Greenwich lawyer, inventor and spiritual entrepreneur Tom Gallagher didn’t have much luck over the last two years in his attempts to get the legislative Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on his idea to give lay committees exclusive responsibility for Catholic parish finances.
Now-retired Rep. Dolly Powers, R-Greenwich, tried without success to have the measure presented for a hearing, as a favor to Gallagher and other reform-minded Catholics in Fairfield County. The bill proponents, including members of a group known as Voice of the Faithful, were upset by a couple of scandals in which priests defrauded their parishes.
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