Oct. 9--The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport can -- and must -- do better.
An investigation by staff journalists in this Sunday's Connecticut Post more than abundantly detailed the appalling and shocking conditions at St. Augustine's Cemetery on Bridgeport's East Side that is maintained by the diocese.
The 157-year-old cemetery, with its last interment there in 1979, has fallen into deep neglect.
Its 5.8-acre grounds are strewn with bags of garbage, broken glass, cans, old mattresses and carpeting. Many of its monuments and headstones are defaced by graffiti or lie beneath the surface or, if above ground, on pathways over which foot and vehicular traffic ...