WHEATON (IL)
Associated Press, as it appeared in The Daily Mail
December 31, 2017
Jack Ruhl of Michigan wanted to install a gravestone on his mother Marguerite Ridgeway’s grave in Assumption Cemetery in Wheaton, Illinois
He wanted her epitaph to read: ‘She supported priest rapist victims;’ the Roman Catholic Diocese did not agree to the use of the word ‘rapist’
A compromise was reached for the gravestone which was installed December 22
It now reads: ‘She supported priest sexual abuse victims’
Ridgeway had been a devout Catholic before she became disillusioned with the church over its handling of its sex abuse scandal
A man who wanted to install a gravestone at a suburban Chicago cemetery that proclaimed his late mother’s support for victims of ‘rapist’ priests has reached a resolution with a Roman Catholic diocese.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet refused to allow the proposed marker for Marguerite Ridgeway because it included what the diocese called ‘explicit language’.
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