FIC Blog

Congratulations to the Latin Ministerial Alliance of Greater Hartford, which held its first gathering last weekend:
Seeking a higher profile and a greater public voice, more than 20 ministers representing the Hartford area’s Hispanic churches have formed an alliance to work on educational and social issues that affect their parishioners.
A unity service Friday evening at House [...]

Yesterday’s eighth annual Catholic Concerns Day was perhaps the most highly-charged, confrontational one yet. But despite the presence of the Courant’s religion reporter at the event, our local paper of record limited its coverage to one photo with a vague caption noting the Archbishop’s concern about “ominous threats” to the Church “in the form of [...]

The attempt to withhold millions of dollars from Catholic hospitals for refusing to provide chemical abortions began with an underhanded maneuver:
[Rep. Denise] Merrill [D-Mansfield] confirmed Tuesday that she never told [House Speaker James] Amann in advance about her plans to resurrect the issue in Section 33 in the back of the budget. The issue was [...]

The Courant quoted FIC three days in a row over the weekend. On Friday, it was on our response to the Massachusetts ruling:
In Connecticut, opponents of same-sex marriage applauded the ruling, which they viewed as a significant retreat from the court’s earlier decision.
“It shows a chastened court,” said Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of [...]

Democrats in the General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee last week launched a sneak attack on religious institutions by inserting a measure into the budget that would withhold millions of dollars from hospitals that refuse to provide chemical abortions. Reactions have rightly been fast and furious:
“This is war,” declared the state Senate’s top GOP leader, Sen. Louis [...]