1 Clark Priest Named On The 'Credibly Accused' List

CLARK, NJ — The journalism site ProPublica, a Patch Partner, recently released the most comprehensive list so far of Catholic clergy "credibly accused" of sexual abuse. The list includes one accused abuser with ties to Clark.

He has since been permanently restricted from the priesthood due to the allegations.

The searchable database — which includes nearly 200 priests accused from the dioceses of Metuchen, Newark, Trenton, Camden and Paterson — comes on the heels of various reports identifying hundreds of "predator" priests across the state.

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Here is the one priest on the ProPublic list with Clark ties:

Alan Guglielmo

Guglielmo, who was born in 1942 and ordained in 1968, served at a number of parishes including locally at Mother Seton Regional High School in Clark.

He also served at:

• Immaculate Conception, Secaucus
• St. Anthony of Padua, Newark
• Chaplain - Columbus Hospital, Newark
• Chaplain - St. Michael Medical Center, Newark
• St. Valentine, Bloomfield
• Chaplain - Mountainside Hospital, Montclair
• Chaplain - Clara Maas Hospital, Belleville
• Sacred Heart, Lyndhurst
• Chaplain, St. Mary Hospital, Hoboken
• St. Mary, Jersey City
• Spiritual DIrector, CYO Hudson, Jersey City
• Chaplain - Hudson Catholic Regional HS, Jersey City
• St. Aedan's the St. Peter's University Church, Jersey City
• St. Michael, Union
• Roselle Catholic, Roselle
• St. Helen, Westfield
• Assumption, Roselle Park

Guglielmo has been accused of abusing one victim during his time as reverend and since been permanently removed from ministry. It is unclear at which church the alleged child sex abuse occurred. He has since been permanently removed from the ministry.

ProPublica's project was spurred by a 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report, which named hundreds of priests as part of a statewide clergy abuse investigation.

Nationwide, the names of more than 5,800 clergy members have been released so far, representing the most comprehensive step toward transparency yet by a Catholic Church dogged by its long history of denying and burying abuse by priests.

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