BOSTON (MA)
Boston Globe
By Globe Staff, 5/8/2003
Donna M. Morrissey, who served as the public face of the Archdiocese of Boston throughout the clergy sexual abuse crisis, has left her job as spokeswoman for the church.
Morrissey, who was brought in to improve the church's public relations in January 2001, left the archdiocese on April 28, a spokesman for the archdiocese said yesterday. Her tenure was dominated by the worst public-relations crisis in the history of the church, as the archdiocese struggled to explain why it had failed to remove scores of abusive priests from ministry.
''Donna Morrissey has moved on and is no longer in the employ of the Archdiocese of Boston,'' said the spokesman, the Rev. Christopher J. Coyne. ''We are looking for a senior person to take over'' communications and public relations, he added.
