Signs of the Times Mark Catholic Day at Capitol

Wednesday March 11, 2009

Yikes, there were some bad feelings flying around the Capitol today.
And even though it’s an esoteric issue of state laws on religious corporations going back to 1866, Roman Catholics won the PR war, winding up parishioners from throughout the state who, at points outside the Capitol in a noon rally, were a couple burning stakes away from a witch roast.
Even the rendition of “America the Beautiful” had a hard edge on it. Signs included “Leave Our Church Alone” and Connecticut Usurps the Sole Right of the Pope and Bishops to Govern the Catholic Church” and “This is Not China.”
The Blogser, for one, is looking forward eagerly to Attorney General Dick Blumenthal’s eventual dissection of exisiting state law on church incorporation.