Carini v. Roman Catholic Bishop

The plaintiff in each of the four counts of her declaration seeks to hold the defendant, as a corporation sole, on the ground that he appointed as his agent to take charge of a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Milford, to care for the property of the defendant in that parish and to perform the pastoral and religious duties of a priest therein, one Petrarca, a man who, it is averred, was “of low moral character, ... of vicious and degenerate tendencies and gross sexual proclivities.” She avers that the defendant made this appointment with full knowledge of the bad character and evil…