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The name of God and of humanity were desecrated today in Christchurch, New Zealand when people filled with hate violated the sacred precincts of two mosques and murdered 49 innocent people during prayer. We grieve with the bereaved families of the victims and their communities, and we condemn in the strongest terms possible these barbaric acts of premeditated violence and murder. Today we must all see ourselves as Muslims. We must see ourselves as Muslims because...
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Archdiocesan News
March 18, 2019
March 15, 2019
On Saturday, April 6, 2019, the Office of Schools of the Archdiocese of Newark in collaboration with ProjectEngin will host the third annual STEM EXPO at the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center located at 499 Belgrove Drive in Kearny, New Jersey. Projects from hundreds of Catholic elementary school students from 37 elementary schools in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties will be on...
March 14, 2019
This Lent I’ve been focusing on the seven sorrows of Mary, which span Jesus’ infancy through his death and burial. The scene that comes back to me over and over in prayer is that of Mary cradling her deceased Son on her lap – the image known as the pieta. I think it’s a natural reaction, when someone dies, for loved ones to want to see and touch the body of the deceased. In our mission caring for the elderly...
March 13, 2019
The Archdiocese of Newark has a long tradition of honoring with a special liturgy those couples in the Archdiocese celebrating 5, 25 or 50 years or more of Christian Marriage. These annual liturgies take place in the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the mother church of the Archdiocese. On Sunday, April 28, beginning at 3 p.m., Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, will be the celebrant of Mass for couples marking 50 or more years of marriage. On Sunday...
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