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According to Reverend Thomas E. Brennan, it took just one outspoken peer to dissuade at least 13 students from attending Mass at St. Paul’s parish. Brennan, Harvard’s undergraduate Catholic chaplain, says that one individual, who has since graduated, was named by those 13 students as the reason they no longer went to church. Some students stopped coming because they felt they were no longer worthy of the church; others felt that the church was no longer a place worthy of their time...
According to Reverend Robert P. Bucciarelli ’56, an Opus Dei priest, however, no student associated with Opus Dei ever threatened the “tent” Brennan visualizes; he calls his fellow priest’s story a lie. “It didn’t happen. It’s a lie—L-I-E,” he says...
What distinguishes the Reverend from the rest, though, is what brought him back four years ago. He is a slim priest with enthusiastic eyebrows and a cool sliver of a smile, and he is no longer here simply to study...
This priest, though, according to his successor, Reverend Joseph Collins, was not universally welcomed by Harvard’s student body. “I think that the students got the impression that if they joined the [Harvard Catholic] club, they’d have to join Opus Dei,” Collins says...
Another, more highly publicized removal of an Opus Dei priest from a college campus occurred at Princeton University in 1990, when Princeton’s Catholic chaplain dismissed Reverend C. John McCloskey, whose removal had been petitioned by students charging that McCloskey’s presence threatened student welfare, according to a 1995 report in America, a national Catholic newsweekly. The article also reported that McCloskey, who is now the director of the Catholic Information Center in D.C., denied all charges...