The 2023 Diocesan Ministries Appeal kicks off this week with the theme “I Have Called You By Name.” This annual initiative helps support seminarian formation, Catholic Charities, urban Catholic education, and care for our senior priests.
Every week, a Catholic Charities truck pulls into the parking lot of St. Mary’s in Denville to empty the clothing donation bin. The rumble is a familiar sound that evokes mixed emotions for Father Martin Glynn, the parish pastor. He thinks about the generosity of his parishioners. But it also reminds him of the great need that exists and how the Church is responding to it through Catholic Charities. The need is overwhelming, he said, pointing to a recent visit to the Father English Food Pantry in Paterson.
I think I was in late high school or early college (already thinking about priesthood) when I first remember hearing the story of how I came to be named Kevin. When my Mom came from Ireland, after living with an aunt and uncle for a while and getting a job (with Con Edison) and another job on the weekends, she moved into an apartment in Elmhurst, Queens, with two roommates.
The audience and the statement from the Rome diocese, they said, demonstrate that “the church isn’t interested at all in the victims and those who ask for justice.”
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