A religious association that falsely purported to be a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery has been ordered to pay more than $71,000 in punitive damages to a couple who made substantial payments to the association on the basis of the misrepresentation. An appellate court in Connecticut has affirmed a trial court decision that also ordered the association to pay more than $207,000 in compensatory damages. ( Wagner v. Our Lady of Mount Caritas , O.S.B., App. Ct., CT, No. AC 36373, 6/15/15. ) The Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich originally issued a decree of establishment of the community in 1979 for an experimental period of two years, after which, if it had obtained six or...