May 10, 2017

Kurt Martens, professor, canon law, was quoted in a Hartford Courant story on the consolidation of parishes in the Archdiocese of Hartford.

 

... Martens noted that a bishop needs "a just cause" to make a decision such as merging parishes, and "cannot act arbitrarily." A just cause for merging parishes would include a shortage of priests, which the archdiocese has frequently cited. ...