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December 11
In the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson on Dec. 8, the Second Sunday of Advent, the faithful from the Paterson Diocese came together in celebration of the season of the anticipation of Christ’s birth for the annual diocesan Christmas Concert.Read More -
December 11
Waiting during Advent for the birth of Jesus at Christmas gives way to an even greater “waiting in joyful hope” within Catholics through faith that opens the door to “authentic hope” in God’s saving work through us that transforms the world and in accepting his gift of redemption in the next life. That was what Benedictine Abbot Elias Lorenzo, president of the American Cassinese Congregation, told priests of the Diocese on Dec. 4 at an Advent Day of Recollection for Priests at St. Paul Inside the Walls: the Diocesan Center for Evangelization at Bayley-Ellard in Madison.Read More -
December 11
On the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, an urgent phone call came in to Jenny Hubbard, asking that she come to her daughter Catherine Violet’s school, Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn. With reports of a gunman in the school, Hubbard huddled with other frantic parents on a street corner nearby, waiting for news and pleading with God, “If you bring Catherine home, I will be your faithful servant.” But tragically, Catherine, age 6, never made it home — the victim of a shooting that left 28 people dead. Hubbard told her story on Dec. 7 at this year’s diocesan Women’s Conference held at St. Paul Inside the Walls: the Diocesan Center for Evangelization at Bayley-Ellard in Madison.Read More -
December 11
The frosty air is here signaling the coming of winter and as the colder temperatures hit, many children in the inner city are in need of a warm coat. Responding to that need, Knights of Columbus councils from around the Diocese joined together at the Bishop Rodimer Center at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Paterson Dec. 8 to hand out winter coats to children in the cathedral parish’s religious education program through the Knights’ Coats for Kids program.Read More -
December 11
Before the Vatican held its annual Christmas tree lighting Dec. 5, Pope Francis expressed hope that the Nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square will be a reminder to all of what Christmas is truly about. A Nativity scene “is a genuine way of communicating the Gospel, in a world that sometimes seems to be afraid of remembering what Christmas really is, and blots out the Christian signs to only keep those of a banal, commercial imagination,” Pope Francis said.Read More -
December 5
Young people who feel unworthy about the vocation to which God might be calling them, might empathize with Jeremiah in the Old Testament. When the Lord first called him to become a prophet of ancient Israel, he responded by telling him, “Not me!” Bishop Serratelli told young people at a vocations-awareness event on Nov. 18 at Morris Catholic High School in Denville.Read More
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Bishop Serratelli's article
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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Bp. Barron's Advent Reflections
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Friends, in today’s Gospel Jesus offers to free us from the burden of our pride. What is it that makes our lives heavy and weighed down? Precisely the burden of our own egos, the weight of one’s own...
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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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The clerical sexual abuse scandal "may be the greatest moral crisis in the history of the Church," said Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.
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IMAGE: CNS photo/Joel Mason-Gaines, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Suzanne Brown-Fleming was on a track to the kind of career she wanted. After having...
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Today’s Readings
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Reading 1 Is 40:25-31Responsorial Psalm Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and 10Gospel Mt 11:28-30
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Reflecting on this reality, as the season of Advent approaches (and, of course, the season of Christmas to follow), you might perhaps consider what gifts you might give to those you love and how best...
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You wake up at 8 am on a Sunday to go to Mass with your family. You’re doing great during the readings, listening attentively, noticing connections between them. You even stay awake for the whole...
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When God made the first humans, He didn’t say, “Well, Adam would be better if he had a six-pack.” or “If only I hadn’t made Eve’s nose so big.” NO! He looked at Adam and Eve and found them “very good”
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