Hi - Is anyone familiar with the procedure to follow in order to obtain personal background information of a priest assigned to the Diocese of Scranton during the late 19th century? I'm looking for information about an ancestor: Father Michael Stack (of which I know very little.) According to family oral history, Father Stack was the brother of my maternal great-greatgrandmother (Johanna Stack.) Father Stack was born in Ireland in 1843 and died in Scranton in 1889 (there are different versions of the exact circumstances and place of death in Scranton.) He's buried in the Priest's Plot of Cathedral Cemetary. He was educated at St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia and was the first pastor of Annunciation Church in Williamsport. In December 1871, Father Stack challenged Bishop O'Hara in Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas over the right of the bishop to transfer pastors (The Stack-O'Hara Controversy.) He was suspended from the priesthood by Bishop O'Hara, and as a suspended priest, he did not receive any income from a parish or the Diocese, so (according to The Catholic Light Historical Issue of 1916), Father Stack had been engaged in writing for newspapers and selling insurance. But (according to Envisioning Faith: The Pictorial History of the Diocese of Scranton) Father Stack, in the end, accepted the decision of the courts (in Bishop O'Hara's favor) and did penance in a monestary in Rome. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Nellie