Ryan v. Dunzilla
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeals, No. 348, Jan. T., 1911, and No. 10, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants and plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., June T., 1910, No. 2, in equity, in case of The Right Rey. Edmond F. Prendergast, Archbishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia, and Rev. A. J. Kaminski v. William Dunzilla, et al. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Brumm, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case.
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Appeals, No. 348, Jan. T., 1911, and No. 10, Jan. T., 1912, by defendants and plaintiffs, from decree of C. P. Schuylkill Co., June T., 1910, No. 2, in equity, in case of The Right Rey. Edmond F. Prendergast, Archbishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia, and Rev. A. J. Kaminski v. William Dunzilla, et al. Bill in equity for an injunction. Before Brumm, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. The court entered the following decree: And now, May 1,1911, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendants be restrained perpetually from taking up a collection at the portals of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
The respondents admit that, under the canons and laws of the Roman Catholic Church, the complainants — the archbishop of the Diocese of Philadelphia and the priest sent by him to St. George’s Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church of Shenandoah — are vested with the control and authority which they claim; and this control, as the court below properly held, extends to “everything relating to the congregation, whether it concerns property, spiritual matters, financial affairs, parochial schools or any other question which goes to the government of the parish.” But when…
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