Decades of disturbing clergy abuse at elite NJ Catholic school set to be exposed — and its former leader could be state’s next cardinal
Auxiliary Bishop Elias R. Lorenzo — a potential successor to Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who will reach the mandatory retirement age in May 2027 — served for three decades as a teacher and clergy leader at the all-boys Catholic school in Morristown.
During his time, at least 30 students came forward with sexual abuse allegations against Delbarton clergy, the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests said — some with lurid claims of being brutally abused hundreds of times by Benedictine monks.
Delbarton — a Benedictine Catholic middle and high school in tony Morristown where tuition is $48,725 a year — boasts a long list of famous alumni, including “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage, Yankees starting shortstop Anthony Volpe and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s sons.
But for the last decade and a half, the school has been in the news over sex abuse allegations against several clergy members at the school — including a former headmaster.
Most recently, a 2021 lawsuit filed by a former student claims that he was raped and abused more than 150 times by a trio of monks as a Delbarton seventh grader in the 1970s.
Survivors have long accused the school of waging a campaign to silence them.
Victim Tom Crane, whose lawsuit was settled in 2018, told the Daily Record that he endured a “nightmare of intimidation” after filing the suit claiming he and his brother were sexually abused by two Delbarton monks in the 1970s.
His attorney Gregory Gianforcaro, who currently represents 31 plaintiffs against Delbarton and nearly 50 victims total, said prosecutors are certain to include the school in the new grand jury investigation.
“I am confident that once the results of this investigation are public that there’s going to be a lot of information that will surface about the survivors,” Gianforcaro told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/nj...on-school/
Auxiliary Bishop Elias R. Lorenzo — a potential successor to Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who will reach the mandatory retirement age in May 2027 — served for three decades as a teacher and clergy leader at the all-boys Catholic school in Morristown.
During his time, at least 30 students came forward with sexual abuse allegations against Delbarton clergy, the Survivors Network of those Abused By Priests said — some with lurid claims of being brutally abused hundreds of times by Benedictine monks.
Delbarton — a Benedictine Catholic middle and high school in tony Morristown where tuition is $48,725 a year — boasts a long list of famous alumni, including “Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage, Yankees starting shortstop Anthony Volpe and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s sons.
But for the last decade and a half, the school has been in the news over sex abuse allegations against several clergy members at the school — including a former headmaster.
Most recently, a 2021 lawsuit filed by a former student claims that he was raped and abused more than 150 times by a trio of monks as a Delbarton seventh grader in the 1970s.
Survivors have long accused the school of waging a campaign to silence them.
Victim Tom Crane, whose lawsuit was settled in 2018, told the Daily Record that he endured a “nightmare of intimidation” after filing the suit claiming he and his brother were sexually abused by two Delbarton monks in the 1970s.
His attorney Gregory Gianforcaro, who currently represents 31 plaintiffs against Delbarton and nearly 50 victims total, said prosecutors are certain to include the school in the new grand jury investigation.
“I am confident that once the results of this investigation are public that there’s going to be a lot of information that will surface about the survivors,” Gianforcaro told The Post.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/nj...on-school/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
