FORGIVEN BY BISHOP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 116, 18 May 1944, Page 5

FORGIVEN BY BISHOP

PRIEST WHO SAW STALIN #NEW YORK, May 16. Bishop O'Leary has lifted the suspension of Father Orlemanski upon receiving a written apology from the priest. In his letter Father Orlemanski said: "I regret the seeming disregard for my Church's legislation and directives, and I hasten to apologise for the-lack of respect for the ecclesiastical authorities which could have been inferred from my absence. It is now my fixed purpose to promise to cease and separate myself from all activities not in accord with the rule and mind of the Catholic Church. "I also wish to make known that the Springfield Chancery Office has notified me that my message to the Apostolic Delegate, which merely contained questions and answers already printed throughout America, was received at the delegation and that the message will be given consideration and referred by the Apostolic Delegate to the proper Church authorities." In Press reports on his "good-will mission" to Moscow Father Orlemanski, *^a Polish-American _ from Springfield, Massachusetts, said he went to see what he could do for the Catholic Church in Poland, the Ukraine, and White Russia, but Marshal Stalin agreed to co-operate with the Church against persecution anywhere. Future events would prove that Marshal Stalin was very friendly disposed towards the Roman Catholic Church, Father Orlemanski declared. On his return he came under the Roman Catholic authorities' discipline for absenting himself without his bishop's leave and treating with Communists "against canonical law.