Jesuits oust lay helper
London Tablet has this, via Natl Cath Reporter:
A US Jesuit conference official has been forced out of his job after writing an article in a Jesuit national newsletter that advocated open church dialogue with homosexuals. The news comes a week after Thomas Reese SJ resigned as editor of the influential Jesuit magazine America after years of pressure from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over the journal’s content and editorial line (The Tablet, 14 May).
Erik Meder was summoned to meetings with his immediate supervisor, Fr Jim Stormes SJ, and the executive secretary of the US Jesuit conference, Fr Tom Gaunt SJ, as soon as his article “Strangers No Longer: Who is the Other Among Us?” appeared in the April/May 2005 issue of National Jesuit News. Following the meetings, Mr Meder resigned as the outreach coordinator for the Office of Social and International Ministries at the Jesuit Conference, a position he had held for about 10 months.
See The Tablet for the rest.
posted by Jim Bowman @ 5/20/2005 11:51:00 AM
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