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NJ Priest Arrested For Drunk Driving, Stealing From Walmart Stepping Down: Officials NJ Priest Arrested For Drunk Driving, Stealing From Walmart Stepping Down: Officials
NJ Priest Arrested For Drunk Driving, Stealing From Walmart Stepping Down: Officials A New Jersey priest arrested for shoplifting and drunk driving is stepping down from his pulpit, Daily Voice has learned. Dawid Wejnerowski, the now-former priest of the St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alpha, had a blood alcohol level more than twice the legal limit when Pohatcong police pulled him over on suspicion of shoplifting from Walmart on Monday, Feb. 19 around 10:15 p.m., Police Chief Scott Robb said. Officers approached the priest's vehicle, pointed out to them by a Walmart employee in the store parking lot, but Wejnerowski backed the car out of a parking spot and drove off from the…

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by Cecilia Levine & Sam Barron
Obituaries
NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash
NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash A 29-year-old man studying to become a priest was struck and killed in New York City by a drunken hit-and-run driver late Tuesday night, according to Catholic Church officials. Ngu Quoc Tran, who went by Peter, was walking on Manhattan’s East Side when he was struck by the driver, who was arrested after he car was involved in another collision, the Diocese of Metuchen said. Born and raised in the An Giang Province in the south of Vietnam, Tran moved to the U.S. in August 2017 and lived at the Saint John Vianney House of Discernment in Highland Park. Tran began pre-theology in Spring 2…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House
Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick Accused Of Leading Sex Ring At Jersey Shore Beach House The 90-year-old defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick stands accused of running a sex ring out of his Jersey Shore beach house in Sea Girt. One victim claims in a lawsuit that he was molested by McCarrick and three other priests during overnight stays at the then-Bishop's home in Monmouth County, the New York Post reports. Last year, Pope Francis defrocked McCarrick after a church investigation found he sexually abused minors and adult seminarians.  The suit was filed Tuesday night in New Jersey Superior Court in Middlesex County against the Diocese of Metuchen, the Archdi…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
New NJ Clergy Abuse Task Force Makes First Arrest New NJ Clergy Abuse Task Force Makes First Arrest
New NJ Clergy Abuse Task Force Makes First Arrest A massive investigation by New Jersey authorities into the sexual abuse of young boys by priests has produced its first arrest. Fr. Thomas P. Ganley, 63, of Phillipsburg remained held in Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in North Brunswick pending a detention hearing Friday on various sex assault counts. Ganley was a priest at St. Cecelia Church in the Iselin section of Woodbridge when he abused the youngster from 1990 through 1994, from when the boy was 14 until he was 17, authorities said. The charges are the first brought by the New Jersey Clergy Abuse Task Force, which Grewal c…

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by Jerry DeMarco