Text transcribed from caption: C-46639 IDAHO ‘DISSIDENT’ CATHOLICS APPEAL COURT RULING COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho -- A group of dissident Catholics, who reject Pope Paul and the teachings of Vatican II and who now live an austere, devotional life in Northern Idaho, has appealed a court ruling in Ohio awarding $96,000 in judgements to two men who claimed the movement alienated their wives. The appeal was filed by lawyers for Our Lady of Fatima Crusade, which is based at the farm-centered City of Mary near Rathdrum, Idaho, about 20 miles northwest of Coeur d’Alene. It asked that the judgements against the Crusade and its leader, the non-accredited Bishop Francis Schuckardt (right photo), be set aside. Two brothers, Joseph and Henry Radecki of Toledo, Ohio, won the judgements after claiming in a suit in Lucas County (Ohio) court that the Crusade and Bishop Schuckardt alienated the affections of their wives by inducing them to leave their husbands and join the Idaho Crusade. The Crusade is often mistakenly linked with the Blue Army of Our Lady of Fatima, based in Washington, N.J. According to the local Coeur d’Alene newspaper, Bishop Schuckardt was once international secretary of the Blue Army, but broke away and founded the Fatima Crusade in 1967. A spokesman for the Blue Army said that Bishop Schuckardt’s claim of having been international secretary of the Blue Army is “false,” and that he worked for the Blue Army briefly as a developer of Blue Army “cells” around the country, but was eventually “fired.” He said that Bishop Schuckardt was a layman and not a priest, and had no idea how the Crusade leader received the title of bishop. Bishop Sylvester Treinen of Boise, whose diocese encompasses all of Idaho, has declared that because the Fatima Crusaders reject Pope Paul they can no longer be considered members of the Roman Catholic Church. At left, women members of the Crusade, dressed in long peasant-type costumes, stand and kneel outside the church in the City of Mary. Crusade members reportedly show special devotion to the Virgin Mary and follow literally the contents of the “Fatima message,” and strenuously object to the use of the vernacular in the Mass. They are strongly anti-Communist, reject public schools, discourage recreational activities, stress spiritual development, operate their own “Catholic” schools, and encourage members to become “sisters” and “brothers.” Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (RVJ-IDA-1C-75-DS)