At age 16 Morrissey left her birthplace, The Beaches, a small outport on the west coast of Newfoundland. She lived in various places of Canada before returning to St. John's where she studied at Memorial University.
Morrissey has written two prize-winning novels—Kit's Law and the national best seller Downhill Chance— and one prize-winning screenplay.
Today, Morrissey, who identifies herself on her voice mail as the archdiocese's cabinet secretary for public relations and communications, is often the public face of the diocese at the center of the mushrooming crisis that has engulfed the global Catholic Church.
''DonnaMorrissey had the obligation as a PR person to provide the advice that would have kept this train from running away, and she did not,'' declared one former church official and member of Cardinal Bernard F. Law's cabinet who asked not to be identified.
When Morrissey was offered the job toward the end of 2000, she was delighted for a variety of reasons, not the least of which was, according to several sources who worked with her at Regan, a substantial increase in pay over the $85,000 she was earning at Regan.
DonnaMorrissey, foreground, spokeswoman for the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, is surrounded by members of the media as she responds to questions outside Cardinal Bernard Law's residence in Boston in April.
Morrissey was questioned yesterday in Boston by attorneys representing priest abuse victims seeking a settlement with the archdiocese.
Archdiocese spokeswoman DonnaMorrissey was questioned in a deposition related to the clergy abuse scandal yesterday and could not be reached for comment.
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