Norwalk, CT anti-gay Calvin Reformed Chuch grapples w/pastor's arrest on 2nd degree assault charges

[Ian David]

By John Nickerson
Staff Writer
Published June 24 2007

NORWALK - Sunday services will continue as usual today at a Lexington Avenue church whose pastor was arrested a week ago after allegedly slashing her husband with a knife.

Calvin Reformed Church Chief Elder Jack Zakhar said a substitute minister, the Rev. Albert Kovacks, will perform baptisms and hold services today.

The church's regular pastor, the Rev. Maria Fodor, was charged last Sunday night with second-degree assault. She is being held at the York Correctional Center in Niantic on $40,000 bond.

Fodor was taken into custody after her husband told police that she used a butcher knife inside the couple's 19 Fifth St. home to slash his left forearm to the bone.

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But in an interview after Monday's arraignment, Fodor's husband said the two have been having marital problems.

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The Synod and BWF are in considerable agreement on important issues addressed by the
churches. There are numerous other congregations and members who stand with the Synod on
refusal to recognize same-sex unions, or to ordain and install ministers and lay officers who are
not celibate singles or faithful in marriage. It is because the UCC persistently funds activities for
undesirable programs, in support of such as these, that OCWM support is sent by only one or
two congregations on their own initiative. The rest want no part of it, meeting real needs elsewhere.

The most important reason Calvin Synod insists upon its continuation is theological. The
UCC has abandoned its confessional heritage in all but name, while the Synod stands firmly on
its Reformation heritage. During the years of Counter-Reformation, Muslim rule and massacre,
Habsburg persecution, Nazi terror and Communist oppression, the Hungarian Reformed Church
throughout Europe drew upon its confessional heritage as a bastion of strength, a source of
solace, unity and God's grace. While other walls collapsed, the Church stood strong - and
survived the years of chaos. Calvin Synod is unwilling to give up this powerful faith for the
whims and fads of the day that have tarnished the United Church of Christ.

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