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September 13, 2018
Bishop Serratelli honored 106 individuals, couples and families at this year’s diocesan Vivere Christus Est awards ceremony. The honorees were called “manifestations of God’s compassion and love to their communities and the world.”
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September 13, 2018
Hero. It’s a word we hear less frequently these days when our world, our nation and our Church seem turned upside down. But it’s a word that certainly fits Father Vincent Capodanno, and his story needs to be told over and over again.
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September 6, 2018
Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to St. Joseph Parish in Lincoln Park where he celebrated the 10 a.m. Mass for the Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Sept. 2.
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September 6, 2018
Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit on Sept. 1 to Holy Family Parish in Florham Park where he served as main celebrant and homilist of the 5:30 p.m. vigil Mass for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Concelebrating the Mass were Father Thomas Rekiel, Holy Family’s pastor; Father Krzysztof Liwarski, parochial vicar; Father Frederick Walters, pastor emeritus; and Father Kevin Corcoran, diocesan vice chancellor and the Bishop’s priest-secretary.
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September 6, 2018
The National Review Board (NRB) has issued a response to the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report and recent allegations against Archbishop McCarrick. In the statement, the NRB calls for a lay-lead investigation into all allegations of sexual misconduct within the Church as well as strengthening the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.
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September 6, 2018
The horrific revelations of a sex abuse cover-up that have shaken the Church this summer — with decades-old allegations leveled against retired Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and a grand jury report that details the supposed crimes against children over more than 70 years by some 300 priests in Pennsylvania — have prompted anguished yet resolute responses not only by Pope Francis and prelates, such as Bishop Serratelli, but also from local clergy in parishes in the Diocese.
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September 6, 2018
Since its doors first opened on Sept, 24, 2013 in a former rectory, there have been more than 10,000 visits to the Passaic Neighborhood Center by women who live in the hardscrabble neighborhood of mostly immigrants on the city’s east side. Now, as the center, started by women religious who serve in the Diocese of Paterson, marks its fifth anniversary, it is poised to grow, hoping to expand and add new classes and other services in the hopes of reaching out to more women in the community in which it has rooted.
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September 6, 2018
“In God We Trust” is the official motto of the United States of America. It has appeared on currency since 1864, and according to a 2003 joint poll by USA Today, CNN, and Gallup, 90 percent of Americans support the inscription “In God We Trust” on U.S. coins. But that did not deter a group of 29 atheists from clogging up our court system with a suit claiming that “In God We Trust” violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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