Word: velascos
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Henry Pryor Almon Abbott learned last week that he must remain on duty as bishop (Episcopalian) of the Lexington, Ky., diocese. Bishop Abbott tendered his resignation last month after one of his parish priests, Julius Arnold Velasco, had married a Roman Catholic girl against the bishop's insistence. A diocese court cleared the priest of everything but using defamatory language against his chief (TIME...
Last January Rev. Julius Arnold Velasco, 31, rector of St. John's Church (Episcopal) of Dayton, Ky., journeyed to Ellicott City, Md. There, by a Catholic priest, he was married to a Catholic girl, blonde Catherine Rogers. Quickly, back in Kentucky, rumor began to spread that Rector Velasco had broken a promise. His ecclesiastical brethren in the diocese of Lexington, Ky., had known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would resign his orders. Greatly exercised...
Fortnight ago Rector Velasco was placed on trial before an ecclesiastical court of five local Episcopal priests, charged with: 1) violating his preordination pledge; 2) conduct unbecoming a minister; 3) using defamatory language about Bishop Abbott. Rector Velasco claimed that his pledge had been revoked before his nuptials. Said he: "Love does not wait on religious persuasion. I married her not because she is a Roman Catholic but in spite of it. . . . I want my orders as much as any man ever wanted to serve his God, but I see no reason why I should not marry the girl...
Holding, despite the court findings, that Rector Velasco had broken his "plighted and written pledge," that it would be impossible for a bishop to recognize such a man in his diocese, Bishop Abbott last week went to a meeting in Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington; characterized the sentence of a reprimand as "absurd." Then he astounded his colleagues by resigning his Bishopric. Afterwards he donned knickers and an eyeshade, sought the quiet golf links. Said he: "So far as I am concerned, the Roman Catholic issue made no difference. . . . It was merely a question of the honor and integrity...