The first shoe immediately dropped when the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport released to the media those discovery documents from the clergy sex abuse lawsuits.  0160; The front page of the CONNECTICUT POST carries that news.  Full Disclosure:  In 2004, I briefly did some freelance consulting for the Diocese of Bridgeport. ...Tags: 0160; They were turned over last Tuesday.  0160; By Tuesday evening we knew that Edward Eagan, later a Cardinal, had observed that it was "marvelous" that more priests hadn't been involved

This could be the tipping point for both the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport in Connecticut as well as the entire institution of Roman Catholicism in America and around the world.  0160; The Diocese attempted to stop that through filing an appeal with the Connecticut Supreme Court, which it lost.  0160; This ruling from the US SC, reports  Dave Altimari in THE 0160; The United States Supreme Court  denied the request of the Diocese of Bridgeport, filed on a paid-fee basis by its law firm Mayer Brown, to keep the discovery documents from the settlement of clergy sex abuse cases sealed. 

In 2001, the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport has been fighting in court, including three motions to the U.S. 0160; Last week it lost its last appeal in the Connecticut Superior Court.  0160; Set on the Gold Coast of Connecticut, where the Diocese of Bridgeport is, it exposes the comic underbelly of all religion: Roman Catholic, Pagan, Buddhist, as well as the Gospel of Atheism.  Indirectly Like many industries, law has had a bad year.  0160; Those BigFoot white shoe law firms are laying off associates, deferring the start date of

Today, here in Connecticut, on the evening news it was announced that the state's Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has secret files about grim allegations of sex abuse of children.  Recently I have published my first novel which focuses on Catholicism on the Gold Coast of Connecticut.  Full Disclosure: In 2004, I did a few months of freelance communications consulting for Since Sunday, American Roman Catholicism has received considerable media attention in the New England area - which quickly went national and global.  0160;

0160; Big names like former Cardinal Edward Egan surface prominently in the 12,000+ pages of discovery documents associated with the clergy sex abuse lawsuits released to the media by the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport.  Full disclosure:  In 2004, I did some freelance work for the Diocese of Bridgeport. ...Tags: We remember Michael in "The Godfather" renouncing, on behalf of Connie's baby, all the devil's works and pomps.  0160; Now, the tables might be turning on the institution which created that smoke-and-mirrors type

0160; Currently, the myriad lawsuits, settled and pending, over alleged sex abuse by clergy in the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport do not prove any cover-up.  Full Disclosure:  In 2004, I did some freelance communications consulting for the Diocese of Bridgeport. It played out in Watergate:  It's not what was or is.  0160; It's the cover-up. 

Earlier this month, the Diocese was turned down by the Connecticut Superior Court on its motion to have dismissed the lawsuit by Bethany D'Erario.  John's Church, Darien, Connecticut.  Full Disclosure:  In 2004, I did freelance communications consulting for the Diocese of Bridgeport.  It's the second piece of bad legal news this month for the Diocese of Bridgeport.  0160;

Incidentally, after the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport releases to the media, under court order [here's the Diocese's statement on that], the 12,000 pages of discovery documents from the 2001 settlement of lawsuits related to that, the weary nation/world is bound to turn its eyes to the young man from RI who stood toe-to-toe with Holy Mother Church. quot;  Its dark ironic tone peeks at the underbelly of all religion, but especially the Catholic brand on the Gold Coast of CT, in fact right in the Diocese of Bridgeport [Full Disclosure: Back light years ago in

0160; I haven't fallen apart since I published an opinion-editorial in THE HARTFORD COURANT in 2004 on pet grief as still being something in the closet. 0160; That can happen as with legal novelist Scott Turow on the commuter train to his partner job in a midwest law firm or it can happen here in a bohemian quarter of New Haven, Connecticut where musicians, graphic artists, and professional clowns respect what I am trying to do.   In the June 8, 2009 edition of THE NEW YORKER, Louis Menand poses yet again that age-old question: Can creative writing be taught and should it be taught?