Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Another rogue bishop!

Our church speaks about justice for workers, but has no policies to protect its own church workers. Ruth Kolpack, a pastoral worker for 26 years, was fired by Bishop Morlino of Madison yesterday because she would not renounce her seminary degree's master's thesis on inclusive language!

Please write to the Papal Nuncio today! See address at right.

Support Ruth and the more than 30,000 other Catholic lay ministers in our country who can be fired at any time by a priest or bishop without due process!

We are pursuing options for Ruth but in the meantime, our canon lawyer has encouraged us to send hundreds of letters to the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's Representative in the U.S. He keeps files of the letters he receives and passes the information along to the Vatican. In the long term, this raises the issue of church worker justice in the eyes of the Vatican. Please see the information at right for his address.

If you live in Wisconsin, please consider joining CTA/Madison at local protest vigils this weekend to show your support for Ruth and the thousands of men and women like her who give their lives to our church.

With hope for the rights of church workers,

Call To Action Staff

P.S. Don't forget to write the Papal Nuncio or attend one of the local vigils! See info. at right.

4 comments:

thetimman said...

Catholic Bishops who uphold Catholic doctrine are labelled "rogue" by this purportedly Catholic blog.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery.

thetimman said...

So much for dialogue...

flooob said...

Dude. Liberation and feminist theology are not things that the Papal Nuncio is about to champion the cause of. I think you're thinking of the wrong Pope (and the wrong Catholic Church).

Anonymous said...

Some of these people who call themselves catholic really arent catholic LIBERATION AND FEM IN IST THEOLGY REALLY ISNT PART OF THE CHURCH..SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE SO LOCKED IN THE SIXITES..THEY WILL NEVER COME OUT THE CLOSET..
THE BEST THING FOR THEM TO DO
IS TAKE GAS AND PRAY FOR A HAPPY DEATH...