NEW JERSEY
Irish Central
Tom Deignan
Daniel O’Toole had enough.
O’Toole, and other parishioners at St. Joseph’s Church in Oradell, New Jersey, part of the Archdiocese of Newark, have spent the past week up in arms. They have been handing out leaflets before and after Mass.
And on Wednesday, July 31, St. Joseph’s pastor, Reverend Thomas Iwanowski, will step down, following what Iwanowski has described as a series of disagreements over his leadership style.
However, O’Toole told the Bergen Record that there is just one reason it became necessary for Iwanowski to step down.
“The reason he was removed, as best as I can understand it, was because he was harboring a priest with a known history for sexual predation,” O’Toole said.
And so it goes.
Even prior to this latest allegation, their had been calls for the resignation of Newark Archbishop John J. Myers. Earlier this month, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan also came under fire, accused of shielding church finances even as known abusers remained in the priesthood for years.
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