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.  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 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

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 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; They had been sealed as part of the $40 million settlement the Diocese made in more than 20 lawsuits regarding alleged sex abuse.   0160; 

Today's decision in Connecticut Superior Court by Judge Barry Stevens could mean a major public relations hit to the Roman Catholic Church in America and perhaps the end of Edward Cardinal Egan's career.  Judge Stevens ruled that the CT Diocese of Bridgeport must give the media access to the more than 12,000 pages of discovery documents collected in conjunction with the 23 clergy sex abuse lawsuits.  0160; 0160; They were settled in 2001. 

Yesterday, just at the Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury ordered, the discovery documents from the clergy sex abuse lawsuits in the Diocese of Bridgeport were unsealed.   Rather than a resolution of anything, these documents could be causing a tipping point.  0160; Those who were targeting retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan as mishandling and/or covering up that abuse of children feel they now have their smoking gun.  0160; This will be Egan's agony in the garden.

In 2001, the Connecticut Diocese of Bridgeport has been fighting in court, including three motions to the U.S. Supreme Court, to keep the 12,000 pages of discovery documents related to clergy sex abuse sealed.  0160; Last week it lost its last appeal in the Connecticut Superior Court.  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. 

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.  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 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;

0160; Today, the AP reports that, as a result of a three-year investigation, a 720-page document has been released.  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.  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 It played out in Watergate:  It's not what was or is.  0160; It's the cover-up. 

This concrete documentation that going to college isn't required either for intellectual development or a career might finally burst the higher-education bubble.  0160; This week parents moved their offspring into the Yale dorms here in New Haven, Connecticut.  Whoever thought it was an educational experience to throw thousands of adolescents together might look like a damn fool today.  0160; The web is making that rite of passage of going to college unnecessary. 

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.  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 as part of its mystique.