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Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens has ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must release thousands of pages of documents relating to allegations of sexual abuse by priests.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ended nearly a decade of appeals by the diocese in its efforts to block public access to more than 12,000 [...]
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In today’s Courant, Dave Altimari has a good background piece explaining the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport’s lawsuit against the State of Connecticut.
In March, more than 4,000 Catholics descended on the Capitol to protest Bill 1098, which proposed having lay councils of seven to 13 people oversee the finances of local parishes, relegating Catholic pastors and [...]
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I actually couldn’t help laughing when I read about this – and I’m a pastor! In the fight to defend traditional values this story pretty much tells you how we got to where we are today.
After unknown persons, probably upset about California banning homosexual marriage, spray-painted swastikas on a San Francisco Catholic Church, the pastor [...]
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A few things you might have missed while suffusing your bloodstream with sugar over the past couple of weeks:
¶ A Muslim prisoner sues the State in Federal Court for halal food.
¶ A good idea to be “prayed up” before going to Bristol Hospital?
¶ A racketeering suit claims that the Catholic Diocese of [...]
The Bush Adminstration is still in power for a few more weeks, to the chagrin of Attorney-General Blumenthal. Federal regulations are being proposed that could supersede the plan under which Connecticut hospitals give contraception to rape victims. From the Courant:
The rule, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, reinforces protections for health [...]
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The Church’s failure to compete in the spheres of vocabulary and language has brought our society to the place where it is about to get hit by a train. It’s time for Christians to ask for, even insist upon, several things. The Church needs to: (1) reclaim the true biblical concept of tolerance; (2) reclaim [...]
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A very interesting article in the Yale Herald explored the response of Christians to the recent decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, establishing a right to gay marriage in our State. Writer Dennis Howe says Christians have sat silent but his article is also noteworthy for the revealing [...]
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