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September 19
On the night of Sept. 10, Sister Janice Jolin of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, painted striking portraits of the many Hondurans who seek to emigrate to the U.S., as one of three dynamic speakers who gave clear perspectives of the crisis at the border during a presentation about the heated issue of immigration at St. Mary Parish in Pompton Lakes.Read More -
September 19
Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Joseph Parish in Lincoln Park where he celebrated the vigil Mass for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 14. During the Mass, Bishop Serratelli appointed Father Dominik Bakowski as pastor. He was previously serving as the parish administrator.Read More -
September 19
Bishop Serratelli formally installed Father Kamil Peter Wierzbicki as pastor of St. Jude Parish here during his pastoral visit Sept. 15. During the visit, the Bishop celebrated Mass for the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.Read More -
September 19
The shock and sorrow that the Salesian Sisters of St. Joseph Province experienced 15 months ago gave way to joy on the afternoon of Sept. 14. On that perfect late summer day, the Salesians broke ground for the new St. Joseph Chapel to replace the former chapel — lovingly called “the heart” of the province and of Mary Help of Christians Academy (MHCA) in North Haledon — which was destroyed by a four-alarm fire on May 18, 2018.Read More -
September 19
Often called the “jewel of the Paterson Diocese” — the agencies of Diocesan Catholic Charities are the Church of Paterson’s visible example of being Christ to those most in need — the poor, the addicted and the disabled. The Catholic Charities network is vast, serving across three counties, and the scope of its ministries serve tens of thousands of people each year through its three agencies — Catholic Family and Community Services, Straight and Narrow and Department of Persons with Disabilities.Read More -
September 19
Over the last few decades, the news media has gone through numerous changes in the way it presents the news. None of us knows how the news media will evolve in future years in disseminating the news, but according to Pope Francis, it will have no future if reporters and the public cannot distinguish between facts and fiction.Read More -
September 11
The parish community of St. Anthony in Hawthorne welcomed Bishop Serratelli during his pastoral visit Sept. 1. During his visit, the Bishop celebrated Mass for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time.Read More -
September 11
Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Francis de Sales Parish in the McAfee section of Vernon Township where he celebrated Mass marking the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 8. During the Mass, the Bishop installed Father Christopher Barkhausen as pastor of St. Francis Parish.Read More
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Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Descent to Hades
On March 25, 2019, both the New Jersey Senate and Assembly passed the Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act. This means that, just as in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Washington, D.C., physicians can now help someone kill themselves. Legally! Doctors now become dealers in death. So contrary to the Hippocratic Oath that states “I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrong-doing. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course.”
Statement by the Catholic Bishops of New Jersey on What the Catholic Church has done and continues to do to Protect Children
March 4, 2019
Much attention has been given to the meeting of bishops in Rome last month called by Pope Francis to address a morally reprehensible, shameful and horrific crime – the sexual abuse of children.
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N.J. Independent Victim Compensation Program to begin accepting claims June 15
PATERSON Starting on June 15, the New Jersey Independent Victim Compensation Program (IVCP) will begin accepting claims related to the sexual abuse of minors by diocesan priests and deacons of the Roman Catholic dioceses of Paterson, Metuchen, Trenton and Camden and the Archdiocese of Newark.
The IVCP is administered by Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros, two noted victims’ compensation experts who have designed and administered similar compensation programs for the Catholic Dioceses in New York and Pennsylvania. They also have administered similar programs for Penn State sexual abuse claims, the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, and the BP Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Fund. -
News from the Vatican
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Soon-to-be Cardinal Michael Czerny, one of Pope Francis’s top collaborators inside the Roman Curia who serves as both the public face of Francis’s agenda for migrants and refugees and who is playing...
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Catholic News Service
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Sterlin Londono has been a priest for 21 years among his fellow Afro-Colombians in his home region of Choco in Colombia, which...
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Today’s Readings
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Reading 1 Am 8:4-7Responsorial Psalm Ps 113:1-2, 4-6, 7-8Reading 2 1 Tm 2:1-8Gospel Lk 16:1-13Or Lk 16:10-13
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Pastoral Letter – Feast of Corpus Christi 2019
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Life Teen Blog
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In reality, doubt can be a wonderful thing and it isn’t something that should scare anyone. Sometimes, it can be a tool that God uses to encourage you to dive deeper, refocus on your relationship...
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Every hope I had for true, authentic sisterhood where women built each other up was shattered by the words of women who put themselves and others down. I lived in the comfort of shallow female...
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We “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) regardless of how large or small we believe that sin to be. But it is the cross that changes everything!
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