The first shoe immediately dropped when the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport released to the media those discovery documents from the clergy sex abuse lawsuits.  quot;As the Bridgeport diocese tries to move beyond the priest sex abuse scandal, the release of 12,600 pages of documents has revealed the roles key diocesan leaders played in the cover-up.  The article goes on to document 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

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.  0160; This ruling from the US SC, reports  Dave Altimari in THE HARTFORD COURANT, "also appears to signal that he court will not take up the diocese's appeal of a Connecticut State Supreme ruling that the documents should indeed be public."  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; Today, the AP reports that, as a result of a three-year investigation, a 720-page document has been released.  0160; However, those dots may be connected by the media when the more than 12,000 pages of discovery documents are released, by a ruling of CT Waterbury Superior Court, to newspapers such as THE NEW YORK TIMES and THE HARTFORD COURANT.  0160; In the HARTFORD COURANT, the AP stated , "The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport It played out in Watergate:  It's not what was or is.  0160; It's the cover-up. 

Supreme Court, to keep the 12,000 pages of discovery documents related to clergy sex abuse sealed.  0160; The documents will become accessible to the media on or before December 1, 2009.  0160; Newspaper sales will get a nice bump up from covering what is in the discovery documents.  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 those promised jobs, cutting salaries, and making partners kick in up to 15% of their pay. 

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.  Supreme Court to keep those documents sealed.  Full disclosure:  In 2004, I did some 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 language

That brief had been submitted seemingly as a legal tactic by the Diocese to keep sealed more than 12,000 pages of discovery documents from 23 clergy sex-abuse lawsuits.  The allegations of such sustained sex abuse in one parish can reinforce what might be disclosed when the discovery documents are available to the media.  Full Disclosure: In 2004, I did a few months of freelance communications Since Sunday, American Roman Catholicism has received considerable media attention in the New England area - which quickly went national and global.  0160;

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg ruled no on the Diocese's request to keep documents about the clergy sex abuse cases sealed until that court makes the decision whether to hear the case this fall.  0160; The sealing of those documents had been part of a settlement by the Diocese in 2001 of 23 sex-abuse lawsuits filed against seven priests in that Diocese of Bridgeport.  It's the second piece of bad legal news this month for the Diocese of Bridgeport.  0160;

It was with great joy that last month, I uninstalled Office 2004.  The software, PowerPoint 2004 included, were getting on my nerves and there was nothing that suite could do to repair the broken relationship we had.  PowerPoint 2004 had quantity all wrapped up.  PowerPoint’s It wore out its welcome. Since then, I signed up to teach a slide design class through the county’s adult & community education program. 

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

Remember how way back in 2004 [light years in Internet time], Edelman Public Relations billed itself as the early adopter of digital strategies and tactics for public relations and marketing communications?  What Nolan documents is that the seasoned help at Edelman don't know digital probably any better than the purchasers of their services.  It's a bad day in Edelmanville today.  0160; Gawker's Hamilton Nolan pulled its digital covers.