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May 27, 2014
T
he Valley Catholic
in the diocese
Linda Batton to retire as Director of Social Ministries;
sees Church as ‘prophetic voice’
Linda Batton
By Roberta Ward
Linda Batton, DSJ Director of Social
Ministries, will retire at the end of
June. She says she was drawn to this
work by the words of Jesus in Matthew
25 and Luke 4 in which He says the
spirit of the Lord has anointed Him to
”bring good news to the poor, liberty
to captives, new sight to the blind, and
to set the downtrodden free.”
Batton said, “There are so many
among us who lack simple necessities
of life--a livable wage, to be cared for
in old age or when facing illness or
disability, who have been stripped of
their dignit 䰁