The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state can go forward with its investigation, which the Camden Diocese had challenged.

The Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and several of its foreign-born priests are hoping proposed legislation will resolve their lawsuit regarding religious worker visas.

People in Paterson, New Jersey, shared what it means to have a new pope with American and Peruvian roots.

Across the country, Catholic dioceses have found ways to trim or stall attorney general investigations into clergy sexual abuse and alleged cover-ups. In New Jersey, the state Supreme Court will ...

More churches are shutting their doors in New Jersey. That often means preservation fights and development opportunities.

A challenge filed by the Camden diocese led to a court ruling that short-circuited New Jersey's plans to investigate the Catholic church and sexual abuse.

Cash, checks and credit card information from about 500 North Jersey donors to the Catholic Diocese of Paterson have gone missing in the mail, prompting a police investigation, the diocese told ...

Historic St. Michael's Church has served the city since 1929, when many Italian immigrants called Paterson home.

St. Michael Catholic Church in Paterson will be closed indefinitely beginning Friday, March 1, the Diocese of Paterson announced.The church, at 74 Cianci St. was built in 1929 at a cost of $175,000 ...

A Catholic church in Paterson for nearly a century is closing indefinitely starting Friday amid a possible restructuring of Catholic services in the state’s third-largest city, officials said ...

St. Michael's was erected almost a century ago by Italian immigrants. The Paterson Diocese said it hopes to reopen the church but gave no timetable.