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The Church’s Authority Over Priests

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 15.

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The Church’s Authority Over Priests

IN course of a recent trial in Brooklyn, N. Y., the cause being the suit of a Catholic priest for damages against the Friars Minor of the Order of St. Francis, it was brought out in evidence that the Roman Catholic Church claims perpetual authority over a priest, even tho deprived of his priestly functions, and claims the right to put him in prison if she had the power. The claim remains, but the power has been taken away—temporarily, and in some localities.