[1] In 1924 de Boynes carried out an investigation into a paper which interpreted the doctrine of original sin in the light of modern science; he completed the investigation and concluded that it had been written by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, but Teilhard regretted the publishing of the paper.
To their consternation they learned that he had not chosen Father Schurmans whom he had made vicar general four years previously but Alessio Magni, the Italian Assistant.
As per Jesuit rules in such circumstances, the seniormost professed fathers present in Rome had to gather and elect a new Vicar General.
Father de Boynes made this assertion a mere eight months after Vichy had issued its own Jewish statutes.
Whatever Father de Boynes' other claims on consideration for the office, his election is viewed by some[citation needed] as an uncomfortable revelation of the conservative bias still existing in the Roman houses.