NEW JERSEY
National Catholic Reporter

by Tom Gallagher | Apr. 28, 2013

It’s generally not a positive development when an editorial board of a major newspaper takes the position that an archbishop should resign. Well that’s what happened today on this fourth Sunday of Easter in an editorial by The Star-Ledger, the largest newspaper in New Jersey.

The basis for the call for resignation is found in a related story in The Star-Ledger today with the headline: “Newark archbishop allows priest who admitted groping boy to continue working with children.”

Writer Mark Mueller reports:

“Six years ago, to avoid retrial on charges that he groped a teenage boy, the Rev. Michael Fugee entered a rehabilitation program, underwent counseling for sex offenders and signed a binding agreement that would dictate the remainder of his life as a Roman Catholic priest.

Fugee would not work in any position involving children,…