CRS directory removes listing of executive involved in same-sex marriage
May 27, 2015
Just days after the director of the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) said that the agency was “working through” questions about an executive who is a partner in a same-sex marriage, that executive’s name has been taken off a list of CRS leaders.
In April, the Lepanto Institute disclosed that Rick Estridge, the vice-president for overseas finance at CRS, had entered into a same-sex marriage in Maryland in 2013. Last week Carolyn Woo, the newly installed director of the charity, acknowledged that CRS was “working through this,” saying that the proper policy regarding a homosexual executive was a “complex issue.”
The CRS web site, in its listing of executives, no longer includes Estridge’s name.
CRS is the overseas charitable agency sponsored by the US bishops’ conference.
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Further information:
- CRS Executive Leadership
- New head of Catholic Relief Services defends program against critics (CWN 5/18)
- Vice-president of US bishops' overseas charity is partner in same-sex marriage, group reports (CWN, 4/20)
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