For more than three decades, Brother Mickey McGrath has used his art to help tell the story of Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman, whose life and witness transformed his own creative work.
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Speaker Helps ‘Wounded Protectors’ Cope, Find Resilience After Trauma
Shifting careers from religious brother to schoolteacher to security expert to motivational speaker may seem like an odd collection of job pivots, but Vincent Bove counts it all as providence. In 2024, then-New York City Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon appointed Bove the Honorary Law Enforcement Motivational Speaker for the Police Self Support Group.
Mother Cabrini’s Legacy Enshrined Among 700 Relics at Newark Parish
A New Jersey parish houses nearly 700 relics thanks to Eric Lavin, a young devotee of Mother Cabrini who has spent years building one of the nation’s largest parish collections.
New Jersey Diocese Turns to Renewable Energy in Response to Encyclical
olar panels and energy-efficient equipment have come to a school, parishes and even the Pastoral Center of the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey.
March Madness Starts With Saint Peter’s Stunning Upset of Kentucky
St. Peter gained the upper hand on St. Patrick’s Day when the underdog team of the small Jesuit school, Saint Peter’s University of Jersey City, New Jersey, upset the mighty University of Kentucky in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
Update: New Jersey Catholic Bishops Decry Passage of Expansive new Abortion Law
In a joint statement Jan. 11, New Jersey’s Catholic bishops unequivocally condemned the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, an expansive abortion bill they said was passed with extraordinary haste by the state Senate and General Assembly a day earlier.
New Jersey Parishes Find Creative New Ways to Engage Catholics This Christmas
Tickets for Masses, virtual holiday concerts, video Christmas cards, and drive-by Nativity scenes: It’s beginning to look a lot like a different sort of Christmas.
Mourners Honor Life of Daniel Anderl, Celebrate His ‘Gift of Faith’
A lifelong Catholic and the only child of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas and defense attorney Mark Anderl, Daniel Anderl gave his life to protect his mother and father, taking the shooter’s first bullet directly to the chest, when a man holding a package on their front door step opened fire into the family’s home on July 19.
New Jersey Couples Finding Ways to Wed During Pandemic
It’s not easy getting married during a worldwide pandemic, but New Jersey couples are rising to the challenge.
Demand Up ‘Tenfold’ for Catholic Charities’ Help In One New Jersey Diocese
The director of food pantries for Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Paterson said the number of people coming for food “is just staggering.” “Throughout the last three months, we have helped more people that any time before in our 80-year history,” Carlos Roldan said in a statement July 13.