June 8, 2012 DIOCESE OF CAMDEN 75TH ANNIVERSARY

A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE S2 — CATHOLIC STAR HERALD 75 Years JUNE 8, 2012 “With gratitude to God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit for 75 years of Grace and faith in the Diocese of Camden.

May the , Patroness of our Diocese draw all of us closer to her Son Jesus.” — Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, D.D., J.C.D. — JUNE 8, 2012 Full of Grace CATHOLIC STAR HERALD — S3 InsideInside Looking back on the history of the diocese Pastoral Priorities S5, S7, S9, S11, S13, S15 S25, S27, S29, S31, S33, S37, S39

Born with the Diocese of Camden Patroness of the Diocese S17, S19 S41

Bishop Galante, Vision for the Future Parishes of the Diocese, Mission S21 Statement S44 Windows into the Past S22-S23

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We look forward to the next 75 years. S4 — CATHOLIC STAR HERALD 75 Years JUNE 8, 2012

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TD Bank is proud to congratulate The Diocese of Camden on their 75th Jubilee Anniversary!

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To The Most Reverend Bishop Joseph A. Galante, the Clergy, Religious Communities and all the Faithful of the Diocese of Camden

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary for Seventy-Five Years of Dedicated Service!

St. Mary Medical Center, Langhorne, PA and Holy Redeemer of Pennsylvania and New Jersey are honored to partner with the Camden Diocese in the formation of seminarians, on-going formation of priest chaplains and deacon candidates through our Clinical Pastoral Education Programs.

The mighty ocean and its beaches, which surround much of your shore areas with gifts of food and revitalizing energy, are a reflection of the goodness and beauty gracing your Diocese. You are also called to respond to the diverse realities that invite challenging expressions of dedicated love and service in ministry.

We pray that the amazing graces that are part of your history continue to unfold in furthering the future of your vision and ministry which is unique to your charism.

God bless the Diocese of Camden! JUNE 8, 2012 Full of Grace CATHOLIC STAR HERALD — S5 The beginnings of the Camden Diocese

glass factory, established in Mary’s, Gloucester in 1849 and 1859, 1740 on Alloway Creek in respectively. A Salem County, was the nucleus In 1853 the Diocese of Newark was for four families created. Catholics who became New in the area Jersey’s first regu- remained under lar Catholic mis- The first parish the care of the sion center. Three “ Diocese of years later was the Newark until 1881 first recorded was established at when the Diocese Baptism. of Trenton was Catholics who established. lived in New St. Mary’s, With continued Jersey were the growth in the responsibility of Gloucester in 1849 Catholic popula- the Diocese of tion during the until first decades of 1808 when South this century, Pope Jersey passed under the authority of Pius XI on Dec. 9, 1937 established the the new Bishop of . Diocese of“ Camden for the people of Bishop Francis Kenrick dedicated the six southern-most counties of New the St. Mary’s Church in Pleasant Jersey, a region containing nearly 2,700 Mills on Aug. 15, 1830, the fourth square miles. This also marked the in New Jersey and time that New Jersey, previously part the first in the present-day Diocese of the ecclesiastical province of New of Camden. The first parish and York,became a separate province, with school were established at St. the metropolitan see at Newark. ST. MARY CHURCH, 1865. St. Mary Church, Gloucester City he idea of making Gloucester Foundry, Baltimore, are composed of a parish took shape in 1848, 10 bells, the largest 3,085 pounds and T when a petition was presented the weights gradually decreasing to to Bishop Kenrick of Philadelphia. the smallest, which weighs about 200 was first said in a private pounds. The total weight of all the house, but the accommodations bells, exclusive of the frames and soon proved too small for the grow- attachments, is 10,673 pounds. The ing congregation. entire value, including delivery and In 1849, a putting in the tower Protestant, Mr. Robb, was $3,200. donated the ground The Playing Stand for a church. It was for the bells is made built to seat 400 wor- of oak. It is almost shippers. square, having 10 The Rev. Thomas J. levers on brass McCormack was hinges, a silver plate appointed in on each lever bearing the spring of 1886, the letter denoting and soon found Photos by James A. McBride the tone of each there was more work to be done as respective bell, and above the lever the number of Catholics increased is a music rack. with the growth of the town. In the The chimes were of great impor- autumn of 1886, he secured 12 lots tance to the parish as the people bounded by Sumerset, Atlantic, and pledged what was then a great deal Monmouth streets. of money from their weekly earn- On March 24, 1888, ground was ings. broken for the current St. Mary The following names are engraved Church.The cost of the structure was on each bell: St. Mary, St. Joseph, St. $65,000. Thomas, St. Michael, St. Patrick, St. It is built of hard sandstone of a Dominic, St. Alphonsus, St. Ignatius, bluish gray color. The stone trim- St. Benedict and St.Vincent de Paul. mings are tool-dressed and the front The Stations of the Cross were has a fine stone gable cross.The style requisitioned March 1909 from of architecture is early Gothic. Germany and installed January 1911. The church is 140 feet in length by The total cost was $9,600. 70 feet in width. The tower and spire The windows in the new St. Mary stand 160 feet in height. Church come from the art studios of Above: The current St. Mary Church. At right, the cornerstone of the cur- The chimes, purchased Megnen, Clamens and Bordereau, rent church building. from the McShane Bell Paris et Augers. S6 — CATHOLIC STAR HERALD 75 Years JUNE 8, 2012

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His Grace, Metropolitan Stefan Soroka, and the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia offer Prayers, Congratulations, and an Expression of Fraternal Love for Most Reverend Bishop Joseph Galante, His Clergy, Religious, and Faithful on the 75th Anniversary of the Diocese of Camden. God Grant You Many Happy Years! JUNE 8, 2012 Full of Grace CATHOLIC STAR HERALD — S7

CATHEDRAL Catholics in OF THE IMMACULATE South Jersey, CONCEPTION 1743-1937 t a time when the force of anti-Catholicism limited A freedom of worship, clusters of Catholics began to rise across the six counties, and the first recorded baptism and Mass was Oct. 5, 1743. The place was a glass factory in Salem County and the celebrant was the apostle of South Jersey, Jesuit Father Theodore Schneider from St. Joseph’s, Philadelphia, a university professor and rector. Father Ferdinand Farmer succeed- ed him in 1759 and made his last cir- cuit in exhaustion in 1785. In 1808 South Jersey became part of the Diocese of Philadelphia under Bishop Francis Kenrick. The first church in the present-day Diocese of Camden was dedicated at Pleasant Mills on the Mullica River in Atlantic County by Bishop Kenrick in 1830. Only the cemetery remains as an his- toric site. The church built in 1845 at Port Elizabeth in Cumberland County, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was the site of the earliest confirmations, all at the hands of Bishop Kenrick. In May of 1879, most of the church was transport- ed down river and creek to Goshen. In the mid-1800s Jesuits, , Augustinians and diocesan clergy from Philadelphia traveled across the South Jersey mis- sions on horseback or afoot, crossing streams and rivers, through forests in intolerable heat, with their sack strapped across their backs contain- ing what was needed for Mass and the Sacraments. Finally, Father Edmund Waldron, the first priest assigned to work primarily in South Jersey, arrived in Gloucester City in 1848 in spite of warning that he might be stoned there.The first Church of St. Mary in Gloucester was blessed by Bishop Kenrick in 1849; it was replaced by the present church in 1889. St. Mary is the oldest parish in the Diocese of Camden. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception After Bishop (now St.) requested that his Diocese he Cathedral of the Immaculate The parish is home to numerous cal counseling and direct social serv- of Philadelphia be made smaller, the TConception is 642 Market Street, ministries and services. Among ices to families in distress. Diocese of Newark was established in Camden. them: — The Camden Center For Law and 1853 headed by Bishop James In addition to being the Mother — Each weekday sandwiches are Social Justice, Inc. (CCLSJ) serves the Roosevelt Bayley. Camden was now Church of the Diocese of Camden, it is distributed to the needy. On legal needs of the immigrant commu- part of Newark and in these days one of three churches of Immaculate Tuesdays food bags are distributed. nity and working poor in Camden and Salem, Gloucester and Millville were Conception Parish, the others being — Holy Name School. throughout South Jersey. CCLSJ con- centers of Catholic worship along with Holy Name Church at 522 State Street — The Good Samaritan Clothing centrates its practice in immigration Immaculate Conception in Camden. and Our Lady of Mount Store makes donated clothing avail- law, family law, protecting victims of In 1855, Father James Moran, the first Carmel/Fatima at 832 S 4th Street. able to the needy each Wednesday at domestic violence, and general civil priest ordained in New Jersey, was A multi-cultural parish with no cost. law. CCLSJ reaches out to approxi- sent as pastor of the new parish. The English, Spanish and bilingual — St. Luke’s Catholic Medical mately 5,500 individuals each year. first church there was replaced in 1866 Masses, it has been staffed by Services. — The Holy Child, a social and with what is now the Cathedral of the the Oblates of St. Francis de — Guadalupe Family charitable group for Filipino Immaculate Conception. Sales since 2008. Services, which offers clini- Americans. S8 — CATHOLIC STAR HERALD 75 Years JUNE 8, 2012

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