The NJAOH will be marching in the Belmar St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 4th. Bill Young’s famous pre-parade gathering will be combined with Belmar Mayor Matt Dohterty’s event. This year’s gathering will be a brunch held at O’Nicchio located at 1000 Main St in Belmar. There will be music by the Bantry Boys. [...]
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The NJ State Board was a proud sponsor of the recent Catholic men for Jesus Christ held at St Raphael’s Church in Hamilton NJ. State Catholic Action John Keane was instrumental in the sponsorship of this event. State Organizer and Marshall Pat Jockel and Jim McNally manned a membership table and collected applications from many [...]
Read More»Middlesex Division 1, Col. D. B. Kelly Division of the Ancient Order Of Hibernian’s. Recently honored members at their 15th Annual Awards Dinner. Awards were given to Hibernian of the Year – Mons.John Gordon Division Chaplin, Irishwoman of The Year – Anna Mae O’Connor, Irish Flag Raiser of The Year – Ricky McMann and Irishman [...]
Read More»On February 22, 2012 which was Ash Wednesday the NJ AOH welcomed the new Officer Thomas McMeekin Jr. Memorial Division, Atlantic City, Division 1. The swearing in ceremony was presided by NJ AOH state VP Kevin Weldon. Msgr. William Hodge provided the faithful with spiritual guidance on this special day, on top of swearing in [...]
Read More»The Irish Echo honored a number of NJ AOH members including Mike Byrne of Essex 9 and Sean Hughes of Bergen 32. NJ AOH State President Sean Pender, National Director Jere Cole, 40 under 40 alumni Mike Breen of Bergen 32 also attended the reception at Rosie O’Grady’s Manhattan Club on February 23rd. Also, NJ [...]
Read More»In an endeavor to promote our organization to a younger age bracket, the State Board has been working on establishing relationships with local universities in order to form new Divisions at the universities. As of now we have a priest, Father Brian Page of Rutgers Newark/N.J.I.T. Newark. Father Brian is eager to bring forth the [...]
Read More»The U.S. Bishops issued a firm response this evening to the White House’s proposed “accommodation” to the HHS contraception mandate: “Rescission as the only complete solution.” The mission of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops remains unchanged: The president “has decided to retain HHS’s nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients,” the conference statement notes. [...]
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The NJAOH is one of the sponsors of the Catholic Men For Jesus Conference that will be held on Feb 25th, at Saint Raphel Holy Angels Parish (3500 South Broad St, Hamilton, NJ 08610). This event’s theme is “Champions of Faith” and will feature Bishop David O’Connell, Patrick Madrid (National Speaker/Author), Fr. Jonathan Morris (Priest & News Commentator), and Darrell Miller [...]
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The Irish Government has started a program to issue Irish Hertiage Certificates. The certificates are designed to be official recognition of your Irish hertiage. These certificates are something that are being sold and can be given as gifts. In order to purchase a certificate you must provide a link to an ancestor from Ireland and [...]
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