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Church janitor charged with killing priest

MORRISTOWN, N.J. (UPI) -- A janitor at a Catholic church in New Jersey was charged Saturday with killing a priest whose body was found in the kitchen of the church rectory.

Jose Feliciano, 64, allegedly stabbed the Rev. Edward Hinds, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said at a news conference. Investigators said the priest had been stabbed 32 times and had defensive wounds on his hands, suggesting a struggle, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reported.

Hinds's body was discovered Friday morning after he failed to appear at 8 a.m. mass at St. Patrick's Church in Chatham, a well-to-do suburb of about 10,000 people 25 miles west of New York.

A mass honoring Hinds was held Saturday morning in the gymnasium of the church parochial school. While Bianchi talked to reporters in Morristown, parishioners were at the 5 p.m. mass in the church.

Hinds, who grew up in Chatham, was ordained as a young man after study in Rome. He spent his life as a priest in the diocese of Paterson, which includes all of northwestern New Jersey, and had been at St. Patrick's since 2003.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 10/24/2009

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