No Fiscal Accountability For Your Local Greenwich ParishGreenwich Attorney Tom Gallagher Hands Hot Potato To Fellow Greenwich Resident Richard " I Fear The Power Of The Catholic Church" Blumenthal
Proposal To Regulate Catholic Church Pulled
By DANIELA ALTIMARI The Hartford Courant
A controversial bill that would change the way the Catholic church governs itself has been pulled and a public hearing planned Wednesday on the issue postponed until the measure's constitutionality can be determined.
Despite the postponement, the Catholic Church is going forward with plans to rally at the Capitol. Hundreds of people, many of whom where angry about what they view as the state's inappropriate and perhaps unconstitutional incursion into church affair, were expected at the hearing.
"We are pleased that the hearing was postponed, we are concerned that the bill is very much alive," said Joseph McAleer, spokesman for the diocese of Bridgeport. "The troops are mobilized...we're as committed as ever."At a press conference this morning at the legislative office building,
Tom Gallagher of Greenwich, who has long advocated that lay people be given greater responsibilities within the church, said he has asked Rep. Michael Lawlor and Sen. Andrew McDonald, co-chairmen of the legislature's judiciary committee, to put off the hearing until Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has reviewed the matter. ...
....The proposed bill, which would take power from Catholic priests and bishops and turn it over to parishioners, sparked an angry reaction from church leaders, who questioned lawmakers motives. The bill would create lay councils of seven to 13 people to oversee the finances of local parishes, relegating Catholic pastors and bishops to an advisory role.....
COMMENT:
Greenwich Catholics Want To Know Who Died And Appointed Tom Gallagher The New Governor.
Greenwich residents are shocked that Tom Gallagher complains to Ex-Greenwich Representative Dolly Powers, and the state proposes a bill.
Then citizen Tom Gallagher tells the state senator to pull the bill?
Greenwich Residents want to know "Who is this guy, and how do I get my representatives to respond to me as obediently as he does?"
What Greenwich residents don't realize that Tom Gallagher is the fall guy for getting state senators away from the raw and ravaging fury of Bishops and Priests endanger of loosing their personal slush fund.
Well Just Who Is This Demonized Anti-Catholic Tom Gallagher Guy?
The Grenwich Time And The Conneticut Post
Are Affraid To Tell You That .....
Tom Gallagher is a Greenwich resident whose Catholic activism extends to membership in the Knights of Columbus, Order of Malta and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, and three years as pro-bono administrator of the Mother Theresa Center in New York, said he has long believed the diocesan parishes should operate differently than the current model adopted in the late 1960s.
Tom Gallagher Is A Real Bad Guy
He MUST BE STOPPED !!!!!!
I Don't Blame Parishioners Who Only Show Up For High Holidays Slandering Tom Gallagher, A Well Intentioned Man Of Good Works.
The real question is "why is the Catholic church's leadership so afraid of independent audit of its finances by elected parishoners?"
What's wrong with openness and visibility?
Is something being covered up?
It is not just Darien.
There is one church in Waterbury whose parishoners are still waiting for real info from a Bishop Mansell commissioned investigation of possible financial fraud.
Complete answers are still pending two years later.
Maybe, the church is right.
Lay people should have no say in how the money is spent.
No wonder membership in the Catholic church is at a 100 year low.
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The Darien case concerned the Rev. Michael Jude Fay, who was convicted of stealing up to $1.4 million in parishioner donations to lead a life of luxury with another man. Fay spent money from Darien's St. John Church on limousines, stays at top hotels, jewelry, Italian clothing and a Florida condominium shared with the other man, auditors hired by the diocese found. About half the money he spent was kept in a secret bank account. Fay is serving a three-year prison term.
Fay shopped at Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom, drove a Jaguar, attended a sports club, bought jewelry from Cartier, spent $130,000 for limo rides for himself and his mother, and stayed at hotels such as the Ritz Carlton, Hotel De Paris and the Four Seasons, according to an investigative report released last year by the Bridgeport Diocese. He spent tens of thousands of dollars on home furnishings and meals and more than $20,000 to mark the 25th anniversary of his ordination.
In Greenwich, the Rev. Michael Moynihan resigned in January 2007 from St. Michael the Archangel Church after a preliminary audit uncovered $500,000 in spending the church couldn't account for amid what Lori said at the least represented "badly tangled" financial records.
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