MASSACHUSETTS
Herald News
Brian Fraga
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted Sep. 23, 2014
I’ve heard that five buses full of friends and supporters of Fall River’s new Catholic bishop, Edgar M. da Cunha, will travel Wednesday to Fall River from da Cunha’s former diocese in Newark, N.J. to be on-hand for his installation Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption.
The cathedral is expected to be packed for the 2 p.m. Mass, which will be televised on two national Catholic cable networks.
But not everyone around the cathedral is going to be celebrating for the new bishop.
Members of Road to Recovery, Inc., – a New Jersey-based nonprofit that advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse – will be distributing leaflets and demonstrating for what they say was da Cunah’s inaction regarding allegations of sexual abuse against a former priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, who is now reportedly in the Philippines.
According to a press release distributed Tuesday night, Road to Recovery “will demand that Pope Francis rescind the appointment of Bishop Edgar da Cunha as Bishop of Fall River, MA and fire him from ministry as a bishop and priest.”
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