I read they were not "regular" on a website run by the Mission Church (Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help) in Roxbury -- I think it is run by Redemptorists. I thought the Mission Church was wrong in its characterization of the Still River people. I'll drop them a polite line and ask for them to remove the codicil they have attached.
I don't know much about Fr. Feeney but I remember my dad telling me (my family met & knew Fr. Feeney slightly) that the situation was so volatile that Cardinal (maybe bishop at the time) Cushing went off to Rome to have the pope intervene. I guess that would have been Pius XII? And Fr. Feeney was therefore chastened.
I also occasionally attend the Tridentine at Trinity. Are you still a "bay stater?"
Fr. Feeney has been called America's most gifted theologian prior to the controversy, and he was widely acknowledged as a gifted poet whose works were read in many Catholic schools. When he got to studying modern errors after WWII, he came to realize the doctrine "No salvation outside the Church" was being supressed. (Pius XII would write in 1950: "Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation." Encyclical Humani Generis)
Cardinal Cushing had Fr. Feeney condemned for preaching the doctrine contained in the Summa Theologica - Explicit Faith, Submission to the Roman Pontiff required, No Salvation outside the Church, and Baptism of Blood and Desire only for Catechumens and similar, and ridiculing the liberals at Boston College and elsehwere. When he would not desist, and insisted instead that Cardinal Cushing was a heretic (which he probably was) and sent a libellus to Rome on that account, Rome ordered him to come to stand trial at the Vatican. When he failed to show, he was excommunicated for disobedience.
You can read the history of the controversy from Fr. Feeney and Sister Catherine's perspective here in "The Loyolas and the Cabots".
One thing to definitely steer clear of in examining the Feeneyite controversy is his critics like Fr. William Most who could not grasp some of the most elementary principals of theology, or worse, purposely misrepresented Fr. Feeney's thoughts and the basics of theology, to make Fr. Feeney out in the worst possible light. I think Fr. Francois Laisney's (SSPX) booklet "Baptism of Desire" is a much better answer than anything Fr. Most ever did.
Regarding the view of the Ratzinger's CDF on this doctrine, see here.
Fr. Feeney's main thoughts are here.
I also occasionally attend the Tridentine at Trinity.
Do you know Rob and Christine Quagan?
Are you still a "bay stater?"
Not any more. I escaped back home!