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Justin Bieber's Montclair Pastor Admits Infidelity, Fired Over 'Moral Failures' Justin Bieber's Montclair Pastor Admits Infidelity, Fired Over 'Moral Failures'
Justin Bieber's Montclair Pastor Admits Infidelity, Fired Over 'Moral Failures' Justin Bieber's former spiritual adviser and pastor Carl Lentz, who held weekly services as Montclair's Welmont Theater, was fired from the Hillsong Church, the megachurch's leaders said Wednesday. "This action has been taken following ongoing discussions in relation to leadership issues and breaches of trust, plus a recent revelation of moral failures," Hillsong said in a statement. Lentz, 41, took to Instagram Thursday to address his termination. "I was unfaithful in my marriage, the most important relationship in my life and held accountable for that. This failure is on me, and me alon…

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Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him
Former Central Jersey Altar Boy Says Defrocked Catholic Cardinal Molested Him A former altar boy from Monmouth County has gone public with accusations of sex abuse as a child at the hands of defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Geoffrey Downs, now 53, said in a lawsuit that McCarrick invited him to stay at a Catholic diocese-owned Jersey Shore beach house when he was a teenager. In this interview with NJ.com, Downs said he never told his parents and continued serving as an altar boy until high school, when he was preparing for Mass with McCarrick. He claims that the cleric fondled him. “I was kind of frozen,” Downs said in the newspaper interview.  Last …

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by Jon Craig