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Source: Sun Source type: newspaper Document type: article Document title: “Priest Enjoined by Bishop” Author(s): anonymous City of publication: New York, New York Date of publication: 11 April 1902 Volume number: 69 Issue number: 223 Pagination: 1 |
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| “Priest Enjoined by Bishop.” Sun [New York] 11 Apr. 1902 v69n223: p. 1. |
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| Keywords |
| John J. Ardan; McKinley assassination (sympathizers). |
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| John J. Ardan; Leon Czolgosz; Michael John Hoban; William McKinley. |
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Priest Enjoined by Bishop
Excommunicated, He Goes on with His Work — Praised Czolgosz’s Act.
S, Pa., April
10.—The Rev. John Ardan, a Polish Catholic priest, has been excommunicated by
the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hoban for printing an article in a Polish paper over his
signature saying that Czolgosz did right in assassinating President McKinley.
The priest has gone on performing the duties of pastor as heretofore, marrying
couples, officiating at funerals and holding services, paying no attention to
the order of excommunication, so the courts were to-day asked to grant an injunction
to restrain him, and a preliminary injunction was granted returnable April 16.
Ardan is middle aged and the fact that he had
such radical opinions was not known outside of the church and the Polish colony.
His church is at Olyphant, this county, and is of the Greek Catholic denomination.
The offending article was printed in a Polish paper at Olyphant called the Swoba.
After asserting that Czolgosz did right in killing the President, the article
goes on to say that there should be an equal division of the wealth of the world
and that the only way to bring this about is to kill off the rulers.