Happy Thanksgiving! On this wonderful day, we give thanks to God for all His wonderful blessings: life, faith, family, friends, food, and so many blessings we receive each day! Especially, we give thanks for the blessings that we
With great jubilation, Msgr. Raymond Lopatesky reflected on the “magnificent adventure” of his 50 years as a priest so far during a well-attended Mass to commemorate his Golden Anniversary on Nov. 16 at St. Luke Parish in the
As we look toward Thanksgiving and Christmas, I realize that 2025 is quickly coming to an end, and so is the Jubilee Year of Hope. What will be our take-aways from this special time of grace? Hope has
“But,” said Moses to God, “if I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what do I tell them?”
Students at St. Anthony School in Hawthorne, N.J. paid tribute to our nation’s veterans in two ceremonies on Nov. 11. In the morning, the first- and eighth-grade classes walked to Hawthorne’s municipal building to participate in the town’s
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Insisting that the dignity of all people, including immigrants, must be respected, Pope Leo XIV asked U.S. Catholics and “people of goodwill” to read and listen to the U.S. bishops’ recent pastoral message on
St. Joseph Parish in West Milford, New Jersey’s oldest Catholic faith community, marked three major milestones during a Mass with Bishop Kevin J. Sweeney on Nov. 16: the parish’s 260th birthday, the 120th anniversary of its current church,
For the first time, the holiday craftwork of Wrapped in Love, a new ministry of volunteer knitters and crocheters at St. Lawrence the Martyr Parish in Chester, N.J., will appear at the township’s annual Festival of Trees fundraiser,
12/1 Mon., 12 Noon Priests’ Advent Day of Recollection – St. Paul Inside the Walls, Madison. 12/2 Tue., 10 a.m. Board of Bishops’ Meeting – Diocese of Trenton, Trenton; 6 p.m. Firefighters’ Annual Christmas Dinner. 12/5 Fri., 7:30





