‘I can’t say I knew him incredibly well’: parishioners reflect on priest’s sex abuse allegations

JERSEY CITY (NJ)
Jersey Journal

September 2, 108

By Corey W. McDonald

He lived in the church and celebrated Mass. Members at the Our Lady of Czestochowa Church knew of him, but many had never spoken to the Rev. Gerard Sudol, who last week stepped away from the parish after new allegations of decades-old sexual abuse surfaced.

Church members were informed of the allegations and that he would no longer be a part of the parish during last week’s Mass.

“But for the most part he didn’t really have all that much to do here,” said a parishioner who requested anonymity. “I can’t say I knew him incredibly well.”

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