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Friday, March 16, 2012

"Woman's Firing from Catholic Parish to be Topic of Documentary" by Annysa Johnson in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.


"A Beloit woman fired from a Catholic parish in 2009 for advocating views contrary to the church - charges she has denied - received a $10,000 grant on Thursday to fund a documentary based in part on her experiences."This is very exciting," said Ruth Kolpack, 66, who lost her job after 26 years at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church - the last 10 as pastoral associate - and now works in hospice care.Kolpack is working with an independent Chicago filmmaker on the project. The grant, from the Massachusetts-based Catholic reform group Voice of the Faithful, supports women who were fired from church positions because of injustice or discrimination...She was dismissed after a meeting with Morlino in which she refused to recant her thesis - written for her master's degree in divinity from Milwaukee's St. Francis de Sales Seminary - that challenged the church's noninclusive language in the Catholic Mass and its ban on women's ordination..."



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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM

    "advocating views contrary to the church - charges she has denied"

    "she refused to recant her thesis ... that challenged the church's noninclusive language in the Catholic Mass and its ban on women's ordination..."

    I see a contradiction.

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  2. VeritwasMarch 17, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    "she refused to recant her thesis ... that challenged the church's noninclusive language in the Catholic Mass..."

    Is that the same as exclusion's non-church language in the Catholic Mass?

    I see a contradiction.

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