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Internet Radio Host Hal Turner Faces Connecticut Charges
The Hartford CourantInternet radio host Hal Turner — accused of inciting Catholics to "take up arms" and singling out two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official on a website — was taken into custody in New Jersey late Wednesday after state Capitol...Tags: Trials, Michael Lawlor, Racism, Justice System, New Jersey
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Internet Radio Host Turner Unlikely To Appear In Court Until Next Week
The Hartford CourantInternet radio host Hal Turner, accused of inciting violence against two state lawmakers and a state ethics official on a website, likely won't appear in Connecticut to answer the charge until next week. As of Thursday afternoon, Turner remained in a New...Tags: Michael Lawlor, Roman Catholicism, Ethics, Death, Christianity
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Priest accused of sex abuse apparently commits suicide
Sun StaffA priest who resigned from his Connecticut parish last month amid allegations that he sexually abused young boys apparently committed suicide yesterday at a Catholic psychiatric hospital in Silver Spring that treats disorders including pedophilia,...Tags: South Norwalk, Hospitals and Clinics, Sexual Assault, Roman Catholicism, Social Issues
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A Defensive, Dismissive Tone
Courant Staff WritersHours into a closed-door interrogation, a plaintiff's attorney presses Bishop Edward M. Egan on his view of claim after claim of sexual abuse made against the same priest from the Diocese of Bridgeport. Egan knows that the allegations follow a pattern....Tags: New York, Lawyers, New Mexico, Hepatitis, Sexual Assault
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Egan Protected Abusive Priests
The Hartford CourantSecret court documents reveal that New York Cardinal Edward M. Egan, while serving as bishop of the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese, allowed several priests facing multiple accusations of sexual abuse to continue working for years - including one who...Tags: Teen-agers, New York, Danbury, Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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Alleged victims angry at those who aided priest
The Hartford CourantBRIDGEPORT, R.I. - The betrayal began when their priest sexually abused them, they said, and continued when the church covered up his crimes. Yesterday, accusers of the Rev. Laurence F.X. Brett said they felt newly betrayed at the news that, while police...Tags: California, Lawyers, Sexual Assault, Trials, Stamford
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The Curtis File
Before Bishop Edward M. Egan took over the Bridgeport diocese in 1988, Bishop Walter Curtis ran it for 27 years. Excerpts from Curtis' depositions, which were sealed by the court: On transferring priests: Q: What was the purpose, Bishop, of the...Tags: Edward Egan
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Abusive Priest Found In Caribbean Hideaway
And ELIZABETH HAMILTON Courant Staff WritersThe Rev. Laurence F.X. Brett vanished abruptly almost a decade ago, leaving clothes still hanging in his closet and a trail of accusers stretching across four states and back 30 years. Now, a Hartford Courant investigation has found the onetime...Tags: South Norwalk, California, Periodicals, Assault, Lawyers
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A Complete Loss Of Faith In Egan
Courant Staff WriterIn many ways, Carole Surran was the ideal parishioner - a devout Catholic who attended Mass daily and allowed nothing to interfere with her faith or devotion to the church. It was that devotion, in part, that led the Wilton mother to seek a meeting in...Tags: Danbury, New York, Lawyers, Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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Timeline: The Carr File
May 10, 1980: Charles Carr ordained, assigned to Our Lady of Fatima Parish in Wilton. Spring 1982: Mother of 11-year-old boy says Carr molested her son in Our Lady of Fatima parking lot (she details the incident in a letter seven years later). June 21,...Tags: Danbury, Sexual Assault, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Sex
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A Predator Blessed With Charm
Courant Staff WritersBy the time Laurence Francis Xavier Brett came calling at the Diocese of Bridgeport in 1955, the bright, eager young man's bid to become a priest had already been rejected by another bishop. The reason: the Archdiocese of Hartford determined that the...Tags: Ash Wednesday, New York, FBI, Sexual Misconduct, Rituals
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Cardinal Is `Deeply Sorry'
Courant Staff WriterAfter insisting for weeks that he properly handled sex abuse charges against priests while he was bishop of the Bridgeport Diocese, Cardinal Edward Egan, now the archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York, apologized Saturday for any mistakes that "may...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, New York, Lawyers, Sexual Assault, Sexual Misconduct
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