 15 February 1897. In 1914 he became a [[Jesuit]] Novitiate of Saint Andrew in [[New York]], with whom he studied for 14 years before taking religious vows as a son of Saint Ignatius, being ordained a priest on 20 June 1928. In the 1930s and early 1940s Fr. Feeney had attracted a large number of supporters, who were known as ''Feeneyites''.
 
'''Leonard Feeney''' (1897-1978) was a [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] priest, [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]] and founder of several [[:Category:Hate groups|hate groups]]. He was born in Lynn, [[Massachusetts]] on 15 February 1897. In 1914 he became a [[Jesuit]] Novitiate of Saint Andrew in [[New York]], with whom he studied for 14 years before taking religious vows as a son of Saint Ignatius, being ordained a priest on 20 June 1928. In the 1930s and early 1940s Fr. Feeney had attracted a large number of supporters, who were known as ''Feeneyites''.
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Fr. Feeney founded and led the '''Saint Benedict Center''', which was located across the street from [[Harvard University]]. He also formed a religious association known as the '''Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary'''. Feeney and his feeneyites often preached at Boston Common, but due to the inflammatory nature and "[[Jew]] baiting" common to his oratories, the police were usually required to be on hand to protect him and his followers from the crowd. Fr. Feeney is remembered for preferring to use the term "kike" when talking of Jewish people. Fr. Feeney taught that Jews were descended from [[Satan]].
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Fr. Feeney founded and led the '''Saint Benedict Center''', which was located across the street from [[Harvard University]]. He also formed a religious association known as the '''Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary'''. Feeney and his feeneyites preached every Sunday at Boston Common, but due to the inflammatory nature and "[[Jew]] baiting" common to his oratories, the police were usually required to be on hand to protect him and his followers from the crowd. Fr. Feeney is remembered for preferring to use the term "kike" when talking of Jewish people. Fr. Feeney taught that Jews were descended from [[Satan]].
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Fr. Feeney regularly warned the students at Harvard "not to become like their secular and atheistic professors, who were responsible for [inventions] such as the atom bomb," although he found this missionary work very discouraging and once said: "How can I convince Catholic students that they are losing their faith at Harvard when my own brothers in religion, (i.e. Jesuits) are getting degrees there?" He also accused the Catholic Boston College of having "lost the faith and teaching heresy, namely that salvation could be obtained outside the One True Church".
    
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