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That controversial bill in Connecticut is — at least for now — dead: Following the biggest political firestorm of the 2009 legislative session, a public hearing scheduled for Wednesday on the financial and administrative management of the Catholic Church has been canceled. The bill is dead for the rest of the legislative session. As soon…

This story landed like a like grenade yesterday, and the alarm over it is only growing. If you haven’t heard about it by now, take a deep breath and read on: A proposed bill that would take power from Catholic priests and bishops and turn it over to parishioners has sparked outrage among church leaders,…

The priest who has been at the center of a firestorm in the Archdiocese of St. Louis has been officially stripped of his faculties, according to the Associated Press: A priest who defied his Roman Catholic bishop in 2005 to become pastor of a largely Polish-American parish at odds with the archdiocese has been stripped…

“If bigots in one state succeed…bigots in other states will try the same.” — Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput,strongly condemning a Connecticut billthat would force the Catholic Church there to turn over control to lay people.
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