by Fr. Jim Chern
For those of us who work in Campus Ministry, within the next few weeks, there's a unique and special celebration that's occurring. Pope Francis will canonize John Henry Newman on October 13th - declaring him…
One of the beautiful things about Catholicism is the reality that as a faith, much of what we believe has been rationally, logically, reasonably explored. We have intellectual heavy weights from the earliest days of…
Every couple of weeks, all the campus ministers from the colleges and universities we serve in the Archdiocese of Newark come together for prayer, a short business meeting and some casual hang-out time. All of…
We’re so conditioned to seeing and reading things on the internet that are trending, that go viral that are in fact vile that it’s refreshing when the opposite occurs- where people share stories that are…
A couple of summers ago, one of the great crazes among students at Montclair State University involved “Justin Bieber sightings.” The rumors started that he had bought a house in town. He was spotted over…
A few months ago, a husband and wife’s marital debate went viral, becoming an international news story: A man by the name of Chris Marti who is a real estate agent in Texas, needed some…
Growing up the youngest of three sons, one of the things that many people often noticed about my brothers and I was how different each of us were. My oldest brother Chris was an excellent…
Two Christmases ago my brother gifted my Mom and I with tickets to see Hamilton on Broadway. Well technically speaking, as he handed the us the tickets, he informed us we were “done” for Christmas,…
At the end of your life, what will you recall? Kind of a loaded question, isn’t it? It’s kind of an unfair one too. Here it is in the middle of August - most people…
At first glance at this Gospel, I closed the book. With all the horrific news over the last few weeks it just wasn’t what I wanted to read. Mass-shootings where people at a Summer Festival,…