Nun’s supporter out in Cincinnati

CINCINNATI (AP) — A volunteer religious teacher has been dismissed here after writing a letter to the editor backing a Roman Catholic nun ordered to stop teaching for supporting women priests.

Dr. Carol Egner says she has been told she can longer teach her Old Testament class to sixth-graders at Our Lady of Lourdes parish.

The archbishop of the Cincinnati Archdiocese recently banned a nun, Sister of Charity Louise Akers, from teaching at parishes and institutions after 40 years because she supports the ordination of women as priests. Akers says she refused to renounce her support of women priests as a matter of conscience.

Egner’s pastor says his decision is not part of a crackdown on dissent. Rev. David Sunberg says parish teachers must follow church teachings.