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Article: Lawmakers urge probe into NIH chaplain complaints.(IN THE CAPITAL)(National Institutes of Health)(Brief article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Several members of Congress are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate an allegedly anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic chaplain at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) clinical research hospital.
The Rev. O. Ray Fitzgerald, a Methodist minister and former head of the Spiritual Ministry Department, was demoted after a Catholic chaplain that he fired was judged to be the victim of "discriminatory and retaliatory animus" in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission decision.
But while the Catholic chaplain was reinstated, Fitzgerald still holds a chaplaincy position at the NIH's Bethesda, Md., hospital. In light of a lawsuit and ...