NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
on February 05, 2013
How is it possible that Catholic bishops, scorned for their bungling of the church’s sex abuse scandal, remain so consistently tone-deaf when it comes to their kid-gloves treatment of accused priests?
What else explains Newark Archbishop John J. Myers’ appointment of the Rev. Michael Fugee — a priest forbidden to be alone with children after admitting he groped a boy in his parish — to a prestigious position in the archdiocese?
A spokesman says the archdiocese “has every confidence” in Fugee, that he won’t be left alone with kids. That’s an extraordinary vote of confidence for a man who confessed to touching a young boy — escaping only on a technicality.
Sadly, this isn’t surprising. It’s Myers’ pattern of misplaced faith in men who abused the church’s youngest parishioners.
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