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State TitlesHonorable Mention

Catholic Star HeraldAlan M. Dumoff,

Freelance Photographer,Irish Come Up Short

By Peter G. Sánchez

This weekend, faith communities around theworld, including the Diocese of Camden, willmark the Epiphany of the Lord, remembering

the Three Kings’ visit to the baby Jesus inBethlehem.

Parishioners of Saint Mary of Mount Carmel,Hammonton, though, were already treated to a recre-ation of the Magi’s story on Dec. 22 as part of aweeklong celebration of the Saviors’ birth.

The multimedia performance, in Spanish and com-plete with music, lights, dancers and actors portray-ing shepherds, the three Kings, and the Holy Family,took place in the parish’s Saint Anthony of PaduaChurch Hall.

“It was a wonderful evening; the people loved it,”noted Sister Veronica Collado, of the Misioneras deMaria Formadora USA, who work in the parish’sHispanic Ministry.

“The event was the first of its kind at the parish,”she said, with hopes to make it an annual event inHammonton.

Tradition reveals the names of the Wise Men — orMagi — as Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar.

They bring gifts to Christ: gold, a symbol of king-ship; frankincense, a symbol of his priesthood; andmyrrh, an embalming oil, a reminder of his death tocome.

Last year, on the feast of the Epiphany, Jan. 6,Pope Francis said the Magi had the courage to set outon a journey in the hope of finding something new,unlike Herod who was full of himself and unwillingto change his ways.

The Wise Men who set out from the East in searchof Jesus personify all those who long for God andreflect “all those who in their lives have let theirhearts be anesthetized.”

“The Magi experienced longing; they were tired ofthe usual fare. They were all too familiar with, andweary of, the Herods of their own day. But there, inBethlehem, was a promise of newness, of gratuity,”he said.

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STATE TITLES — SaintAugustine’s Nick Leonetto tags outTom Meyer at home plate during theRichland Prep’s 6-1 victory overMercer County’s Notre Dame onJune 5 to win its third straight SouthJersey Non-Public A title. TheHermits went on to win the Non-Public A state title June 9 in a 1-0contest against Delbarton atVeterans Park in HamiltonTownship. The same dayGloucester Catholic captured its19th Non-Public B state title with a10-3 win over DePaul Catholic inHamilton Township.

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IRISH COME UP SHORT — Hakim Melvin from Camden Catholic HighSchool (Cherry Hill) goes up for a shot during the Irish’s battle for the NonPublic-A State Championship against Don Bosco Prep on March 10.Unfortunately, the Irish came up short, losing 61-54.

Photo by Mike Walsh

The Atlantic City Beach Patrol takes Bishop Dennis Sullivan and Mayor Frank Gilliam into into rough waters on Aug. 15 so the bishop could say a blessing andthrow a ring of flowers into the water as part of the annual Wedding of the Sea ceremony. The annual ritual celebrates the relationship between the seaport city andthe Atlantic Ocean. The Wedding of the Sea ceremony is also held at other shore parishes. See pages 10-11.

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Traversingrough waters

By Carl Peters

W im Wenders, the Germandirector of the documentary

“Pope Francis: A Man of

His Word,” counts among his influ-

ences the painter Andrew Wyeth, who

was born in nearby Chadds Ford,

Pennsylvania. In 1947, when the direc-

tor was just a toddler, Wyeth created

one of the most famous images in

America art, which he titled

“Christina’s World.” Loved by many

(and criticized by some as being too

sentimental), the painting depicts a

woman from behind lying in a field,

propped on her thin arms and looking

toward a farmhouse in the distance.

Viewers see an apparently healthy

young woman, yet the subject of the

painting, Christina Olson, was middle-

aged when Wyeth painted her and had

a degenerative muscle condition that

left her legs paralyzed by the time she

was in her early 30s. She refused to

use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl,

using her arms to drag her lower body.

In a letter to the Museum of Modern

Art in New York, where the picture

hangs, Wyeth explained, “If in some

small way I have been able in paint to

make the viewer sense that her world

may be limited physically but by no

means spiritually, then I have achieved

what I set out to do.”Wenders, the director who recently

tried to capture the essence of Pope

Francis on film, wrote of “Christina’s

World” that the artist “has really

‘seen’ her, ‘recognized’ her, and done

all he can to depict her in the glory of

her existence.” One has to only think of the count-

less photographs of the pope with peo-

ple suffering all manner of physical or

material infirmities to see why the

director was drawn to make a docu-

mentary about a world leader who sees

spiritual potential as more “real” than

physical limitations. Throughout the film, currently play-

ing in area theaters, the pope speaks to

groups and directly to the viewer about

God’s love and forgiveness; the value

and dignity of each individual; human

ability; and the need for political, eth-

nic and religious groups to work

together. The camera also captures

scenes from hospitals and slums in

developing nations, refugees on the

open sea, and the devastation of natu-

ral disasters. At one point, the pope

recalls speaking to an 8-year-old boy

only hours before he died of cancer.

Throughout, in both words and

images, the film presents the simple mes-

sage of Christian hope against the back-

drop of a harsh and complicated world.

In addition to being a film director,

Wenders is a renowned photographer,

and he has written admiringly of Peter

Lindbergh, a fashion photographer

who works with famous models like

Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and

Christy Turlington. “He turns those

goddesses into human beings without

taking any of their aura away!”

Wenders wrote in an essay on

Lindbergh. The secret, Wenders says, is his

smile. “Peter’s smile comes from deep

within, from a calm well beyond all

the agitation that might be associated

with ‘photography’ or even more, with

‘fashion.’ You look into his friendly

eyes and you might begin to under-

stand how this untroubled and unim-

pressed gaze manages to penetrate and

transform whatever’s in front of it.”

It may seem strange to compare a

pope and a fashion photographer in

any way, yet it’s worth noting that

“Pope Francis: A Man of His Word”

ends with the pope talking about the

importance of a sense of humor and a

smile. “A smile is a flower is a smile

of the heart,” he says. And visually the most striking aspect

of the film is not the images of the

pope greeting crowds, or meeting with

world leaders, or speaking to members

of the United Nations or Congress. It’s

not the pope’s image at all. It’s the

countless close-ups of the individuals

listening to him. It’s the refugees with

uncertain futures, the sick children and

their worried parents, the victims of

poverty, the convicts and all the others

who seem transformed — all finding

hope in the pope’s smile, and in his

assurance that God has not abandoned

them.

Carl Peters is the managing editor

of the Catholic Star Herald.

CNS photo/Vatican Media, handout

German filmmaker Wim Wenders is

pictured in this undated photo with

Pope Francis during the production of

his documentary film, “Pope Francis

— A Man of His Word.” The film was

compiled from four long sit-down ses-

sions with the pope and from clips of

the pope at the Vatican and abroad.

The shared vision of thepope and the film director

By Carl Peters

The church is eternal; popes andbishops come and go. WilliamJ. Murray has been somewhere

in the middle.Murray, 66, is retiring today, Aug.

31, for, he says, afternoons of “bon-bons and soap operas,” but he’s beenboth a steady presence and an influen-tial figure in the Diocese of Camdenfor more than 37 years.

For more than three decades he’shad his finger on the pulse of the dio-cese as its chief financial officer, aposition that demands balancing evan-gelical zeal with real world practicali-ties, Christian charity with limitedresources, and lofty ideals with hardnumbers. For Murray, that didn’t meanhis job was to put limits on ministry.Instead, it meant using his financialskills, determination and foresight toaccomplish as much as humanly possi-ble.

With a master’s degree in businessadministration from Saint Joseph’sUniversity, Philadelphia, Murray washired by the diocese in 1981 as assis-tant director of long term care, and afew years later was named director ofreal estate and housing (and giveninstructions to find out how he wouldgo about getting a real estate license).

Bishop George H. Guilfoyle wasordinary and Auxiliary Bishop JamesL. Schad was vicar general at the time,and soon they needed a secretary foradministration — essentially a CFOfor the diocese. When they learned thatMurray had been offered the same

position in another diocese, BishopSchad told Murray they’d talk about itwhen he returned from his vacation.The talking-about-it amounted toBishop Guilfoyle sticking his head intoMurray’s office one day and saying,“That job Bishop Schad talked to youabout? You have it. Congratulations.”

So Murray — who since 1980 hasbeen married to the same woman,lived in the same house and belongedto the same parish — has held thesame job since 1987.

Superficially, it might appear thatthe biggest change in his career hasbeen when the diocesan offices wererelocated and his office moved twomiles from the southern edge Camdento the city’s business district. After all,over the years his job has consisted ofmeetings, meetings and more meet-ings. (“The job is mostly meetings,” hesaid. The rest of it, he added, is prepar-ing for meetings.)

Yet the Camden Diocese he’s retir-ing from is not the one he started hiscareer at, and working on an ever-changing landscape means his job hasnever been routine.

Consider: Today the six counties ofthe Diocese of Camden include475,000 Catholics, but the year he washired, 1981, there were less than350,000. On the other hand, while thenumber of permanent deacons hasnearly doubled, the total number ofpriests in the diocese has shrunk from418 to 249, and the total number ofreligious sisters from 583 to 220.Correspondingly, today there are 65parishes, about half of what there once

were, and there are also fewer schoolsand students.

The trend in corporate America hasbeen to broaden a CFO’s responsibili-ty, from mostly monitoring a compa-ny’s finances to more data analysisand, increasingly, taking on an adviso-ry and policy-making role. Murray’sposition in the diocese has alsoevolved in that direction. The issuethat once defined his job — “Can theyafford it?” — often became, “We needto do it. How do we make it work?”Or, “Is it worth taking a chance on thisprogram? Is it worth going into debtfor?”

Murray’s expanded role came atwhat became some of the most chal-lenging times in his career: WhenBishop Joseph Galante initiated awidespread merger process for theparishes in 2007 and — what caused

Murray even more sleepless nightsalthough it was accomplished muchmore quickly — when the diocesanworkforce had to be reduced.

All of that, of course, coincided withthe 2008 market crash.

“It was a particularly stressful time,”Murray said.

Those who have worked withMurray tend to comment on both hisprofessional abilities and personalqualities, as if the two were insepara-ble.

Joe DiFilippo, the Finance Councilchair, described Murray as “one of thefinest Christian men I know,’ as wellas “the epitome and master of his roleas the ‘Gate Keeper’ for this diocese'sfinancial matters.”

Msgr. Roger E. McGrath, whoworked with Murray extensively in hisprevious role as vicar general,expressed the same sentiments.

“Bill has the amazing capacity topull together the complexity of anissue, even the most difficult, with fullattention to its pertinent details anddevelopmental history. Furthermore,he combines this comprehensive con-tribution of financial analysis andecclesial management with a ‘hands-on’ pastoral sensitivity to the missionof the Church to spread the Gospel ofChrist,” said Msgr. McGrath, currentlypastor of Saints Peter and Paul Parish,Turnersville.

“Above all,” he added, “Bill is theepitome of the Catholic Gentleman,more than a model of Christian serv-ice, he is truly an inspiration.”

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WILLIAM J. MURRAY

Longtime diocesan CFO William J. Murray retires

By Michael M. Canaris

Holy Angels Parish inWoodbury hosts an AmericanSign Language Inclusion Mass

on the first Sunday evening of eachmonth. I recently attended one cele-brated by Father Hugh Bradley andfound it a profoundly moving experi-ence.

Two moments in particular stuck outto me. The first was after the homily,when in place of the Nicene Creed, thecongregation renewed our baptismalvows as a community. Watching themen and women who were hearing-impaired respond so vibrantly to thequestions posed about our Christianidentity as a united people with notonly their hands, but almost theirentire bodies, was quite beautiful tome. I know virtually nothing aboutASL, but since we are embodied spir-its, the depth of their assertion of theirfaith was abundantly clear in theirphysical reaction and motions.

It was far different than the mum-bling monotonous recitation that toooften occurs at Sunday liturgies. Therewas something entirely fresh and pas-sionate, and somehow perhaps evenslightly defiant — if I may be so bold— in the thirst for and commitment to

inclusion that was evident in thismoment. It was as if they were pro-claiming their faith at the tops of theirlungs in silence, and that image willremain seared into my imagination forquite some time.

The second was at the end of Mass,when Father Bradley explained a fewsimple phrases for those of us whohave not studied ASL. The sign for thename of Jesus is easily learned: the tipof the middle finger touching the otherhand’s palm and then the same actionin reverse. It’s clear then that everytime a deaf person uses the name ofJesus in this language, he or she callsto mind the Passion, when his handswere pierced on the cross. That is

wonderfully straightforward and yetcomplex, as is so much of our faith.

In Mark’s Gospel, when Jesus visitsDecapolis, he heals a man who hashearing and speaking impediments,laying hands upon his ears and spittleupon his tongue (Mk 7:31-37). As inother places in the Scriptures, Christnot only “sighs” in genuine compas-sion for the suffering and limitations ofhumanity, but then speaks forcefullyinto the gap between divine plenitudeand human finitude (“Lazarus, comeforth!”; “Talitha koum!”). In a sign ofthe life-giving grace that he manifestson earth, he instructs the man, and thusall of us who are ourselves deaf in somany ways, to the abundant love of

God and the cries of the desperate:“Be opened!” And in response the manis healed in body, but more important-ly in soul.

I am consistently amazed by sub-merging into the depths of Catholicismand the local currents that flow power-fully beneath the sometimes too-famil-iar tranquil horizon of our ecclesialseas. There are local contexts andcommunities, adaptations and min-istries, of which the vast majority ofChristians know very little. A lifetimeis not enough to learn them all.Oftentimes, all it takes is some inten-tionality to be aware of what is goingon around us to appreciate them.

I felt blessed to stumble into anentirely unexpected one in this case,and to find the restorative presence ofGod where I was not anticipating it,and to hear his thunderous voiceresoundingly, albeit without spokenwords.

Ed. note: ASL/voice interpretedMass, with autism singers and inter-preters, is celebrated every FirstSunday at 6 p.m., from September –May. (There will be no 6 p.m. MassEaster Sunday.)

Originally from Collingswood,Michael M. Canaris, Ph.D., teaches atLoyola University, Chicago.

It was as if they were proclaiming their faith

at the tops of their lungs in silence.

God’s thunderous voice in a quiet room

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By Carl Peters

Although usually quite shy, Dr.

Oliver Sacks was so enchanted

by a lunar eclipse one night

that he stopped people on the street

and pressed his small telescope into

their hands. “Look! Look what’s hap-

pening to the moon!” he exclaimed to

each one.

A physician and writer, Sacks had an

enthusiasm for telling people about

what he found wondrous, and that

included the ministry of women reli-

gious he knew, the Little Sisters of the

Poor. The community had its beginning in

France in 1839 when Saint Jeanne

Jugan brought an old blind woman out

of the cold and into her own small

apartment to care for her. The congre-

gation currently has 27 homes for

needy elderly persons in the United

States.Sacks saw residents at the Little

Sisters’ homes for 40 years. When

Robin Williams was preparing to por-

tray a character based on Sacks for the

1990 film “Awakenings,” he wanted to

accompany the doctor when he saw

patients. The first place they went to

was a facility run by the nuns.

(The doctor had a second Hollywood

incarnation in 2001. The character

played by Bill Murray in Wes

Anderson’s “The Royal Tennenbaums”

was inspired by Sacks.)

Sacks became perhaps the only

famous neurologist in America when

his books started attracting a popular

audience, beginning in 1985 with “The

Man who Mistook His Wife for a

Hat.” The book is a collection of

essays based on individuals with neu-

rological abnormalities. The title came

from Dr. P., a musician with visual

agnosia: while his eyesight was fine,

his brain could not recognize anything

he saw. He could not distinguish, say,

a parking meter from a small child

and, yes, he once confused his wife’s

head with his own hat.

Sacks was a gifted storyteller and his

tales of individuals with unusual, even

bizarre, conditions convey sympathy

and respect, even admiration, for his

patients.

“Well, in medicine, I think the per-

son can be replaced by the CAT scan

and the EEG, which reduces the per-

son to an object, and it reduces the

physician to a technician, and I think,

I think this is a great ever-present

danger in medicine,” he said in a

1995 television interview.

In his autobiography, “On the

Move,” he complained of nursing

homes where he saw “the complete

subjugation of the human to medical

arrogance and technology.”

“That those who entered such nurs-

ing homes needed meaning — a life,

an identity, dignity, self-respect, a

degree of autonomy — was ignored or

bypassed; ‘care’ was purely mechani-

cal and medical,” he wrote. But, he

continued, he found the exact opposite

at facilities run by the Little Sisters.

“Their homes are about life — living

the fullest, most meaningful life possi-

ble given their residents’ limitations

and needs,” he said.

The doctor’s comments on the

women religious he knew are worth

repeating at this time, as the church

prepares to celebrate World Day of the

Sick on Feb. 11 and because the

church has just observed World Day of

Prayer for Consecrated Life on Feb. 2.

Most Catholics would quickly assert

that his evaluation of the sisters’ pro-

fessionalism and dedication is true of

all women and men religious working

in health care, and also true of those in

other ministries, such as education and

social services.

Sacks was not a Catholic. Raised in

an Orthodox Jewish home, his

teenage religious doubts were com-

pounded by his mother’s initial reac-

tion upon learning he was gay — she

cursed him as an “abomination,” an

allusion to the prohibitions against

homosexual activity in Leviticus. In

old age, he said he longed to believe

in God but could not. His last piece

of writing, published only two weeks

before his death from cancer, was

“Sabbath,” a wistful reflection on his

family’s observance of the day of

rest.While Sacks did not consider him-

self religious, he recognized the cen-

trality of faith in the ministry of the

nuns. There is no “preachiness, no evan-

gelism, no religious pressure of any

sort” in their homes, and not all resi-

dents are believers, he observed. But,

he added, “there is a great religious

devotion among the sisters, and it is

difficult to imagine such a level of care

without such deep dedication.”

“The Little Sisters inspire me,” he

said.

Carl Peters is the Catholic Star

Herald managing editor.

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Diocesan offices win 16 CPA awardsThe Catholic Star Herald and the Camden Diocesan Office of Communications combined for 16 Catholic Press Association awards, presented during

the Catholic Media Conference held June 18-21 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Below is a breakdown of the winning entries.

Best Single AdOriginating withthe Publication -Black-and-WhiteSecond Place Catholic Star HeraldTom O’Shea,ProductionCoordinator& Graphic Designer,Yasgur EyeAssociates

Best Reporting onVocations toPriesthood,Religious Life orDiaconate - Non-Weekly DiocesanNewspaper,Circulation 25,001or MoreSecond Place Catholic Star HeraldPeter G. Sánchez,Staff Writer and Social Media Coordinator and Carl Peters, Managing Editor,Priestly Vocations in Challenging Times

Best Personality Profile - Non-WeeklyDiocesan Newspaper, Circulation

25,001 or More

Second Place Catholic Star Herald

Mary Beth Peabody,Marketing &

Communications forthe Diocesan Office of

Catholic Schools,Mr. Bernie

Third Place Catholic Star Herald

Carl Peters,Managing Editor,

Longtime DiocesanCFO

Best AdCopywriting

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Coordinator& Graphic Designer,

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Catholic Star Herald, Tom O’Shea, ProductionCoordinator & Graphic Designer,

Wedding of the Sea

By Carl Peters

A s a novelist, Charles Dickensowns Christmas, with hisuplifting story of Ebenezer

Scrooge and the three spirits whorenew his soul in one night. But thisyear — when only a few months agochildren were being separated fromtheir parents at the Mexico-UnitedStates border — is an appropriate time

to read a Christmas story by anothergiant of world literature: the writerPope Francis has referred to as “thegreat Dostoevsky.”“The Heavenly Christmas Tree” is a

darker tale than Dickens’ “AChristmas Carol” and its young, name-

less protagonist has even more severe

troubles than Tiny Tim. But the story

includes a vision inspired by theGospel that serves as a reminder that,

although society may see the poor and

their children as problems, they arebeloved by God.Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) was a

Russian novelist best known for works

such as “Notes From theUnderground” and “Crime andPunishment,” yet “The HeavenlyChristmas Tree” is a short piece, avail-

able on the internet, that can be read in

10 minutes. In it the author exploresone of the themes he deals with atgreater length in his masterpiece “The

Brothers Karamazov.”At the center of that 1,000-pagenovel, Ivan Karamazov dismisses God

by talking about the suffering of theinnocent, enumerating in detail horrific

cases — based on actual incidents —of young children being mistreated,abused and killed. Then Ivan asks his

saintly brother Alyosha the questionthat has always troubled people offaith: Would you create a world where

such atrocities happen? “‘No, I would not,’ Alosha saidsoftly.”

The younger brother’s onlyresponse, finally, is not to debate hisintellectual brother but to talk aboutChrist’s sacrifice and forgiveness.

Shortly before his death, Dostoevsky

wrote in his diary that it is “not like a

child that I believe in Christ and con-

fess him. My hosanna has come forth

from the crucible of doubt.”Dostoevsky’s own mother died when

he was a teenager, and his alcoholicand abusive father was murdered byhis own serfs a couple of years later.As a political prisoner he was subject

to a mock execution and served a term

of hard labor in Siberia. He had con-stant financial worries, made worse by

a gambling problem, and he sufferedfrom epilepsy. His first-borne child,Sonya, died when she was only threemonths old.The little boy, “6 years old or even

younger,” of “A Heavenly Christmas

Tree” dies cold, hungry and alone after

the death of his poor mother — while

nearby children of affluent families are

enjoying their holiday festivities. But

near death, he hears his mothersinging, and then he hears a soft voice

whispering, “Come to my Christmastree, little one.” The subsequent scene

calls to mind both the Beatitudes andMatthew 19:14 (Jesus saying, “Let the

children come to me.”)It is a scene for any parent who has

lost a child for any reason: sickness, an

accident, abortion. Or whose child at

any age has been, either literally orfiguratively, lost. But “The Heavenly Christmas Tree”

ends not with a beatific vision but with

a porter finding the frozen body of the

dead child, a reminder that Christianhope is no excuse for ignoringChristian responsibility. Dorothy Day was a great admirer of

Dostoevsky and reportedly one of her

favorite quotes was spoken byZossima, a holy man in “The Brothers

Karamozov”: “Love in action is aharsh and dreadful thing compared to

love in dreams.” As many people of good will — cer-

tainly people at the U.S.-Mexico bor-

der — know full well, the hard workof “love in action” is needed all yearlong, not just at Christmas. It is often

forged in a crucible of doubt. Carl Peters is the managing editor

of the Catholic Star Herald.

A different story appropriate for Christmas this year

CNS photo/Edgard Garrido, Reuters

Children cry next to their mother after

a caravan of Honduran migrants try-

ing to reach the U.S. stormed a bor-

der checkpoint Oct. 19 in Ciudad

Hidalgo, Mexico.

Best Regular Column - Culture, theArts and Leisure

Third Place Catholic Star Herald

Carl Peters, Managing Editor,Commentary

Best Photograph - Portrait First Place

Catholic Star HeraldAlan M. Dumoff, Freelance Photographer,

Wise man

Best HeadlineHonorable Mention Catholic Star Herald

Carl Peters, Managing Editor,God’s Thunderous Voice in a Quiet Room

Best Use of Photosin Social Media

First Place Diocese of Camden

Office of CommunicationsMike Walsh,

Wedding of the Sea & Blue Mass

Best Initiative orCampaign – Package

Honorable Mention Diocese of Camden

Office of Communications,Mary McCusker,Share the Journey

Campaign

BestDiocesanPastoralMessage -LetterThird Place Diocese ofCamden, Bishop DennisJ. Sullivan,Letter from Bishop Sullivan to thePeople of the Diocese ofCamden Regarding the Releaseof the Pennsylvania Grand JuryReport

Best PodcastProgram Second Place Diocese ofCamden Office ofCommunicationsPeter G. Sánchez, Catholic Star Herald Staff Writerand Social Media Coordinatorand Laurie Power, Director ofEvangelization and Discipleship atChrist the RedeemerAtco, New JerseyTalking Saints

Best Photograph -General NewsPhotoHonorable Mention Catholic Star HeraldMike Walsh,Director of theDiocesan Office ofCommunications,Traversing RoughWaters