Copy letter from Fr. Stephen Murtagh to Bishop Louis B. Kucera

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Los Angeles , California . Dear Father Stephen : Verv Rev. Stephen Murtagh O.M.Cap. the resources of the Community . administration under the circumstances which prevail . since December of 1936 , I have written to Father Joseph 154I Golden Gate Avenue , ing your official visit in Lincoln , I write this letter In view of these conditions , we mutually agreed that it Parish in Lincoln . In view of this fact we made a brief evening - result-made sacrifices on behalf or the congregationwhich drained It was your opinion that for the good of the Capuchin congregation exist today was pointed out to run as it had been sh . There is evidence that for the past several years he advantage of the C.puchin Fathers to relinquish the administration of the Sacred Heart Church in Lincoln . It was make of record the main points which came up for disc. the Sacred Heart congregation . We both agreed that the parish In view of these conditions , we mutually agreed that it would be thers have found it necessary to sacrifice a portion of nuclear salary in order to pay some of the operating expert that the Capuchin Fathers could not continue in that ition to the acute situation which prevails in the Sac chin Father's failed to balance the budget of the parish burdening the entire community . We agreed that on condition that In compliance with our mutual agreement that it would be well is advisable to withdraw the Capuchin Fathers from the Sacred Hear . he financial records of the parish and the Capuchin FA Parish . The critical state in which the finances of the erent occasions . In each one of my communications I c ced incomes of the members of the Sacred Heart parish re and again to Father Joseph . Indeed , you came to Lincc altogether too incomplete accounts also reveal that the Capuchi gations must be refinanced through some comprise set hope to retain charge of the Sacred Heart parish without further to the reduced incomes of the members of the Sacred Heart of incoln. In view of this fact , we made a brief examination your Provincial in Ireland could obtain permission from the Holy the knowledge that the Sacred Heart Parish was facing the economic depression , the Capuchin Fathers could not he parish of the Sacred Heart . The scants and contention that under the circumstances which now prev. s obvious , we added , that the present indebtedness is a ur Provincial in Ireland could obtain permission from a compliance with our mutual agreement that it would be It was your opinion that for the end of the Cauchin Order it chin Fathers could not continue in that too large for the parish of the Sacred Heart . The sea Lincoln . Nebraska . 5I4 South 18th Street Chancery Office . September 2Ist 1937 . copy