UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Mick Forgey | Jul. 15, 2014
A religious educator with decades of experience, hired to write Scripture commentaries for a liturgy training sourcebook, had her writing pulled from the book after the publisher learned that she had presented a workshop at a Call to Action conference.
Liturgy Training Publications, owned by the Chicago archdiocese, had hired Margaret Nutting Ralph to write short daily Scripture commentaries for its Sourcebook for Sundays, Seasons, and Weekdays 2015, a resource for lectors.
Ralph had previously written marginal notes and commentaries on Sunday Lectionary readings for the Advent, Lent and Easter seasons for Liturgy Training Publications’ 2011 and 2013 Workbook for Lectors, Gospel Readers, and Proclaimers of the Word.
But in January, Ralph was informed in a letter from the publishing house’s director, John Thomas, that her work would not be used.
“Our archdiocesan censor has requested that we withhold the Scripture Commentaries that you wrote,” the letter stated. “The request was made because of your recent presentation at Call to Action.”
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