NEW JERSEY
The Record
SATURDAY MAY 25, 2013
BY JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
The day after Newark Archbishop John J. Myers announced the resignation of his top deputy in response to a growing scandal centered on a former Wyckoff assistant pastor, Catholic officials provided more detail about a series of initiatives designed to prevent future instances of sexual abuse by clergy members.
Critics, meanwhile, said they were not swayed by the archbishop’s move and maintained their calls for his resignation.
In a letter that will be read Sunday in Catholic parishes throughout the four-county archdiocese, Myers wrote that he accepted the resignation of Vicar General John E. Doran, who signed an agreement in 2007 with Bergen County prosecutors that barred the Rev. Michael Fugee from working with children for as long as he remained a priest. Fugee, who had initially been found guilty of groping a teenage boy, recently was charged with violating the agreement.
Politicians and victims’ advocates said the resignation and Myers’ other proposals did not go far enough. A spokesman for state Sen. Barbara Buono, the leading Democratic contender for governor, said she had not reviewed Myers’ statement but she stood by her demand for his resignation.
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