Show SUPREME COURT WILL Willi RULE ON CATHOLIC SOCIETIES V J A May Rule Rath That Poverty Vows Do Dei Not Conform l 1 With Public Poli Policy y WASHINGTON March X 9 Upon 1 Upon the decision of the tho supreme court In a case caseto caseto to o b be b considered this thin week may rest tho the future of ot every brotherhood and sisterhood sister sister- hood of the Catholic church In the United States Staten The court will decide whether the ha vows of ot poverty in these orders are against public polio policy as recently decided by the tho United d Status States circuit court of or ap appeals appeals p ap- peals peats of ot the eighth district The case 40 In Question arises arise out ut of the thede de death th of ot Fath Father r Wirra n a member of ot the Order of or St at Benedict Benedict- Boneo who at tko the time of ot his hL death In 1901 was was- In charge of or orthe the he German Catholic church at Springfield Spring Spring- field Minn Mimi Nearly fifty years sears before before Ws hJ death he took ook the th vows of ot the Benedictine society of or chastity poverty and obedience By Sy y this his vow all al alf his right of ot I possessions property prop prop- property ert erty was transferred d to the order an and the he order b became came obligated to support him for tor life Because of or superior Work In Minnesota Minne sota o rather Father Wirth was permitted pos possession posses posses- f 5 Ion don lot of some Iome In addition to troyal- troyal royalties royal royal- tI ties from books he be had written The probate court of ot Brown county count Minnesota r recognized hJ his helm heirs as en entitled entitled entitled en- en titled to property They ThoY succeeded Med In getting gotting get got ting tinge a. a decision from the United States circuit court that the vow of poverty was against public policy and Md therefore void The rho heirs were held entitled to tho the prop prop- rOp crt erti In the In the tho application for tor the supreme court to review the the tho decision It was pointed out that tat t tho the decision might affect religious rellious I orders of the Episcopal church and some omo of the Protestant churches |