The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has come a long way from the dark days when complaints about priests who sexually abused boys were ignored and the priests shuttled to new assignments where they remained in contact with children. Bridgeport was part of a plague of sexual predation that became an international church scandal. In 2001 and 2003, the Bridgeport Diocese reached multimillion dollar settlements of lawsuits in which there were more than 50 claims of sexual abuse by its priests. At the time of the 2003 settlement, a spokesman for the diocese said the settlement was "all about transparency, ... about healing, about doing the right thing, about closure.
.... A. Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut . In January 2009, the ...
Sacred Heart University student Jo-Marie Kasinak of Milford attended the 38th annual March for Life Jan. 24, in Washington, D.C. For Kasinak, one highlight was praying with the priests, nuns and parishioners from the Diocese of Bridgeport. - Karen A. Forsyth was named president elect for 2011-12 of the Hamden Lodge 2224 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Forsyth has been an active Elk member for 15 years and was Hamden lodge president for 2007-08. - Hamden native Herb Miller, a senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin business school, was chosen by students to receive the alumni association's Outstanding Professor award. Miller graduated from Hamden High in 1964 and the University of Hartford in 1968. He also received a certificate for $1,000.
FAIRFIELD -- Fairfield Prep graduate Joseph Redfield Palmisano, S.J., of Monroe, was ordained to the priesthood June 14 at the Chapel of St. Ignatius Loyola on the Fairfield University campus by the Most Rev. William E. Lori, bishop of Bridgeport. It was the first rite of ordination to take place in the chapel. About 400 people attended the ordination, including family, friends, Fairfield Prep teachers and administrators, priests from the Fairfield Jesuit community and the Diocese of Bridgeport.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A Roman Catholic diocese in Connecticut that has fought for years to prevent the release of documents generated by lawsuits against priests for alleged sexual abuse wants conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to take up the case. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Tuesday ruled the documents cannot remain sealed until the full court decides whether to review the case. On Friday, attorneys for Diocese of Bridgeport asked that Scalia, a Catholic, reconsider its request to continue a stay on the release of the papers.
Ruben Rodriguez of Fairfield has been elected the first lay chairman of the board of trustees of St. Vincent's Medical Center and St. Vincent's Health Services in Bridgeport. He has been a board member at St. Vincent's for three years, and prior to retiring in 2006, he was president, chief executive officer and chairman of Bacardi Limited in Bermuda. William Hoey, a licensed clinical social worker, has been appointed vice president of mission services at St. Vincent's Health Services in Bridgeport. He most recently was vice president at Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Bridgeport. Dr. Jody Gerard of Newtown has been appointed vice president and chairman for the emergency department at St. Vincent's Medical Center, having most recently been vice president for medical affairs at TeamH...
A Catholic priest from Palisades Park has resigned as the pastor of a church in Connecticut amid accusations that he used church money to finance wild parties, fancy dinners and homes in Florida and New York City. The Rev. Michael Jude Fay stepped down May 17 as the pastor of St. John Catholic Church in Darien, Conn., where he had served as pastor since 1991. An internal investigation by the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., revealed that Fay had used more than $200,000 in church money to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a condominium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that he owned jointly with another man.
The state supreme court rejected this argument, writing that "membership in a task force concerning a particular legal issue does not justify the disqualification of a judge simply because the judge's service happens to be coincident with his participation in a case dealing with the same issue." "In recent years, as public attention to the church's child sex abuse and cover up scandal has waned a bit, more Catholic officials are willing to spend tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars, donated by parishioners, to get or keep embarrassing records sealed," he said.\n The Marianists Province of the U.S. last April asked a federal judge in Denver to issue an order preventing coverage of an open court hearing in a lawsuit over paying for settlements made with high school students.
...The high court refused to hear the Diocese of Bridgeport's challenge to a Connecticut Supreme...
Ruben Rodriguez of Fairfield has been elected the first lay chairman of the board of trustees of St. Vincent's Medical Center and St. Vincent's Health Services in Bridgeport. He has been a board member at St. Vincent's for three years, and prior to retiring in 2006, he was president, chief executive officer and chairman of Bacardi Limited in Bermuda. William Hoey, a licensed clinical social worker, has been appointed vice president of mission services at St. Vincent's Health Services in Bridgeport. He most recently was vice president at Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Bridgeport.
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