The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-22
CORRIGAN ONCE MORE
The Hoboken Priest In
volVed in a Scandal With
His Assistants.
CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY.
SatOlli Sides With Corrigan, While
Wigger Espouses the Cause
Of DR.. Fabris.

The Rev. P. Corrigan, Pastor of the
Church of Our Lady of Grace, Hoboken,
once more comes to the trout with a church
scandal, this time involving Mgr. Satolli,
Bishop Wigger, himself and his two assist
ants. Father Fabris, one of the assistants,
is the bone Of contention. Father Corrigan
tired of him, it appears, as an assistant, and
decided to get rid of him. Father Fabris de
clined to go. Father Corrigan then APP
pealed to Mgr. Satolli, who ordered Father
Fabris away. Father Fabris appealed to Bishop
Wigger, who told him to remain. Thus mat
tiers stand at present. 7
The Rev. DR.. Francisco Domenico is a
Dalmatian. 1t is said he is very learned
and was a trusted priest in Rome. Father
Corrigan eulogised him to the skies when he
first went to Hoboken. He then told a JER-
sEY CITY NEWS reporter that Father Fabris
would do missionary work in Hoboken
among the poor foreigners. He was
to have begun in September,
preaching to these poor people, but as far as
known never did this missionary work, at
least the effect expected was never made
manifest. In this connection it may be said
that Father Fabrls was sent to the Newark
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by Bishop Wlgger and assigned to Hoboken.
OFFENDED THE SOPRANO SUNDAY.
DIR. Fabris is an INTEL igent priest, speaks
several languages, n English pretty well.
He seems of an irritable disposition, how
ever, but some say that under the circum-
stances he could hardly be expected to be
otherwise. Last Sunday he displayed his
impotence at the high mass. The singing
had been prolonged, SO that previous to the
elevation Nine de Vancene, the soprano. a
niece of Father Corrigan, had not half COM
pleted her solo. Father Fabris was ready to
proceed with the mass. He waited some
three or four minutes, and then angrily
boy and directed him to sound
the bell. The boy did SO. There was con
~sternation in the choir loft. Mime. Vancene
stopped suddenly. Prof. O'Keefe seemed to
have fallen over the piano and there was an
suppressed excitement about the church that
was lamentable. Father Fabris then pro-
ceeded, but it was some minutes before the
choir could sing the responses. 1t is thought
by many that this is the cause of the row.
that Father Corrigan took offense at the
treatment of his niece and took Father
Fabris to task.
MORE SERIOUS CHARGES.
But there are more serious charges. The
story runs that Father Corrigan asked DR..
Fabris to work against Bishop Wigger and
Archbishop Corrigan. This he pleasantly
declined to dc at first, but after many re-
quests he repeated the d~eclination with some
heat. DR.. Fabris at first suggested that some
of Father Corrigan's statements be toned
down a bit, put after awhile this became
impossible. Lately, in the matter of Father
Murphy, who was elected from the house
hold of DIR. Sebastian Smith, in Paterson,
DIR. Fabris refused to take the part of the
person who somented the trouble, and that
made matters worse.
Matters went on this fashion until after
All Souls Day, November 2. The assistants
in all the parish churches are paid by salary,
but on this day the people make offerings for
masses said for the repose of the souls of
their dead friends and relatives, and in the
diocese OF Newark these offerings are divided