Newest Bishop Robert Morlino Nuttiness

Bishop Robert Morlino must get his entitlement to impose bigotry from some sacred place indeed. And a new sign of the Cathlic Church ought to read "all are welcome, except women."

Doug Erickson has the story in the State Journal:

As a girl, Ruth Kolpack said she so loved her Catholic faith she played church with her friends during recess at a parochial school.

Often, she was a member of the congregation. Occasionally, she pretended to be an altar server, a role not available to girls at the time.

Now 64, Kolpack is still grappling with the role of women in the Catholic Church, although the circumstances are much more serious than a playground game.

On March 12, Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino fired Kolpack from her position as the full-time pastoral associate at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Beloit. The termination came after Kolpack said she refused the bishop’s request to renounce a 2003 college thesis in which she argued for more gender-inclusive language at Masses and harshly criticized the Catholic hierarchy’s doctrine of only ordaining males.

See also:

• Ruth Kolpack's thesis
• Video: Doug Erickson talks about the story with

Rightwing Catholic Bishop Hit in Open Letter

One wonders what the prince of peace and love would say were he to encounter the hate and hypocrisy inflicted in his name by such men as Bishop Robert Morlino, who in one sense supposedly leads 270,000 Catholics in the 11-county Madison, Wisconsin diocese.

Madison-area Catholics are speaking out today against Morlino in an open letter at the back of the Business section of Sunday's Wisconsin State Journal.

Peace, compassion, tolerance and love.

Such qualities seem to elude this priest of what the great humanistic writer Jimmy Breslin termed the "Church that Forgot Christ," after Breslin left the Catholic Church that abandoned many of the teachings of Christ and other great humanists in history.




















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