Michael Reading decided to sue after Cardinal Joseph Tobin refused to respond to letter. Michael Reading fled the priesthood 25 years ago because he was wrestling with personal and professional demons he couldn’t name. Only now does he understand what those struggles truly were. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Newark, used his power … Read more
In the late 1980s, several seminary students approached one of their professors imploring him for help, saying they didn’t want to take any more trips to Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s Jersey shore home, but feared reprisals if they complained to archdiocesan officials. The Rev. Ed Reading, a priest of the Paterson Diocese, was alarmed when … Read more
Bruce Novozinsky says he was a 16-year-old seminary student when his longtime parish priest, the Rev. Gerry Brown of St. Mary of the Lake in Lakewood abused him and attempted to rape him. “It cost me part of my youth, my trust in those who I was taught to trust, and decades of my life” said Novozinsky, … Read more