NEW JERSEY
Washington Post
NJ archbishop wary of entering any new pact with prosecutors to oversee restricted priests
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, June 25
NEWARK, N.J. — The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Newark is unlikely to enter into any new agreements with civil authorities that require church leaders to supervise priests on restricted duty, the archbishop said.
Rather than oversee a priest who had a case in the legal system, the archdiocese would tell him to “go back for a second trial and clear your name,” Archbishop John J. Myers told the National Catholic Register in an interview released Tuesday.
“The state has more resources,” he added.
Myers has been under fire for how the archdiocese handled the case of the Rev. Michael Fugee, a priest who violated an agreement between the church and the Bergen County prosecutor’s office.
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