Seven years ago, after New Jersey’s top prosecutor vowed to investigate decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests across the state, hundreds of victims began calling a newly established hotline and ...

The new bishop of Camden said Monday that his diocese would no longer oppose a statewide investigation of sex abuse by clergy — a stunning reversal after the diocese had spent years arguing in sealed ...

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for ...

By Daniel Payne The Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, has decided to end its legal opposition to the state’s efforts to empanel ...

The Camden Diocese is trying to block Jersey's top prosecutor from producing a grand jury presentment on clergy abuse. Plus, the TGR Learning Lab opens at the historic Cobbs Creek Golf Course.

Camden's bishop, Joseph A. Williams, said in May that the diocese will no longer object to the state investigation. For years, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden has waged a court battle to ...

The church had argued private institutions were protected from grand jury investigation In a stunning reversal from the Catholic Diocese of Camden this week, the new Bishop Joseph A. Williams said ...

But the Diocese of Camden pushed back in court in 2021, arguing that state law doesn't permit having a grand jury investigate possible abuse by private church officials. That legal battle has ...

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese ... In a letter Monday to the state Supreme Court, an attorney for the diocese said Camden Bishop Joseph Williams wished to inform the seven justices ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed ...