by Juliana Manderico

Created on: March 16, 2009

Because of the irregularities of the handling of Catholic parish's finances, it is suitable for the state to remove the control of parish finances from the Catholic diocese. The parish complaint regarding the lavish and abusive spending, offensiveness and keeping the detail of expense statement from the members of the parish are the best evidences to reconsider. One of the examples was the removal of Rev. Walter H. Cuenin from his parish because of financial improprieties (Boston.com Local News).

The news of the conflict was issued in the Hartford Courant stating "church leaders are angry over a proposed bill, which has already died before its hearing today, that would have taken financial power from the Catholic bishops and turned it over to the parishioners. The measure would have created lay councils of seven to 13 people to oversee the business affairs of local parishes." Read more by opening the URL provided below.

http://blog.au.org/2009/03/11/defend-the-wall- conn-bishops-rally-for-churchstate-separation-sort-o f/

The argument regarding this matter is the oppositions of this issue by using the law of "separation of religion and state". There is a reason for this, but if there is improper and abuse act of this matter, the state has the power to intervene. As we know that abuse is a criminal act, therefore, government officials have the authority to subdue.

The arguments of the separation of religion and state had been an issue for over 50 years now and have the same concern as of the founder fathers. Read the statement below

"Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by ecclesiastical corporations.
The establishment of the chaplain ship in Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights as well as of Constitutional principles.
The danger of silent accumulations and encroachments by ecclesiastical bodies has not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S.
- James Madison (read the complete history by opening the website provided below).

http://www.rationalrevolution.net/articles/hi story_of_the_separation_of_chu.htm

The statement above is very true, if we follow what is happening, no one in the state put emphasize on this matter for a very long time. This case shall be treated the same as the other issue which is against the state and humanity.

In one of President George W. Bush's speech, he stated,

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