NEW JERSEY
The Daily Journal
Written by
Jim Walsh
Courier-Post
Before moving to South Jersey one year ago, Bishop Dennis Sullivan lived in a Manhattan mansion with a chair reserved exclusively for a visiting pope.
Sullivan, now leader of the Diocese of Camden, is again in a mansion — but this one has the church leader on a hot seat.
Critics have assailed Sullivan’s decision to spend $500,000 for a Woodbury estate, a 20-room manor known as Rugby Pines once used by the president of Rowan University.
They assert the money would be better spent helping the needy, and say the bishop should seek a more humble home.
Sullivan is not alone.
Controversies have flared recently over church leaders’ pricey homes in the Atlanta and Newark dioceses. And Pope Francis removed a German bishop from his post last month after the cleric spent the equivalent of $43 million for a new residence and related improvements.
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