The Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport must not be allowed to hide behind the First Amendment (written in September 2009)
(This is a piece that I wrote in September 2009, for another site. It discusses clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, specifically focusing on one Connecticut diocese and the abuse and cover-up that went on there. It’s quite long, so I’ll put the majority of it behind a cut.) Accusations, revelations, lawsuits, legal battles, [...]
The Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has finally exhausted all of its legal options (crosspost from Examiner column)
(Cross-posted from here. Thank you so much for reading! :) ) The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has exhausted all of its legal options in its seven-year fight to prevent the release of over 12,600 legal and judicial documents that include details of the sexual abuse lawsuits filed against six of the diocese’s [...]
Personal religious objections are not relevant to the legislative process (crosspost from Examiner column)
(This is cross-posted from my Examiner column (I’m the national Church & State Examiner.) You can see the original article here. I’ll continue cross-posting some of them and will also eventually have links to all of them under the “Writing” tab at the top of the blog. Thanks so much for reading!) (AP Photo/Pool) [...]
