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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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Narcotics officers in Bridgeport have made a gruesome discovery which highlights the link between crime and the occult. Traffickers in Mexico and other places are said to commonly perform grotesque rituals to obtain supernatural protection for their business but we don’t expect to see such things in these parts.
Members of the Tactical Narcotics Team expected [...]
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Governor Rell, as promised, has vetoed legislation that would eliminate the death penalty in Connecticut. And, as Channel 3 reports:
Its supporters in the Democrat-controlled General Assembly have said they do not have the necessary two-thirds majority of votes to override her veto. The bill, which would have replaced capital punishment with life in prison, passed [...]
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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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Former Connecticut governor John Rowland appears on Mike Huckabee’s show and talks about his fall “into grace.” If it is possible to watch Mr. Rowland objectively (which is certainly difficult for some) you will see he has some interesting things to say about lies, a moral compass and… he even uses the R word: [...]
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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Good news for Danburians – you live in Connecticut’s safest city:
Danbury tops the list of the safest cities in the state, according to a ranking of the safest — and most dangerous — cities in the nation.
The rankings of cities with populations greater than 75,000 were recently released as part of the “City Crime Ratings” [...]
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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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A reader writes with some concern asking what options pro-family forces have in Connecticut in the wake of the Kerrigan decision legalizing same-sex marriage:
Is there going to be an amendment or a vote that the public can make like in California to ban the same sex marriage here in Connecticut? How do we ban it [...]
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If you are a public official, the answer is clearly “no.” Attorney-General Blumenthal has issued an opinion which recognizes gay marriage as being on a par with other civil rights, pursuant to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Kerrigan case. Says Mr. Blumenthal:
Section 46b-22 does not impose a duty on persons authorized to perform [...]
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