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Day: March 23, 2020

IT’S NOT FAIR

Thoughts + HomilySeptember 23, 2023

Imagine if the landowner in this parable were an actual employer at a business here in the United States in 2023.  Someone who had hired individuals at the start of the day, throughout the day,…

THE PATIENT GARDENER

Thoughts + HomilyJuly 23, 2023

On Friday, the polling firm Gallup released some of its latest findings, documenting that Americans’ belief in God has dropped to the lowest in the firm’s history.  From vast majorities in the early 2000s of…

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About

Fr. Jim Chern has been a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark since 1999.

He graduated with his master’s in theology from Seton Hall University. After his graduation he was assigned to Our Lady of Lourdes parish where he served as Parochial Vicar for 7 years.

In 2007 he was named director of the Newman Catholic Center at Montclair State University where he still serves.

In 2018 Fr. Jim was additionally named Archdiocesan Director of Campus Ministry by Cardinal Joseph Tobin.

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