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  Diocese's Sex Abuse Reforms Fail, Critics Say

By Jeff Diamant
Sunday Star-Ledger
December 5, 2010

http://www.nj.com/starledger/pdf/sunday.pdf

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Eight years ago, Newark Archbishop John J. Myers stood among the nation's bishops at a landmark gathering in Dallas and helped craft a policy intended to cleanse the priesthood of

pedophiles and restore trust among shaken American Catholics.

In ratifying the Dallas Charter, Myers and his colleagues promised a new era of reform and transparency.

Allegations of sexual abuse against priests would no longer be hidden from parishioners or police, and any priest believed to have molested a from ministry. In the years since, Myers and his aides say the archdiocese has taken aggressive measures to identify abusive priests

 
 

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