A Senior Contributor to The Stream, Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, Catholic Vote and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on The Stream are solely his own.
I have lived my entire life as a Catholic in the Archdiocese of Hartford. On June 29th that archdiocese closed dozens of parishes. The parish where I was baptized, another parish where I made my First Communion, a third parish where…