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Bishop O'Connell: the shepherd and the sheep in a time of pandemic
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that influenza in the United States was associated with over 35.5 million confirmed illnesses and more than 34,200 deaths during the 2018-2019 influenza season.
‘Ordinary Time’ is anything but ordinary
With the Christmas Season behind us, Catholics enter into a period referred to as “Ordinary Time” in the Church’s liturgy. In our vernacular usage, the word "ordinary" describes what is commonplace, "everyday" or without uniqueness or special distinction.
Keeping Christmas Spirit throughout the Season
The “Christmas Season” in the Catholic Church lasts from Christmas Eve until the Feast of the Baptism...
A message from Bishop O'Connell: Pope Francis announces 'The Year of St. Joseph'
Today, on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, His Holiness Pope Francis has used the feast day to declare the year ahead, beginning today, the “Year of St. Joseph,”...
A message from Bishop O’Connell: ‘Mary, you have found favor with God'
We have heard St. Luke’s narrative of the Annunciation so often in the Church’s celebrations of Mary, the Mother of God. That word is proclaimed once more at Mass on this year’s feast of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception.
Bishop O'Connell: Solitude cannot extinguish the joy of Jesus’ birth
Sometimes, when you’re all alone – as we have often been throughout these many months of pandemic – you hear things differently, more clearly than when you’re surrounded by others in a crowded room, in a class, in an office where the phone keeps ringing and people file in and …
Bishop on fourth week of Advent: A time to encounter
The word “advent” comes from the Latin term adventus, literally meaning “coming to.”
A message from Bishop O'Connell: Thanksgiving – taking gratitude a step further
Gratitude and thanksgiving are certainly admirable human qualities and the source of many social graces.
Bishop O’Connell: Proposed legislation targets most vulnerable human life
The proposed New Jersey “Reproductive Freedom Act” (S3030 / A4848) is another legislative attempt to advance and expand the state’s “abortion agenda” in service to the widespread “culture of death” by eliminating the few remaining state regulations intended to protect the life and health of pregnant mothers.
Bishop O’Connell: Day Two of the USCCB fall meeting
The second day of the annual USCCB Fall Meeting began with the bishops of New Jersey and Pennsylvania gathering virtually as Region III of the nation’s prelates.
Bishop O'Connell: Day One of the fall meeting of the U.S. bishops
Although the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops hosted a webinar Nov. 2 to demonstrate how to participate in the Nov. 16-17 online meeting of the nation’s bishops ...
‘In Service to One, In Service to All’
The Knights of Columbus (KOC) of the Diocese of Trenton rejoiced with their brother Knights throughout the world at the Vatican announcement that their founder, Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney, would advance one step closer to canonization with his beatification on October 31, 2020, in St. Joseph Cathedral in Hartford, …
A message from Bishop O’Connell: Veterans Day – a noble cause
“We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with …
Bishop O'Connell: A Prayer for the United States of America
Whatever our politics may be, whatever side we may have taken, whatever vote we may have cast, we are all called anew to pray for our country and its leaders that Almighty God ...
A message from Bishop O’Connell: Civility now, civility always
There are virtues and then there are virtues. Here's one you don't see a lot of today: civility.
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