I’ll admit my bias up front: today, but for “particular norms” granted to the U.S. bishops, should be celebrated nationally as the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord. In some parts of ...

Patricia M. Gallacher Patricia M. Gallacher died at home on May 19, 2025, surrounded by her family. She was 90 years old.

It was first chosen by Pope Saint John I in 523, who died a martyr. The last pope to choose this name was Italian Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who was elected Pope John XXIII in 1958 and ...

Rice was among about 100 attendees who gathered in Saint John on Sunday morning to commemorate the sailors, merchant mariners and aviators who died in the Battle of the Atlantic. Rice comes from a ...

The long-anticipated NJSIAA track and field postseason has arrived, and teams across the Garden State are gearing up for a competitive weekend at their respective sectional meets. Just as a ...

It was Francis who finally declared John XXIII a saint in 2013, canonizing him the following year, on the same day he canonized Pope John Paul II, a more conservative figure in the modern church.

Nearly 30 years ago, two-year-old Jacqueline Brewer died of dehydration and neglect in a squalid Saint John apartment ... the judge included an order for a public memorial in Jacqueline's memory and ...

or Saint John XXIII. But as the Italian saying goes, “you got to make gnocchi with the dough you got,” and I expect that, soon, comparisons with popes of the past will cease, and we will begin ...

In a veritable who’s who of top New Jersey high school football programs, as for the second straight season, Pope John XXIII will face ... 7:00pm 9/13 vs Kellenberg Memorial 12:00pm 9/20 at ...

"Saint John XXIII, who embraced the whole world in his universal call for renewing the faith in Christ; Saint Paul VI, who gave his life to the Church with an undivided heart and never faltered ...

The last pope to choose that name was Italian Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope John XXIII, in 1958. Roncalli was proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in 2014. Other frequently used names ...