FIC Blog

No wonder so many of you have forwarded Jeff Jacoby’s Mar. 15 Boston Globe column to me: his wisdom regarding Massachusetts is directly on-point with everything we are fighting in Connecticut: On March 10, Catholic Charities of Boston had announced that it was being forced to shut down its highly regarded adoption services, since it […]

The Connecticut House of Prayer will be facilitating a number of prayer events around the state in preparation for the Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost, June 4th. For a listing of dates and venues, see the Pray Connecticut blog. The Catholic Church will be holding Youth 2000: New England, a Lenten Retreat for High […]

S.B. 46–a bill that would stop unsolicited sexually oriented messages targeted at children’s e-mail, cellphones, pagers and faxes–was reported out of the Legislative Commissioner’s Office today. But if the Judiciary Committee does not vote on it by their “JF” date, Mar. 27th, the bill will likely die. You can help pass the bill by clicking […]

It was a battlefield carefully chosen by Connecticut’s pro-abortion establishment. But they did not count on a profile in courage, Victim Advocate James Papillo, offering public testimony exposing their effort to force Catholic hospitals to provide the “Plan B” pill for the pro-abortion attack on religious freedom that it is. Pro-abortion activists are now discovering […]

FIC members should note a few items that appeared over the weekend. In another sign of the secularist assault on faith in New England, Catholic Charities in Boston has voted to discontinue its adoption services rather than be forced by law to place children with homosexual couples: Calling it an issue of “religious liberty,” Governor […]

Reactions in defense of James Papillo have been coming in fast and furious over the last 24 hours or so. FIC sent an action alert yesterday inviting our members to e-mail their thanks to Dr. Papillo. Hundreds have already done so and you can too by clicking here. Annie Banno, Connecticut state leader of Silent […]

S.B. 46–a bill that would create a child protection registry to help parents and schools stop unsolicited sexually oriented messages targeted at children’s e-mail, cellphones, pagers and faxes–was referred favorably to the Judiciary Committee yesterday. The phone calls and e-mails of FIC members helped secure the support of Public Health, the committee where the bill […]

Proponents of the bill to force Catholic hospitals to provide a pill that can induce abortions have claimed that it is about helping the victims of crimes, not a pro-abortion attack on religious freedom. Their pretenses have now been blown away by Lt. Gov. Sullivan’s clumsy, over-the-top call for Victim Advocate James Papillo to resign: […]

Pro-family Rep. Minnie Gonzalez (D-Hartford) defeated an effort yesterday by pro same-sex unions Mayor Eddie Perez to purge her from the legislature’s Democratic caucus. Today’s Courant reports that Rep. Gonzalez’s supporters bested Mayor Perez’s supporters in the primary elections for Democratic Town Committee, which almost guarantees her re-election in November: A brazen caravan of honking […]

Amid all the other battles raging for the future of the family in Connecticut, new information continues to emerge demonstrating why same-sex “marriage”/civil unions will be bad for marriage in Connecticut. Stanley Kurtz’s careful rebutting of his critics helps to lay out the connections: So Scandinavia leads the world in parental cohabitation and the legal […]