WOODLAND PARK (NJ)
The Record / NorthJersy.com
August 31, 2018
By Mike Kelly
In these days when we are learning about all manner of shocking secrets within the Catholic Church, here is one from Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin.
When Tobin arrived in Newark nearly two years ago to lead the city’s sprawling Catholic archdiocese — one of America’s largest with roughly 1.3 million parishioners — no one bothered to tell him that church lawyers had secretly arranged to pay $180,000 to settle two claims of sexual abuse against one of his predecessors, Theodore McCarrick.
Tobin said he learned of the settlements just before they were revealed in media reports in June.
“It’s embarrassing,” Tobin told me in a phone interview the other day. “I was really shocked.”
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