Mark Mueller

Mark Mueller is an author at Religion News Service.

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N.J. priest faces judge for violating ban on access to children

By Mark Mueller — May 21, 2013
HACKENSACK, N.J. (RNS) Wearing a bright orange prison jumpsuit, the priest at the center of the furor in the Archdiocese in Newark made his first court appearance on Tuesday on charges he violated a court-sanctioned ban on working with children.

3 more resign in scandal swirling around accused N.J. priest

By Mark Mueller — May 6, 2013
COLTS NECK, N.J. (RNS) The "body count" is now up to four, including the pastor and two youth ministers who allowed an accused priest continued access to children. The accused priest's archbishop, meanwhile, remains in office.

Accused priest at center of N.J. scandal resigns

By Mark Mueller — May 3, 2013
(RNS) The Roman Catholic priest at the center of a public furor enveloping Newark Archbishop John J. Myers has resigned from ministry, a spokesman for the archdiocese said Thursday.

N.J. Catholics outraged over accused priest’s access to children

By Mark Mueller — April 30, 2013
(RNS) Newark Archbishop John J. Myers is facing fierce criticism for his handling of a priest who attended youth retreats and heard confessions from minors in defiance of a court-ordered lifetime ban on ministry to children.

2,711 pages later, Orthodox Jews mark end of 7-year Talmud study

By Jason Grant and Mark Mueller — August 2, 2012

Billed as the largest celebration of shared Jewish learning in history, some 90,000 Orthodox Jews crowded into a New Jersey stadium to read portions of the Talmud’s 2,711th — and final — page. By Mark Mueller and Jason Grant.

NEWS FEATURE/PROFILE: Pope Benedict XVI: Humility and the Man

By Mark Mueller — April 26, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Seen through the gauzy lens of history, Joseph Ratzinger’s arrival in the world borders on the mystical. He was born the day before Easter, the second son of deeply religious parents named Joseph and Mary. Within four hours of his first breath, he had been baptized. Seventy-eight years later, […]
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