The third dismissal

The judgment of invalidity of the 2nd dismissal is dated 19.6.2012.

Although Prof. Petruželka, the head of the Department of Oncology (General University Hospital in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University), and the then coordinator of the European Network of Health Care Chaplaincy, Dr. Anne Vandenhoek, contacted Prague Archbishop Duka, I received the 3rd dismissal on August 17, 2012. The termination was justified by my redundancy resulting from an alleged organizational measure. According to this organizational measure, only priests were to provide care for the sick.

It was a period when associations of hospital chaplains were being formed in the Czech Republic.
The Protestant Association was established in 2011. 
The Catholic Association of Hospital Chaplains was founded in Velehrad in autumn 2012. Yes, in that place and with those people for whom I had been preparing meetings and education for several years. The Czech Bishops' Conference issued the founding charter of the Catholic Association of Hospital Chaplains in October 2013.

The Catholic Association report for Dr. Anne Vandenhoeck from February 2014 even mentions my name.

At the same time, the Prague Archbishopric also invited the laity to attend a course that would enable them to lead religious services. 

And so, while in the Czech Republic, the interest of hospitals in chaplains was growing and their number was increasing, while associations of hospital chaplains were being founded, while a course for pastoral assistants was being opened, I was superfluous, persona non grata who had to be eliminated. While I had a degree in medicine and theology, others only needed to do a course to lead worship.

During the court hearing, the Prague Archbishopric did not prove my redundancy, primarily because the alleged organizational measure did not affect other laity but also because the archbishopric employed another woman in another hospital.
And so they lost for the third time.

This, of course, was already unbearable for the archbishopric. Instead of an apology, something that ordinary mortals cannot imagine came. The archbishopric managed to persuade the courts that I was a cleric. That is why the case did not belong to the civil courts' jurisdiction. Only the Czech Republic Constitutional Court stood up for me, which led to the fact that the judgment on the invalidity of the third dismissal from 2013 was confirmed in 2018.

From the first dismissal in 2009 to the confirmation of the invalidity of the third dismissal, nine years have passed, nine years of legal battles, nine years of stress, and my ruined life.

But anyone who would expect an apology now terribly would be mistaken again.