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by bcadmin | Sep 17, 2021 | Associated Press, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Metuchen, News, second | 0 |
Three sex abuse lawsuits filed against a New Jersey diocese and announced Thursday include claims that defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a young man in the 1980s. The lawsuit accuses McCarrick of sexual battery against the man, who was in his late teens and early 20s when McCarrick was Bishop […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, News, Seminarians | 0 |
A seminarian from the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, was killed in a hit-and-run accident in New York City, the diocese reported.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2021 | Bishop James Checchio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, News, Prison, prison justice, prison ministry, prison reform, Prisoners, Prisons | 0 |
The women housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, the only women’s prison in the state of New Jersey, seem to have the cards stacked against them.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 15, 2020 | Assisted suicide, bioethics, Bishop James Checchio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death and dying, Diocese of Metuchen, euthanasia, New Jersey, News, Physician-assisted suicide | 0 |
More than a year after the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act took effect in New Jersey, Catholics in the Metuchen Diocese continue to oppose the law, which allows terminally ill state residents to end their lives.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, Federal court, News, Shooting | 0 |
Federal Judge Esther Salas said the July 19 death of her only child, Daniel, killed at their family home by a lawyer, could not be in vain and in an Aug. 3 video called for the protection of “my brothers and sisters on the bench.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2020 | Bishop James F. Checchio, Black Catholics, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, News, Racial justice, Racism | 0 |
When sin entered the world, the mirror image of God was shattered, said Metuchen Bishop James F. Checchio at a June 19 prayer service for racial harmony, peace, justice and healing of the nation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 5, 2020 | Archdiocese of Newark, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, Funerals, Military chaplains, New Jersey, News, Obituary, US Archdiocese for the Military Services, Vietnam War | 0 |
The late Bishop Charles J. McDonnell, retired auxiliary bishop of Newark, who died Feb. 13 at age 91, is being remembered as a humble man who answered the call to serve God and country.
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