New development director brings passion to fund raising

Maryangela Layman Roman reports in the January 12, 2006 Catholic Herald on Debra Lethlean (a member of our parish) appointed last month by Archbishop Dolan as director of development for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. She has also been director of the archdiocesan Catholic Stewardship Appeal for the past seven years.

She attributes the success of the appeal to generous donors, support from pastors and Archbishop Dolan who she said "has done a wonderful job of restoring people's trust and of helping put the pedophilia crisis in perspective and helping people be proud to be Catholic."

Lethlean said, in reality, in 2002, following the onset of the pedophilia crisis and the retirement of Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, the stewardship appeal lost a significant number of donors.

Seems to imply Archbishop Dolan has declined to tackle putting the retirement of Archbishop Weakland in perspective.