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Article: LETTERS.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- May 19, 2000
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Osterhaus
* How sad and frustrating to watch the continuing destruction of successful Catholic campus ministry programs! NCR reported April 28 on the "replacement" of the long-time and deeply respected campus minister at Western Washington University, Shirley Osterhaus, so that an ordained person could be assigned to her position.
We are supposed to believe that the diocese acted honorably and even generously with the woman, and that a baffled chancery will most certainly be open to listening to students and faculty voice their resentment, although there is no reason for it. We are not, of course, to assume that a version of Ex Corde Ecclesiae, the ...