| Show PRIESTS WIN OVER BISHOPS the nebraska catholic clash decided bishop bonacum must pay damages and expenses Ex pences according to the decision of the metropolitan see dubuque la dec I 1 the judgment of the metropolitan ecclesiastical court of the roman church in the famous case of bishop bonacum of lincoln neb against fathera fitzgerald and murphy of bis diocese was delivered today the court finds for the priests against the bishop on every point in the appeal which was ordered by the propaganda at rome after delegate satolli bad re fused to grant one the bishop is judged to have been actuated by sinister sin iscer and motives to have published falsehoods and deceived cardinal satolli the court declares null and void all the of the bishop withdrawing the faculties of the defendant priests sentencing them to do penance in canada for contumacy and condemning them generally the bishop is condemned to pay the expenses of the exonerated priests and the costs of the trial to pay father fill gerald and father murphy damages and 0 o withdraw alie priests be sent to neb where father murphy is rector of saint am church and to auburn keb where father fitzgerald is rector of st josephs church the payments pay menta are ordered to be made to the court within thirty days there ie no appeal from the sentence pronounced the troubles in the diocese of lincoln began boon after the consecration ot bishop bonacum in november 1887 the bishops ol 01 the province ignored the priests of the diocese when it was decided to create a new see and many of them regarded the appointment of the bishop as void the next clash was between the bishop and father kennedy of the cathedral in lincoln over erecting a new edifice then came bitter resentment on the part of the hon patrick egan president john fitzgerald and other prominent lay league leaders against the bishops attempt to stop collection of league funds at church doors in conformity with an edict from romo applicable to ireland cause of diesen eion was the of father walsa pastor of the cathedral because mrs of lincoln arrested for complicity in her husbands in 1891 had alleged that the priest uttered scandal about the bishop after father walsa testified against mrs then a battle began between the bishop and the te the former bending every power to drive all the priests who opposed him from the diocese and the latter defending their civil and ecclesiastical rights vigorously in 1891 father corbett of palmyra who subsequently sued the bishop for libel was brought before a diocesan court to answer charges made by the bead father a of tecumseh presided and the charges against the palmyra priests were dismissed this made the bishop furious but on appeal the lower court was sustained in 1893 fifteen priests of the diocese filed a long bill of charges with mgr satolli against their bishop and the apostolic delegato came to omaha lie decided that the cues should go to the metropolitan of the province and induced the fighting bishop to sign a trace with the priests which the bichop Is accused of breaking this let to more trouble and the corbett bonacum fight in the civil courts father murphy banned the charges and father fitzgerald became involved by signing the protest which was sent to mgr satolli by the against the bishops alleged violation of the truce aad threatening to prove the charges on trial of the injunction cages in the civil courts the result of the protest was that imperative orders were bent to archbishop by the propaganda and mgr satolli to bear the charges at once fathers murphy and fitzgerald maintained that the bishop undertook to destroy them that the charges against himself could not be revived he bent them letters of ion from the diocese for failure to pay the diocesan tax the bishop went to the civil courts to get of father murphys church but was beaten elx times and ex com muni cation 0 all persons who attended their rasters vices the metropolitan court trial began october in st joseph college here archbishop abdicated as judge in favor of rev peter abbatt ot marshal michigan an authority on canonical law bishop bonacum was present only the first day the prosecution was conducted by alev father slattery of new hampton iowa and the defense by father fitzpatrick of dubuque |
