Word: interdicting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interdict, first in Cleveland's history,* was imposed by able Archbishop Joseph Schrembs. Reason: the people of Holy Redeemer parish had caused "public scandal," made "a holy show" of themselves. Latins, like Polish Catholics, sometimes love the minor authority of the priest more than the major authority of the Church. The parish seethed with resentment last month when it learned that it was to have a new priest, Father Vincent Caruso. It wanted Father Louis Loi-Zed-da, who had been assistant in the church for seven years. Two Sundays ago, when Archbishop Schrembs attempted to have Father Caruso...
Last week that rare and awful punishment, an interdict, brooded like a judgment over a Roman Catholic parish in Cleveland. Closed was Holy Redeemer Church. Cut off from the sacraments of marriage, of Holy Communion, of penance, of ordination, were its 1,100 Italian families: no baptisms, no confirmations, no parochial school. Only one sacrament was left in Holy Redeemer parish: Extreme Unction, which the Church gives to all its children-good, bad, or indifferent-who are about...
Last week Archbishop Schrembs decreed that his interdict should stand indefinitely. But "innocent people of the parish, and those who repent of their crime," could go to neighboring churches, if they made certain acts of submission. Said the Archbishop: "The purpose of this decree is not revenge, since revenge is unknown to the Church of Christ; its purpose is to lead erring children . . . lovingly back to their Father's House...