NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Erin O’Neill/The Star-Ledger
on April 13, 2014
As Barbara Grieco walked toward Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark today for Palm Sunday mass, she stopped to add her name to a petition calling on Archbishop John J. Myers to sell the large home in Hunterdon County where he plans to retire.
“Our Archbishop should really follow the Pope’s example by leading a simple life,” Grieco, a Montclair resident, said. “The money that’s going to this mansion, there are a lot of programs that could use the money.”
Faithful America, a national Christian group based in Washington, D.C., collected online signatures from more than 22,000 people who are critical of Myers for building a 3,000-square-foot addition on a 4,500-square-foot home in Franklin Township.
About a dozen parishioners and clergy sex abuse victims today had hoped to deliver the signatures directly to Myers after noon mass at the Ridge Street church.
Myers, who presided over the mass, did not meet with the group.
Rather, they delivered the signatures to Myers’ spokesman, Jim Goodness.
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