NEW JERSEY
The Record
SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013
BY DENISA R. SUPERVILLE AND JEFF GREEN
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD
NUTLEY — Tempers flared between parishioners and protesters Sunday at an Essex County church that allowed an embattled Catholic priest |to participate in youth ministry activities although he was banned from working with children.
The pastor of Holy Family Church in Nutley rebuffed victims’ advocates who stood outside the church, demanding that he resign over a heated controversy surrounding the Rev. Michael Fugee.
“I have no plans to resign,” Monsignor Paul Bochicchio said while greeting parishioners leaving the 10 a.m. Mass. “I have done nothing wrong.”
Bochicchio said last week that Fugee had given talks to the parish’s youth and had accompanied them on trips to Canada, an apparent violation of a 2007 agreement among Fugee, the Archdiocese of Newark and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office. Bochicchio has said that Fugee was supervised at all times, and that his involvement with Holy Family did not violate the agreement.
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