On September 20, 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator working for Spain, led the 1st expedition to circumnavigate the globe, via the Pacific Ocean, in search of valuable spices in the Moluccas.

NEW BRUNSWICK — “U.S. News & World Report,” the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has ranked The Children’s Hospital at Saint Peter’s University Hospital among the top 50 hospitals in the nation in neonatology in the new 2021-22 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings recently published online.

The Youth Partial Care (YPC) program operated by Catholic Charities, Diocese of Metuchen, resumed full services June 14, making YPC the first partial-care program in Middlesex County to resume the full range of in-person services following the COVID-19 outbreak.

On June 11, the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Father Robert G. Lynam, pastor, St. Augustine of Canterbury Parish, Kendall Park, presided at a blessing and dedication of a redwood tree and memorial stone in memory of Daniel Mark Anderl at the parish’s school.

ASBURY — On the eve of Father’s Day, four new fathers were ordained to the priesthood for the diocese at a shrine dedicated to the Blessed Mother.

The teenagers of today, otherwise known as Generation Z, are considered digital natives. They were born in the era of smartphones and are creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial. They are present in our Church.