{"id":24408,"date":"2009-03-08T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/connecticut-congressmen-propos\/"},"modified":"2009-03-08T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T02:10:23","slug":"connecticut-congressmen-propos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/connecticut-congressmen-propos\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut congressmen propose bill to regulate Catholic parishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, March 5th, two Connecticut state&nbsp;congressmen introduced a bill that proposes to restructure Catholic parish life taking authority away from pastors, the bishop and the pope.<\/p>\n<p>The bill VIOLATES the FIRST AMENDMENT of the US Constitution!!!&nbsp;Read the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeportdiocese.com\/folder_bridgedocs\/AN_ACT_MODIFYING_CORPORATE_LAWS_RELATING_TO_CERTAIN_RELIGIOUS_CORPORATIONS[1].pdf\">Bill 1098\/2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a direct attack on the part of these congressmen&nbsp;on the Roman Catholic Church&nbsp;for the Church&#8217;s teaching the Gospel, especially regarding&nbsp;homosexuality and birth control.<\/p>\n<p>More information to be had on the website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgeportdiocese.com\/Fight_1098.shtml\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdioceseofhartford.org\/news\/abmansellletter.pdf\">a letter<\/a> from the archbishop of Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kofc.org\/un\/eb\/en\/news\/legislative\/detail\/548357.html\">Knights of Columbus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/ci_11866705?source=most_viewed\">Newstime.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, March 5th, two Connecticut state&nbsp;congressmen introduced a bill that proposes to restructure Catholic parish life taking authority away from pastors, the bishop and the pope. The bill VIOLATES the FIRST AMENDMENT of the US Constitution!!!&nbsp;Read the&nbsp;Bill 1098\/2009. This is a direct attack on the part of these congressmen&nbsp;on the Roman Catholic Church&nbsp;for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/connecticut-congressmen-propos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connecticut congressmen propose bill to regulate Catholic parishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[32105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}