CONNECTICUT
Darien Times
By Susan Shultz on February 17, 2014
The new head of the Diocese of Bridgeport, which includes Darien and other Fairfield County towns, continues to make strides in open communication as he strives to ‘build bridges’ within the diocese.
Bishop Frank Caggiano was originally set to meet with the Bridgeport chapter of the Voice of the Faithful at its public meeting Thursday night, marking the first time the head of the diocese has attended a public meeting with the organization since it was formed in 2002. The meeting has been postponed due to the upcoming storm.
“The Bishop shares VOTF’s commitment to zero tolerance for children abuse as well as a healing outreach to those who were abused and affected in any way by the crisis,” Diocese Communications Director Brian Wallace told The Darien Times.
The Voice of the Faithful began in Massachusetts as parishioners’ response to allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergymen. Reports of sexual abuse hit a crisis level nationally in 2002, according to Connecticut Magazine, with reports of misconduct involving hundreds of Roman Catholic priests and thousands of young victims. There were 23 lawsuits involving sexual abuse in the Diocese of Bridgeport alone.
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