The outgoing president of The Catholic University of America, Vincentian Father David O’Connell, has been named coadjutor bishop of Trenton, N.J., by Pope Benedict XVI.
We, the Catholic Bishops of New Jersey, urge the Members of the New Jersey Legislature to maintain New Jersey’s commitment to affordable housing.
On May 27, there was a dog in classroom 4A at St. Francis Cathedral School. He posed for pictures, wrote on the chalkboard and signed his autograph for dozens of fourth-grade students.
Knights of Columbus from the Diocese of Metuchen participated in a North American effort to pay tribute to Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, on June 5.
Time capsules are often full of irreverent pop culture relics meant to be seen by a new generation years later, however, fourth grade students at Our Lady of Lourdes School took the concept to a personal and much more meaningful level.
The town had a lively literary community and the newspaper editor had a fondness for covering area authors’ latest books. I was a freelancer who got lucky every once in a while and snagged one of these book review assignments.
Some dimensions of parish ministry have been studied at length, like the priesthood itself, but parish pastoral councils (PPCs) have received little attention from Church social scientists . . . until now!
“Should I stay or should I go now?” The words of this ’80s punk rock song began popping up in my head recently after spending some time reflecting on my relationship with the Church. Those few words certainly identify the interior struggle I’ve entered into numerous times over the years since my first confrontation with the Church as a teenager.
Garrison Keillor jokes in one of his monologues about a fictional church where congregants can attend without getting out of their cars. I don’t know if that kind of drive-up worship exists, but it wouldn’t surprise me. After all, we expect information to appear on a screen a nanosecond after we’ve clicked on the “search” button, so some of us might well be conditioned to speed up our visits with God.
