After reflecting on the importance of the Catholic Center at Rutgers at Mass in St. Peter the Apostle Parish, Bishop Paul G. Bootkoski processed next door to bless the building April 11.
After nine months of listening, learning, praying and discerning their common future, the nine parishes of Perth Amboy presented Bishop Paul G. Bootkoski with a proposal for citywide social ministry and evangelization April 19.
Father Anthony de Maria Dandry, a retired priest who exercised his priestly ministry at several parishes throughout the diocese, was remembered for his strong faith and love of family and friends at a funeral Mass April 12.
Adults and preschoolers alike demonstrated the impact of high-quality early childhood education at the closing event of the Week of the Young Child at the Youth Enrichment Services Center.
Gov. Chris Christie visited Saint Peter's University Hospital April 9 to announce an increase in Charity Care, a payment assistance program to ensure uninsured and underinsured receive necessary hospital care.
Faithful members of the Morris Canal Deanery gathered at St. Joseph Parish to pray for their priests and for an increase in vocations at the final evening deanery prayer service in commemoration of the Year for Priests.
The spiritual life is a journey often impeded by the things to which we cling. Our culture of competition pressures us and our children to acquire and accomplish beyond a healthy point. Fearful of falling behind, or being different, we cling to the world’s way of doing things.
I spoke recently with William Henline, a graduate student at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, who has written a play about the famed actor Edwin Booth. The play, “Walking Shadows,” explores the manner in which Booth dealt with his feelings after his brother, actor John Wilkes Booth, murdered Abraham Lincoln in April 1865.
Often, the words “discipline” and “punishment” are used interchangeably, but in the world of child development, they mean different things.
