Legal Opinion
Connell v. St. Francis Monastery
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 13, 1985PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Nicholas A. Clemente, J.
St. Anthony’s High School is owned and operated by the St. Francis Monastery, a religious corporation. The high school, one of the five in the Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, New York (Diocese), had been located in Huntington, New York, until and including the 1983-1984 school year.
In the fall of 1983 the Bishop of the Diocese determined that declining enrollment made it imprudent to operate all of the five high schools and continue the enormous subsidy required. The Bishop thus determined to consolidate the diocesan school system by closing…
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