Tag: New Jersey
Coadjutor Bishop Joseph A. Williams for Camden feels ‘blessed’ Holy Spirit...
CAMDEN, N.J. -- "How blessed I am that the Holy Spirit brought me to South Jersey," Coadjutor Bishop Joseph A. Williams said, smiling as...
Diocese of Paterson (N.J.) sues federal government over religious worker visas...
A New Jersey diocese and several priests are suing the federal government over a rule change in religious worker visas, in a case that...
New Jersey’s Union Catholic High School alum Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone makes USA...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, an alumna of Union Catholic High School in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, has secured her place on Team USA...
Diocese of Trenton announces new, shortened diaconate program: ‘We need to...
TRENTON, N.J. -- A restructured program for deacon preparation in the Diocese of Trenton is set to be rolled out this fall, offering a...
New Jersey diocese follows pope’s ‘Care for Our Common Home’ by...
SOMERVILLE, N.J. -- Solar panels and energy-efficient equipment have come to a school, parishes and even the Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Metuchen,...
Although downgraded to a tropical storm, Ida continues to wreak havoc
WASHINGTON -- Even as a downgraded tropical storm, Ida, which caused untold damage in the South as a hurricane, continued to wreak havoc in...
Catholic former police chief Scott Thomson helped Camden, N.J., disband its...
NEW YORK -- In 2013, as police chief of Camden, New Jersey, J. Scott Thomson gave Camden Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan, a tour of...
Catholic communities mourn shooting death of son of federal judge Esther...
WASHINGTON -- Schools and a Catholic parish in New Jersey expressed pain but also offered prayers following the killing of 20-year-old Daniel Anderl, son...
Slain Jersey City police Det. Joseph Seals laid to rest after...
JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Thousands of people attended the Dec. 17 funeral Mass for Detective Joseph Seals, the police officer fatally shot Dec. 10...
New Jersey enacts ‘morally unacceptable’ law allowing assisted suicide, Cardinal Tobin...
NEWARK, N.J. -- Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark called New Jersey's new law allowing assisted suicide regrettable, saying "whatever its motives and means,"...