Both were seniors and scheduled to be graduated in two weeks. Miss Coulombe and her fianc , Thomas H. Sennott, of Arlington, laid their case before Father Feeney, who promised his support . . . . Cambridge, Mass., May 26, 1949. D.C. Local ecclesiastical authorities once more refused matrimony to two members of St. Benedict Center School. We request your personal intervention to remove this outrage against justice and this act of persecution against those who profess doctrines of the Catholic Faith and the necessity of loyalty to the Holy Father for salvation.
Popular indignation is high.
Request speed in responding to our pleas. The Members of St. Benedict Center. During the week following their visit to Doris' parish rectory, Tom and Doris tried frantically to do everything in their power to secure the publishing of their marriage banns in their churches. It is a rule of the Church that banns of marriage must be read at Mass for three Sundays before a marriage takes place, both in the parish church of the bride and in the church of the bridegroom. There, according to Mr. Sennott, Miss Coulombe and Mr. Walsh discussed the issue with Monsignor Walter J. Furlong, the Chancellor.