Word: bordeleau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prayerful and penitent last week were six Roman Catholics of Montreal-Albert Desjardins, Adonis Paquette, Alfred L'Archeveque, Lyall Huet, Edouard Pharon, H. N. Bordeleau. For four months they had been excommunicated, damned, cut off from the Sacraments of their Church. Reason: they had "dared cite" their Archbishop in civil court, without his permission. Now they awaited another decree (from the Holy See) restoring them to grace. They had bowed to the Church's will, acknowledged their error...
...ecclesiastic or a religious corporation may not be sued without his or its permission. Although the plaintiffs said they asked for permission five times, they received no reply. They went ahead and sued anyway. Then the Consistorial Congregation announced that by their act they had incurred excommunication. Plaintiff Bordeleau, alarmed, ducked out of the suit last January. The other plaintiffs last fortnight withdrew their suit against the Archbishop and the corporation. Said their counsel: "It is said, the Gauls feared only one thing, that Heaven might fall on their heads. Well! That is very much what happened." But the suit...
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