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	Let US Now Sue - Home Page for Diocese of Bridgeport Contains 2 Items on Litigation Law and More August 28, 2009 http://lawandmore.typepad.com/law_and_more/2009/08/let-us-now-sue-home-page-for-diocese-of-bridgeport-contains-2-items-on-litigation.html Our litigious times have seeped right into the holiest of the holies. Instead of gathering the flock to join in prayer, the Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut seems to be attempting to have them be on what the Church deems to be the right side of its lawsuits. On the home page of its website, the Diocese has a box at the top. In that box, two of the four items - or 50% - concern lawsuits. One is pending for possible review by the U.S. Supreme Court. It relates to the sealing of documents which was part of the Diocese's settlement in the clergy sex abuse cases. Four newspapers want them unsealed. The other lawsuit represents collateral damage from a $1.3 million embezzlement at St. John's Parish in Darien, CT by a gay priest. It is a whistleblower suit filed by the parish bookkeeper Bethany E'rario. The Diocese rebuts her claims. We Baby Boomer Recovering Catholics remember the days when we resented deeply the begathons from the pulpit. Now, practicing Catholics should be railing about the legalthons from the website.
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