St. Joseph’s College Betrays Pro-Lifers, Again The Food and Drug Administration has announced that it will allow the Morning After Pill–the potentially abortifacient Plan B drug–to be sold over-the-counter without a prescription to 15 year old girls. Family Institute of Connecticut is quoted in The Hartford Courant today against the decision: “It’s put the [...]
Enfield man gets probation for death threats sent to same-sex marriage opponent By Alex Wood Journal Inquirer | Posted: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 1:36 pm Calling Daniel Sarno “clearly a disturbed individual who needs a great deal of help,” a federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the Enfield man to five years’ probation for mailing death [...]
The failure of Massachusetts’ Question 2, which would have legalized assisted suicide in that state, has not dampened the enthusiasm of its advocates. In a blog post appearing on the websites of both Compassion and Choices and the Death With Dignity National Center, Peg Sandeen, executive director of the Death With Dignity National Center, boasts [...]
In 2009, then-State Senator Andrew McDonald led the most blatantly unconstitutional attack on religious liberty in recent memory when he tried to pass a bill that would have stripped Connecticut’s Catholic bishops and priests of authority over their own parishes–a move widely believed to be payback for the Church’s opposition to same-sex “marriage.” Now a [...]
Much is being made this week, and rightly so, of the remarkable rise of young Art Linares to the State Senate. If, as CT GOP chair Jerry Labriola has asserted, Latino voters and the GOP are closely aligned on social issues, it may be that Art Linares does indeed represent an “emerging Latino political wave.” [...]
On October 18th our friends at the Connecticut Catholic Public Affairs Conference emailed this statement from Hartford Archbishop Henry Mansell in response to Vice-President Biden’s erroneous statements about the HHS Mandate: In this month’s issue of The Catholic Transcript I wrote about how in these days in our country, we are coming to realize how [...]
This Friday, October 5th, there will be a bioethics lecture by Alan Sears, the president of Alliance Defending Freedom, which is the legal arm of Focus on the Family (and the Family Institute of Connecticut). The talk at Holy Apostles College in Cromwell will be on religious liberty, same sex “marriage”, and the link between [...]
My husband Peter, executive director of FIC, was subjected to death threats for being a pro-family leader. You can read The Courant’s front page coverage here and The Courant’s subsequent editorial here. It’s the editorial that I want to say something about. I appreciate The Hartford Courant defending Peter. I’m sure the editorialist thinks they [...]
Pro-abortion Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro is not shy in lecturing others–even the Pope–in what she believes to be her superior knowledge of Catholic doctrine. Last week, she got a taste of her own medicine and she did not like it one bit. From our friend, Connecticut pro-life activist Kathy Upson: Hi friends, I just went to [...]
The Fortnight for Freedom is over but the Family Institute of Connecticut’s 2012 Religious Liberty Tour is just getting started. The Waterbury Republican-American today front-paged my letter to the editor as the “Opinion of the Day:” The July 3 article “Catholics denounce law,” on the Supreme Court upholding Obamacare, quotes Maria Zoe, director of communications [...]
