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Show PRIEST REFUSES TO HE REIVED BY BISHOP EXPLAINS HIS POSITION SUNDAY TO PARISHONERS. He Would Not Pay Note of $10,000, Held by Bishop Against One of Parishoners. Denver. Colo, June 14. During a fceraion to the congregation of St. Click's Catholic church yesterday. Rev. J. p. Carrigan gave an explanation ex-planation of his trouble with Bi6hop Jatz, which resulted in an order of removal against, the former but hicb order Father Carrigan has re-JUiSP'l re-JUiSP'l to observe. Father Carrigan charges that Bishop Bish-op Matz demanded that a Catholic loan joriation, of which Father Carrigan Is a dh oclor.to pay a note of 10.000 held "' the bishop against a parlshoner, and ho threatened the priest with sus-I'nsion sus-I'nsion unless this demand was com-Pl'cd com-Pl'cd with. Father Carrigan declared 'tat compliance with the bishop's or-dpr or-dpr would have rendered him liable to funlfchnient by Imprisonment, to say nothing of the Injustice such a course oul, navc hcen to the asHoclation, In which ho held a position of trust, atl(l o its members. failure t ronipl-, Father Carrigan declared, T'3i the cause nf his suspension, and ne ortlor warning tho parls'ionerK of st Patrick's church and thp nuns en-in en-in teaching there to have no (tirthor relations with the priest. An emlssarv of the bishop is lw his wav to' Rome lo lay the matter Wore Pope piuu. |