The complaint details alleged sexual molestation and exploitation by ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick while he served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen and as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Newark.
With an announcement Wednesday by the Archdiocese of Newark that all daily and Sunday Masses will be suspended until further notice, public gatherings are now on hold at every Catholic church in New Jersey.
Catholic Church officials are reacting to calls by a New Jersey lawmaker for the state to impanel a grand jury to embark on a comprehensive investigation of potential sex-abuse by clergy.
Catholic Church officials in New Jersey have paid tens of millions of dollars to men and women who have accused priests and clergy of child sexual abuse in the last three decades.