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  • no defense intended (Wisconsin Catholic parish worker fired for feminist views)

    03/19/2009 11:42:58 AM PDT · by NYer · 27 replies · 1,236+ views
    Off The Record ^ | March 18, 2009 | Diogenes
    OK, so why did Madison's Bishop Robert Morlino pick a PR fight he will certainly lose, and which he must have known at the outset he would certainly lose? Well folks, you won't find out from the NCR article.Headlined, "Wisconsin parish worker fired for feminist views: Allowed no opportunity for defense nor to face accusers," Mike Sweitzer-Beckman's piece tells the story of Ruth Kolpack, long-time pastoral associate at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Beloit, who was just minding her own business when Morlino called her in and fired her. Kolpack said that when she met with her bishop...