SCHMIDT v. CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BILOXI

No. 2008-CA-00416-SCT.

18 So.3d 814 (2009)

Frank L. SCHMIDT, Sr., and Henry W. Kinney, et al. v. CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BILOXI, Thomas J. Rodi and Dennis Carver.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 17, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Virgil G. Gillespie, William J. Blass, Eric D. Wooten, Gulfport, attorneys for appellants.

Henry W. Kinney, pro se.

Julie Jarrell Gresham, Biloxi, Stephen J. Carmody, Jackson, Kevin J. Necaise, Diamondhead, attorneys for appellees.

Before WALLER, C.J., LAMAR and PIERCE, JJ.


WALLER, Chief Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. One hundred and fifty-seven former parishioners of the St. Paul Catholic Church in Pass Christian ("Plaintiffs") filed suit in the Chancery Court of Harrison County against the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi, Inc., Most Reverend Thomas J. Rodi, as Bishop and President of the Biloxi Diocese, and Reverend Dennis Carver, individually and as pastor of St. Paul Church (hereinafter collectively "Church Defendants"). Plaintiffs...

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