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Catholic bishops oppose abuse case bill

Bulletin Insert / Illicit Inserts

Bishops in Connecticut have you no shame?
Limit the statute of limitations on sex abuse --
OK will you from anti-abortion stance recuse?
You want a child sex victim to stop claim?

Your church institutions were placed at risk
By celibacy vowed priests who had the hots
For boys, some barely past the age of tots.
To far off places offenders you would whisk.

You fear the millions it would cost to clear
The docket of the court or to silence men
Who’ll never the forget the horny priest’s yen
And will carry life-long guilt, mistrust and fear.

Though your flock, blind followers, will be staying,
This music you must face for illicit organ playing.


April 11, 2010
Connecticut’s Roman Catholic bishops are urging parishes to fight legislation that would extend the statute of limitation in civil child sex abuse cases. The bishops asked pastors to include a bulletin insert this week that warns of potentially disastrous financial fallout. The insert says the bill could dredge up claims more than 70 years old and place all church institutions at risk, even parishes free of claims. The insert is signed by Hartford Archbishop Henry Mansell, Bridgeport Bishop William Lori, and Norwich Bishop Michael Cote. Current law gives victims until age 48 to sue. The new law would allow people above that age to join in lawsuits filed by younger people. State Representative Beth Bye, a cosponsor of the bill, said the bishops’ letter was inflammatory and showed a lack of focus on abuse victims. (AP)