Cemetery Won’t Allow Mention of ‘Rapist’ Priests at Grave

DETROIT (MI)
CBS WWJ 950

October 21, 2017

Wheaton, Ill. – A Kalamazoo man is in a dispute with a Roman Catholic diocese over his efforts to install a marker at his mother’s gravesite at a Chicago-area cemetery that proclaims her support for victims of “rapist” priests.

Jack Ruhl says the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet will not allow a marker at his mother Marguerite Ridgeway’s gravesite at a cemetery the diocese owns because it includes “explicit language,” The Chicago Tribune reported.

Ruhl wants to install a marker that reads: “She supported priest rapist victims.”

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