BERGEN (NJ)
North Jersey Record
December 19, 2018
By Deena Yellin
Four Jesuit priests who have served in New Jersey institutions were named by the religious order Monday on a roster of leaders who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors.
The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus — which encompasses eight states plus southern New Jersey — released a list of 29 priests who have been accused of abusing minors since 1950 while serving in schools, churches and colleges.
It was the third Jesuit province to release such a list.
“With all that is going on in the church today, we want to be transparent with something that has caused so much pain,” spokesman Mike Gabriel of the Maryland Province said in an interview Tuesday.
Most of the incidents occurred many years ago, and the majority of the people on the list are deceased, Gabriel said, adding that the living Jesuits who were accused are not serving in active ministry and must live in supervised housing.
This publication follows the summer release of the explosive Pennsylvania grand jury report that detailed decades of child sexual abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests.
Jesuits are a Roman Catholic order of priests comprising about 16,000 men internationally who take three vows: poverty, chastity and obedience. They are not part of a diocese.
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