Thompson helped arrange service for mother of priest and convicted child molester

Source: Wisconsin State Journal

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson played a key role in arranging an unusual memorial service for the mother of a Catholic priest and convicted child molester inside a Wisconsin prison, according to a letter that surfaced this week as part of a legal settlement.

In the September 8, 1997, letter to Thompson, Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, thanks the then-Republican governor for "granting an extraordinary permission" for the body of the priest's deceased mother to be brought into the prison for viewing.

The Illinois priest, Norbert Maday, was serving time for sexually assaulting two boys in central Wisconsin.

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The service for Maday's mother, Catherine, was held on Aug. 27, 1997, and involved bringing her sealed casket into Fox Lake Correctional Institution. Two funeral home workers, at least one Catholic priest, and at least six people on Maday's approved visitor list attended the 15-minute memorial, the Wisconsin State Journal reported shortly after the service.

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REPUBLICAN

to Christianity and the catholic church especially that I've never grasped.

It's very disturbing.


OH! Tommy Thompson sounds like a real tool!