Immaculate Conception Church

“He was the guy you wanted to sit down with. Everybody did,” Craig Dickson, one of Tierney’s best friends, said.

Mary Joy Morgan filed the lawsuit in Essex County Superior Court on Nov. 24, alleging that the Rev. William Dowd, then the pastor at Immaculate Conception, and Sisters Maria Michael and Alice Bernadette subjected her to sexual abuse and rape over a period of seven years, starting when she was 8 years old. 

The Community Outreach Program (COP) of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, which began in 2016, has brought food every day to first responders.

Clergy and parishioners are celebrating Holy Week on Zoom and YouTube, and dyeing Easter eggs at home, to "gather in His name" this year.

Worshippers after Mass at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, with ash on their foreheads, observing Ash Wednesday.

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news It is not your fault. That is what Danielle Polemeni wants survivors of childhood sexual abuse to know. Polemeni’s family belonged to St. Cassian in Upper Montclair in the 1980s. The church was the first assignment for Rev. Mich...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Six Catholic clergy members who had served in Montclair churches over the past 80 years are included on a list of clergy accused of sexual abuse released by the church on Wednesday, Feb. 13. The Archdiocese of Newark list included 63 clergy that had been “credibly” accused of sexual abuse. The rel...

By ROBIN WOODS For Montclair Local Locals interested in finding out more about local food sustainable communities, renewable energy and clean air and water found answers to many of their questions this past Saturday, Jan. 19, during the 4th Annual Northeast Earth Coalition (NEEC, neearth...

On Veteran’s Day, Ember presents a concert about the end of war, titled “Thriving Through the Years: Wisdom from the Foxhole.”

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news There are about 16 million people with refugee status worldwide, Maria Biancheri told an audience in Madonna Hall at Immaculate Conception Church on Wednesday evening. “What percentage do you think get through the vetting process?” she...