In response to rising tensions at the Delaney Hall immigrant detention facility in Newark, the Archdiocese of Newark held a prayer service about half a mile from its entrance.
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Faithful Join In Our Lady of Fatima Procession Through Newark On Her Feast Day
Hundreds walked four miles and prayed the rosary through the streets of Newark behind the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima May 13 — the anniversary of Our Lady’s first apparition at the Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal, 106 years ago — during a special procession.
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.
Cardinal Tobin Leads Catholic Activists in Immigration Protests
The immigration issue came to the streets of Newark, N.J., on Sept. 4, when Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of the
Archdiocese of Newark led a march of about 400 Catholic activists outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices to protest some of President Trump’s policies on dealing with migrants at the southern border.
Cardinal Tobin, New Jersey Bishops Denounce Assisted Suicide Act
As of August 1, a New Jersey law has gone into effect allowing residents over 18 to request medical assistance in dying by receiving a prescription for lethal medication, if they have a terminal diagnosis of six months or less to live.