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  • Church loses volunteers to policy aimed at protecting kids

    11/24/2005 9:47:32 PM PST · by Coleus · 170 replies · 1,776+ views
    Star Ledger ^ | 10.27.05 | JEFF DIAMANT
    Charlie Hughes is a volunteer's volunteer, collecting old cell phones for battered women, running clothing drives and gathering old bicycles for reuse around the world. For more than two decades, the 74-year-old West Amwell man gave his time to St. John's Roman Catholic Church in Lambertville, most recently for the parish's Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which helps the poor. But a dispute over a church program designed to prevent abuse of children has angered Hughes and dozens of other volunteers, largely depleting the society's membership. At least 40 volunteers, lectors and eucharistic ministers have been dismissed or eliminated...