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  • Defending Church teaching on homosexuality, bishop says former parish secretary died a martyr

    06/06/2013 6:36:01 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 11 replies
    Catholic World News ^ | June 6, 2013 | CWN
    In a debate on acceptance of same-sex marriage, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, remarked on the media bias in coverage of issues involving homosexuality. Speaking to an audience in Arizona, Bishop Paprocki said that a woman who worked at a parish where he had served in Illinois was killed because of her defense of Church teachings on homosexuality. Mary Stachowicz, a part-time parish secretary, was beaten, stabbed, and strangled by a man who resented her efforts to persuade him to avoid homosexual acts. “Mary’s murder was widely ignored by the media, despite the fact that she died as a...