POPE’S ACTION
REMOVAL OF PRIMATE. OHUROH BENBATION IN FRANOE. CLIMAX TO LONG CONTROVERSY. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. PARIS, May 16. A sensation has been caused in Roman Catholic circles throughout France owing to the Pope removing the septuagenarian Monsignor Villerabel, Primate of Normandy, from the Archbishopric of Rouen. This is the climax to a long controversy in which Monsignor Villerabel took action for the alleged misappropriation of funds against his vicar-gen-eral, Monsignor Bertin, in the Civil Court Instead of in the Ecclesiastical Court, thus infringing canon law.
The Diocesan Courts had already convicted Monsignor Bertin, but the Vatican quashed the conviction. Thereupon the Ministry of the Interior intervened and reopened the case. Three times Monsignor Villerabel refused to resign on the ground that by so doing he would admit a fault of which he was not guilty.
The Pope has appointed the Archbishop of Cambria to administer the archdiocese, but Monsignor Villerabel refuses to leave the Palace, which he holds on a lease from the Government.
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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167POPE’S ACTION Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7
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