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Maltese chaplain gets £10,000 after being sacked by UK’s National Health Service

April 03, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Patrick Pullicino, a former neuroscience professor, was fired from his position as a psychiatric hospital chaplain after he responded to a patient’s question about Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage.

As part of the legal settlement, a National Health Service trust retracted an earlier statement that its “policy on equality and diversity ... takes precedence over religious beliefs.”

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