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First Choice Women’s Resource Centers is a Christian nonprofit in New Jersey.

How a New Jersey pro-life pregnancy center is fighting the government’s ‘lawfare’

Nov 21, 2025

By Kate Quiñones

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case of New Jersey’s targeting of First Choice Women’s Resource... Read more

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New Jersey says parish finance director stole more than $500,000 in church funds

Oct 18, 2025

By Daniel Payne

Joseph Manzi has been charged with second-degree theft by unlawful taking after he allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars... Read more

A parish finance director in Lincroft, New Jersey, is alleged to have stolen more than $1.5 million in a lawsuit filed by the Church of St. Leo the Great.

New Jersey church says finance director stole $1.5 million, spent it on cigars, sports, vehicles

Aug 14, 2025

By Daniel Payne

A New Jersey church is alleging in a lawsuit that its finance director stole more than a million dollars over... Read more

A New Jersey former parish bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes, June 3, 2025.

New Jersey parish employee pleads guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from 2 churches

Jun 4, 2025

By Daniel Payne

A former parish bookkeeper in New Jersey has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $300,000 from two parishes. Read more

Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, New Jersey.

New Jersey bishop says diocese will drop fight against state’s grand jury abuse probe

May 7, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, said it will drop its fight against the state’s efforts to empanel a grand... Read more

Bishop-elect Joseph A. Williams.

Camden Coadjutor Bishop Joseph Williams succeeds Sullivan as bishop of diocese

Mar 18, 2025

By Madalaine Elhabbal

Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre made the announcement on March 17 in Washington, D.C. Read more

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New Jersey Supreme Court to consider whether grand jury can hear clergy abuse allegations

Mar 7, 2025

By Daniel Payne

The Diocese of Camden had argued that grand juries in New Jersey cannot be convened in instances of “clergy sexual... Read more

Zion Lutheran Church in Long Valley, New Jersey, is one of two churches that have won a victory against county officials who were excluding them from a historic preservation grant program.

Judge says New Jersey county can’t exclude churches from historic preservation grant

Dec 4, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The parishes were supported in their lawsuit by the First Liberty Institute and the University of Notre Dame School of... Read more

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Immigrant priests, New Jersey diocese sue U.S. State Department over visa delays

Aug 16, 2024

By Daniel Payne

The priests argue that the reorganization of the visa process last year will subject them to lengthy delays when reapplying... Read more

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New Jersey man locates $40,000 in ‘unclaimed funds’ for diocese, parishes

Jul 15, 2024

By Daniel Payne

Philip Britton, who lives in the western part of the state in the township of Pennsville, was searching the website... Read more

A handful of LOFRON resolution members stand outside of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Trenton, New Jersey. It was here where they recited the Prayer of Consecration of America to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on July 4, 2022.

More than 100 years after Fátima, New Jersey Knights of Columbus promotes similar message

Jul 13, 2024

By Gigi Duncan

The “Living Our Faith to Restore Our Nation” resolution was officially approved this past March by the Knights of Columbus... Read more

School children from St. Mary Academy watch the Eucharistic Procession on the campus of their home parish, St. Mary
of the Pines Church, Manahawkin, New Jersey, May 29, 2024.

Jersey Shore children encounter Jesus at stop on National Eucharistic Pilgrimage

Jun 2, 2024

By Sharon Delaney

The diocesan event was designed especially to bring awareness to school children about the real presence of Jesus in the... Read more

A dedication ceremony for the ultrasound machine donated by the Knights of Columbus to the First Choice Women's Resource Center in New Brunswick, N.J.

Supreme Court denies pregnancy center appeal to keep donor information private

May 15, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin last year had ordered First Choice Women’s Resource Centers to turn over communications. Read more

Members of the Houston-based Catholic Organization of Life carry their flag, alongside the state flag, at the 2024 Texas March for Life.

Pro-life leaders are ‘laser-focused’ on state marches this election year: Here’s what you need to know

Jan 31, 2024

By Peter Pinedo

With abortion set to be on the ballot this year in many states across the country, pro-life groups in several... Read more

Following his release, Bishop David O'Connell (third from left) joined Father Jean Felicien, Monsignor Thomas N. Gervasio, and Monsignor Sam Sirianni at their hotel in Rome.

Trenton Bishop released from Rome hospital after heart attack 

Jan 9, 2024

By Matt McDonald

Bishop David O’Connell suffered a heart attack while in Rome where he was preparing to lead a pilgrimage of 20... Read more

Antonia Salzano, Carlo Acutis' mother, and Bishop David O'Connell speak to schoolchildren at the blessing of the Carlo Acutis shrine at St. Dominic Parish in Brick, New Jersey. Oct 1, 2023.

Carlo Acutis’ mother places his first-class relic in new diocesan shrine in New Jersey

Oct 4, 2023

By Sharon Delaney

Blessed Carlo Acutis is on his way to becoming the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church, and his mother... Read more

Classroom in a Catholic school.

New Jersey court rules Catholic school can require teachers to follow Catholic teaching

Aug 15, 2023

By Peter Pinedo

The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Catholic school’s ability to enforce an employee code of conduct in line... Read more

The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association raised $2 million to rebuild their pier after it was wrecked by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. It is in the shape of a cross to honor God.

Cross-shaped pier a fitting replacement for one destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in Ocean Grove, N.J.

Apr 15, 2023

By Joe Bukuras

Less than a week after Easter this year, Ocean Grove, which has a peak population of about 8,000 in the... Read more

The Four Chaplains — Father John P. Washington, a Catholic priest (pictured above); Rev. George L. Fox, a Methodist minister; Rabbi Alexander D. Goode; and Rev. Clark V. Poling, a Reformed Church in America minister — gave their life jackets to save others when their ship was torpedoed in the frigid North Atlantic in 1943.

The ‘Four Chaplains,’ selfless heroes of WWII, honored on 80th anniversary of their deaths

Feb 6, 2023

By Jonah McKeown

A New Jersey parish church on Sunday honor the “Four Chaplains” who sacrificed their lives to save others on the... Read more

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18-year-old arrested after threats to New Jersey synagogues 

Nov 11, 2022

By Joe Bukuras

Omar Alkattoul of Sayreville, New Jersey, was arrested Thursday morning by federal authorities.  Read more