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Religion, vaccine laws may clash

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Religion, vaccine laws may clash

BY LINDY WASHBURN

Last summer, New Jersey quietly made it easier for parents to get a religious exemption from the immunization requirements for children entering school or day care. Now a state legislator who's also a doctor says that was a bad idea.

Assemblyman Herb Conaway Jr., D-Burlington, has called on the state health commissioner to withdraw the rule — or he says the Legislature will.

"The problem is, now you don't have an immunization program that will work," Conaway said. "Either it's important to protect the public health and alleviate human suffering or it's not."

A health department spokeswoman says Conaway's measure "is currently under review by the department."

The health department's new rule says that authorities can't question parents who declare their objection to a vaccine to be religious, as long as their exemption request uses the word "religious" or "religion."

But Conaway says that's not consistent with state law, which says parents must explain how a vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs. Without that stricter standard, he says, parents will use the exemption for other reasons.

The dispute reflects a growing, if scientifically debatable, concern about vaccine safety among parents. Some want to decide for themselves what shots, if any, their babies and young children should receive.

New Jersey has the highest incidence of autism in the nation, and some parents fear that vaccines may contribute to its development. They don't trust assurances that vaccines are safe.

The number of children in New Jersey getting exemptions from vaccine requirements has been growing for years, even without the official rule change. It more than doubled in the five years ending in 2009, going from 1,644 in the 2005-06 school year to 3,865 children — or 0.8 percent of the student population. The biggest spike came in 2008-09, when the state added a flu shot to its list of required vaccines for preschoolers.

Children in schools and day care in Bergen County have a higher proportion of religious exemptions than the state as a whole — 1.1 percent, or 550 children in 2009-10, according to reports collected by the state health department. In Passaic County, the rate was lower, 175 pupils, or 0.5 percent.

Public health experts warn that more unimmunized children will mean once-devastating diseases will spread again — not only among those who choose to skip the vaccines, but among those who can't be vaccinated, for whom the vaccine was ineffective, or for those who are more susceptible, such as people with compromised immune systems.

"People think of vaccines as seatbelts that protect us individually," said Dr. Drew Harris, chairman of the New Jersey Public Health Institute. "But they're more like stop signs and traffic lights that protect everyone else. … People need to look at the facts and recognize that the risks of not vaccinating are much greater than any theoretical risk of vaccinating."


Parents in doubt

The state is trying to protect the public health, in a climate in which some parents openly question the scientific foundation of public-health policy.

"They're picking and choosing the epidemiological studies," to prove there's no causal link between children's vaccines and autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders, said Deirdre Imus. The wife of radio personality Don Imus and author of several books on green living, she founded an environmental center for children's cancers at Hackensack University Medical Center.

"Most parents are not anti-vaccine," she said. "I'm not. The center's not. We're calling for safe vaccines. … No parent wants their children to get any of these diseases. But we don't want the trade-off to be that now they might have neurodevelopmental problems."

Pediatricians on the front lines say they spend a lot of time assuaging parental concerns.

"We've seen enough of what happens when children are not immunized," said Dr. Jeffrey Bienstock of PediatriCare Associates in Fair Lawn and chairman of pediatrics at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The practice refuses care to families who won't vaccinate their children, he said.

This debate comes at a time when some of the most serious contagious diseases, including whooping cough, mumps and Haemophilus influenzae B, are making a comeback.

Over the past year, a whooping cough epidemic in California sickened thousands of people and caused the deaths of 10 babies; two Pennsylvania children died in an outbreak of Haemophilus influenzae B; and a mumps outbreak that began in a New York summer camp spread among tri-state members of the Orthodox Jewish community, including a child in Teaneck and several children in Monmouth County.

The percentage of New Jersey children vaccinated is well below the national average for measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis B and others, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state ranked 42nd in a survey by the CDC of vaccination rates in 2009, and 45th in 2008.

"We know we dropped from being in the top 10 to being in the bottom 10," says Dr. Margaret Fisher, a member of the infectious-diseases section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and chairwoman of the pediatrics department at Monmouth Medical Center. "We don't know why. We know the exemptions have gone up dramatically, but that still doesn't account for a huge percent of children who are not vaccinated."

In an intriguing reversal, poor children whose shots are provided through public insurance plans nationwide are now more likely than children with private health insurance to be vaccinated.


No note required

New Jersey permits vaccine exemptions for medical and religious reasons. Parents aren't required to be members of a particular religion, such as Christian Science, to be eligible for a religious exemption, and they don't need a note from a religious official.

The state's 1974 vaccine law allows a religious exemption when parents sign a written statement that the immunization "interferes with the free exercise of the pupil's religious rights."

In 2002, when a requirement for a hepatitis B vaccine was added, lawmakers said the written request had to explain how receiving the vaccine conflicted with "the bona fide religious tenets or practices" of the student or parents, and added that "a general philosophical or moral objection to the vaccination" wasn't enough for a religious exemption.

But just in 2008, the health department sent legal guidance to school officials: They could not question a parent's religious beliefs or commitment, as long as the request contained the words "religion" or "religious." The clarification was codified as a rule during the Christie administration, becoming official last July.

Public health advocates say the new rule gives parents an easy out and will lead to fewer children being immunized.

Conaway believes parents should have to explain their situation. "You don't have to come in with a letter from the pope. But you would have to make it clear that based on your understanding of your religion — that [vaccination] interfered with religious practice," he said.

Parental-choice advocates say the state cannot be permitted to determine which religions qualify or which parents are genuine members of such religions. "It's a slippery slope, who is qualified to make that judgment as to what that person's relationship is with their god," said Maureen Drummond, co-founder and co-director of the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice.

For parents who don't want their child to receive a vaccine, "religious exemption is the only viable exemption in the state at this point," she added.

Testimony ran unanimously in favor of reversing the new rule at a January Assembly committee hearing. Using an obscure provision of state law, the Regulatory Oversight and Gaming Committee passed a "concurrent resolution" to reverse the rule. It must be approved by the full Assembly and state Senate — but not the governor — to take effect.

Advocates of parental choice say they'll be ready to speak against that measure if it progresses.

Advocates of vaccine choice say New Jersey should join 20 states that have laws allowing broad philosophical exemptions to vaccines. But the Legislature has failed to act on such a bill, which has been sponsored by Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk, R-Westwood, and 19 other Assembly members.

E-mail: washburn@northjersey.com




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Man Accused Of Raping 12-Year-Old

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Man Accused Of Raping 12-Year-Old

LOWER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, Pa. --
King Williams
An Arizona man is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania on charges of raping a child and other offenses.

Lower Paxton Township police said King Williams, 40, of Tucson, had sex with a 12-year-old girl numerous times at her home while he was staying as a guest between August and December of last year.

Police say Williams is a relative of the victim's mother's boyfriend.

During the investigation, authorities learned that King is a Megan's Law absconder from California who is wanted there for a parole violation.

Williams is charged with rape of a child, indecent assault, corruption of minors and unlawful contact with a minor.

Anyone with information is urged to contact the Lower Paxton Township Police Department at (717) 657-5656, the anonymous Tip-Line at (717) 724-8317 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 262-3080.
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Teen Claims Man Raped Her Three Charged With Intimidating Victim

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Three Charged With Intimidating Victim

Teen Claims Man Raped Her

LANCASTER, Pa. -- New charges were issued Monday in connection with the alleged rape of a Lancaster teen.

More people are now accused of intimidating the victim on a social networking site after she talked to investigators.

On Monday, police charged 20-year-old Iian Pierce of Landisville, on charges of victim intimidation and criminal conspiracy charges in the case.

Two other juveniles also face similar charges.

Police said the victim has received threats and intimidating messages regarding her testimony through a social networking site.

Dominick Guerrisi, 18, of Lancaster, was charged Feb. 3 with rape after police say he got a 14-year-old girl drunk and then had sex with her.

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'Alien' Burglar Smashes Way Through Wall To Get In Pizza Shop

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'Alien' Burglar Smashes Way Through Wall To Get In Pizza Shop

Cumberland County Pizza Shop Burglarized

SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- An odd looking thief, who was caught on camera, broke in to a Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, pizza shop early Monday morning.



IMAGES: Frame-By-Frame Look At 'Alien' Burglar Surveillance Tape

The burglar, who broke into the store by smashing through a concrete wall with a sledgehammer, appeared to be dressed as an alien.

"He knew where everything was at. The motion detector -- he crawled under that. So he knew what he was doing," said shop Brett Haulman, co-owenr of Al's Pizza and Subs along the Carlisle Pike.

The burglar quickly stole two cash register drawers. He unlocked the front door and walked out. That's what ultimately activated the alarm and alerted police, who missed the burglar by a matter of minutes.
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The polluted Land (Spiritual Israel)


The polluted Land (Spiritual Israel)

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Ellen G White says:
Please read the third chapter [of Jeremiah]. This chapter is a lesson for modern Israel. Let all who claim to be children of God understand that He will not serve with their sins any more than He would with the sins of ancient Israel. God hates hereditary and cultivated tendencies to wrong (Letter 34, 1899).

Royalblood: so I obeyed the voice and read from Jeremiah chapter 2 into chapter 3
Jeremiah 2:22 For though thou wash thee with niter, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

marked= written in a book.
take note :
"Every man's work passes in review before God. . . . Opposite each name in the books of heaven is entered, with terrible exactness, every wrong word, every selfish act, every unfulfilled duty, and every secret sin, with every artful dissembling. Heaven-sent warnings or reproofs neglected, wasted moments, unimproved opportunities, the influence exerted for good or for evil, with its far-reaching results, all are chronicled by the recording angel. {FLB 210.6}

Jeremiah 3: Latter rain will not come by mere prayers. But on those who and when the putting away of sin is tangibly evident.

JEREMIAH 3
1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

When God brings judgement on His people none escape unscathed who have not humbled them selves and walk in his statutes previously..He gives ample time and evidence of his beckoning love.

Ezekiel 9 and this is not Shepherd's Rod message its Bible.

1 He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
2 And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.
3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
5 And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
7 And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
8 And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

Old and young ?
Deuteronomy32:25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

judgements of the severest kind will come, it mattes not if its literal or not but it is clear those who are not under not with our God but reside in church is not under the banner of his protection and as in Israel of Old will feel the full fury of his wrath because they have denied counsel ,ridicule his message,been indifferent to the certain sound of the watchmen.
Now they feel the full wrath of our God.

Lord have mercy on us who have taken your LOVE FOR GRANTED.

THUS SAITH THE WORD OF THE LORD.
Royalblood
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Islamic revolutions currently resembles that of the French Revolution take note.

Revolutionary Road: Egypt mass protests spontaneous? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFlfbwNM08&feature=player_embedded

Al Jazeera speaks to an Egyptian activist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M6dOZCX5gE&feature=player_embedded


Islamic revolutions currently resembles that of the French Revolution take note.

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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–99) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from liberal political groups and the masses on the streets. Old ideas about hierarchy and tradition succumbed to new Enlightenment principles of citizenship and inalienable rights.

The French Revolution began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General in May. The first year of the Revolution witnessed members of the Third Estate proclaiming the Tennis Court Oath in June, the assault on the Bastille in July, the passage of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in August, and an epic march on Versailles that forced the royal court back to Paris in October. The next few years were dominated by tensions between various liberal assemblies and a conservative monarchy intent on thwarting major reforms. A republic was proclaimed in September 1792 and King Louis XVI was executed the next year. External threats also played a dominant role in the development of the Revolution. The French Revolutionary Wars started in 1792 and ultimately featured spectacular French victories that facilitated the conquest of the Italian peninsula, the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine—achievements that had defied previous French governments for centuries. Internally, popular sentiments radicalized the Revolution significantly, culminating in the Reign of Terror from 1793 until 1794 during which between 16,000 and 40,000 people were killed.[1] After the fall of Robespierre and the Jacobins, the Directory assumed control of the French state in 1795 and held power until 1799, when it was replaced by the Consulate under Napoleon Bonaparte.
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This Man Is Deceived About The Rapture: Laurie: What Every Last Days Believer Needs to Know

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Laurie: What Every Last Days Believer Needs to Know

By Lillian Kwon|Christian Post Reporter

Things are happening in our world that are indeed signs of the end times, said evangelist Greg Laurie.

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Pastor Greg Laurie preaches Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, about the end times at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif.

While this certainly isn't the first time a preacher has made such a statement, the ongoing chaos in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East, among other things, has prompted the Southern California preacher to prepare Christians for the last days.

"What every last days believer needs to know" was the name of Laurie's message, preached to thousands at Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif., and over the internet on Sunday.

"I do believe that these are bona fide signs of the times alerting us to the fact that Christ is coming back again," he said. Like labor pains, the prophetic events that are spelled out in the Bible are happening with greater intensity and more frequently.

Some of the events Laurie listed as signs of the times include: the civil unrest in Egypt, the emergence of China as a military and economic superpower, the diminishing of the United States as a superpower, the growing aggression of Russia and the growing threat of militant Islam.

Another sign of the times – imposters.

"There will be imposters, genuine imitations, fake Christians, posers," he said. "These are people that are pretending to be something they're not – hypocrites in the truest sense of the word. They're putting on a performance."

And they're also invading churches, particularly large ones.

"What are we supposed to be doing as believers living in these last days?" Laurie posed.

Live like you really believe Jesus is coming, he answered.

Just like an officer on the road causes a driver to suddenly be cautious of his or her speed and slow down, the return of Jesus should affect the way Christians live, he illustrated.

"If we really believe Jesus is coming, it should affect our conduct."

Yet many believers are succumbing to Satan's subtle and effective temptations of compromise.

That "little sin" that some try to rationalize, however, works like yeast and permeates every area of one's life, Laurie said, citing parables in the Bible.

"We are to keep our lives pure," he told the congregation, urging them to turn from and repent of any compromises in their life.

To put it in better perspective, he said, "Get right with God or get left behind."

He also urged Christians to, like dragging a net in the water to catch all kinds of fish, bring as many people to Christ as they can.

The end days, he explained, will consist of rapture (where "all true believers" will be called up to heaven), tribulation, the emergence of the antichrist, the battles of Armageddon, the second coming of Christ, the millennium (thousand-year reign of Christ on earth), and then finally heaven and earth becoming one.

"We're going to see the good and the bad ... and the Lord will ultimately have the victory," he asserted.

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Teen Allegedly Dismembered Mother, Stored Body in Freezer

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Chilling Confession: Teen Allegedly Dismembered Mother, Stored Body in Freezer
Moises Meraz-Espinoza, 18, Told Cops He Killed His Mother and Cut Her Up
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
A Los Angeles mom who was dismembered and her
body parts found in her own freezer was afraid of the
teenage son who has been charged with murder,
according to neighbors.

Moises Meraz-Espinoza, 18, allegedly stored his
mother's chopped up body parts in the family freezer
for a week, before walking into a Huntington Park
police station and turning himself in on Friday.

Epifanio Hernandez, the apartment's landlord, told
ABC News.com that he spoke with the teen hours
before he went to police to confess the chilling
murder.

For days Meraz-Espinoza, shooed away nosey
neighbors, including the landlord who wanted to
enter the apartment to install a new sink.

"I was putting the new sinks in all of the kitchens for
the apartments," landlord Epifanio Hernanadez told
ABCNews.com. "But he kept saying not now, come
back next week. I think because he didn't want me to
see all the blood."

After police investigated and removed the refrigerator
and freezer as part of the investigation, Hernandez
entered the apartment.

"There was blood still in the shower and on the floor.
A lot of blood," he said.

Hernandez said the teen and his mother "had
problems."

"She was afraid of him," the landlord said. "The
neighbors said they would fight. They had problems
because he would go out at night. People were
worried something might happen."

"The neighbors say they had not seen her for a week,"
Hernandez said.

Authorities have yet to identify the body, said Lt.
Cheryl McWillie, of the L.A. County Corner, and would
not comment until they had done so.
But Lt. Brian Elia, of the Coroner's Department told
Britain's Daily Mail, "The body does appear to have
been dismembered to some extent."

A spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff said
Meraz-Espinoza had been arrested for "murder in
connection with the death of an individual discovered
in the freezer of a Maywood apartment Friday."

Meraz-Espinoza has yet to be arraigned and is being
held without bail, police said.

He does not have a lawyer at this time.
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Muzzammil Hassan: Guilty Verdict in NY Beheading of his wife Aasiya

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Muzzammil Hassan: Guilty Verdict in NY Beheading Case

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Muzzammil Hassan: Guilty Verdict in NY Beheading Case

Muzzammil Hassan and his wife Aasiya Hassan (AP Photo/Bridges TV)

(CBS/WIVB/AP) After an hour of deliberations, a Buffalo, N.Y. jury returned a guilty verdict against Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan for second-degree murder Monday in the beheading of his wife Aasiya.

According to CBS affiliate WIVB, the Pakistan-born Hassan, who acted as his own attorney, concluded his two-hour long closing arguments with, "I don't blame my wife."

Prosecutors said Hassan, the former executive of a Muslim-oriented television station, killed his wife Aasiya in a final act of domination and control.

Both the prosecution and the defense agree that Hassan killed his wife on February 12, 2009 at Bridges TV, a television station they had co-founded with the hope of countering negative images of Muslims after 9/11.

Surveillance video from the day Aasiya was murdered shows Hassan, who stands over 6 feet tall, testing the sharpness of the hunting knives he bought at Wal-Mart two hours before the killing.

On that same day, he was captured on video at the TV station were he surprised his wife from behind after luring her there to drop off clothes for him, Bonanno said.

The Hassans had two young children.

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D.C. priest on leave faces more charges of sex abuse

A Catholic friar who was convicted of inappropriately touching a teenage boy in the District of Columbia in 2007 has been arrested in Florida on charges of having a sexual relationship (it's actually called "RAPE") with a 14-year-old boy.



William C. Wert, 53, is being held in a Sarasota County jail on 10 counts of committing a sex offense against a child. He had been living in a retirement home for clergy in Venice, Fla. He went there after he was found guilty of assaulting a 14-year-old he had followed from a Metro station.
Last week, another 14-year-old boy and his father filed a complaint after the father found inappropriate messages from Wert on his son's cell phone, sheriff's deputies said.
Investigators found text messages and a motel room receipt connecting Wert to the boy.
Deputies said Wert engaged in sex with the boy several times between September 2010 and last month.
At the time of the D.C. incident, Wert oversaw Whitefriars Hall in Northeast Washington, where he trained young men to be priests.
A spokesman for Whitefriars Hall on Friday said Wert hadn't worked at the institution in four years and referred inquiries to the Chicago office of the Order of Carmelites. A message left at the headquarters was not returned.
According to D.C. court documents, on May 22, 2007, Wert followed a boy from the from the Brookland-CUA Metro station in Northeast Washington.
Wert began to talk to the boy, who was walking home from school. After he asked the boy his name, Wert asked, "Do you know somewhere we can hide?"
Police said he grabbed the boy's inner thigh, and the teenager yelled and hit Wert.
When police arrived, Wert claimed that the boy tried to rob him, but later admitted that he had was interested in the boy and apologized because there had been a mistake because he "misread" the teenager, documents said.
After a two-day trial, a D.C. judge found Wert guilty of simple assault. He was sentenced to 15 days in jail.
According to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Wert moved into the retirement home for Order of Carmelites in 2008.
A retired priest who lived at the home told the newspaper that Wert never explained why he had been on leave from Washington, D.C. and had recently bought a new Ford Mustang that was parked out front.
On the Carmelite web site it says of Wert, "William Wert, O.Carm., is the new Prior of Whitefriars Hall, the Carmelite House of Formation in Washington, DC. Father Bill made his profession in the Order in 1980 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1986. In this position as the Director of Formation, he oversees all the levels of formation for the Carmelite students. He will continue in his role as coordinator for the Province’s vocation team. He follow Father Emmett Gavin, O.Carm., who now ministers in New Jersey as a canonist for the Archdiocese of Newark, and as an associate pastor at Saint Anastasia’s Parish in Teaneck."
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