NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Richard Khavkine/The Star-Ledger
on January 02, 2013
NEWARK — Despite the recent ouster of three parish priests and the reassignment of another, the financially troubled St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Elizabeth has a future, an official for the Archdiocese of Newark said today.
James Goodness, a spokesman for Archbishop John J. Myers, said a new administrator will assess both the church’s finances and the parish’s operations before a permanent pastor is installed, possibly in the next few months.
“The archdiocese truly believes in the future of the parish,” Goodness said.
Goodness spoke after about 20 parishioners from St. Mary’s gathered across the street from the archdiocese’ offices to express concern about St. Mary’s, Union County’s oldest church, following the ouster of the church’s pastor, Monsignor Robert Harrington, and of the Revs. Jack Martin and Pat Donohue.
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