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2 months ago | 
catholicspirit.com | Paul Peyton |Christina Leslie |David Karas
Sister Jean Amore, SMIC60 YearsI see all created things as reflecting God’s love. I form relationships with trees, rivers, plants, animals and humans. I talk to them and even embrace them. … I walked today giving thanks to God for the warmth of the sun and all that gives me life today,” said Sister Jean Amore.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Rui Yang |Alireza Karbalayghareh |Christina Leslie
AbstractHi-C is a chromosome conformation capture assay used to study 3D genome organization. The recent development of single-cell Hi-C technologies has further enabled the examination of 3D chromatin organization in individual cells, although these approaches often suffer from low-coverage libraries and data sparsity. Here we introduce HiC2Self, a self-supervised framework for denoising Hi-C contact maps that requires only low-coverage data as input.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
With a congregation dressed in gaily colored ethnic costumes and bearing symbols of their shared Catholic heritage, Our Lady of Peace Church was a significant image of our multicultural Catholic Church. Bishop James F. Checchio served as principal celebrant of the Oct. 13 Mass held in the North Brunswick church.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
Looking across a sea of blue-clad law enforcement personnel seated before him Oct. 30 in the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Metuchen, Bishop James F. Checchio spoke for the hundreds of indebted citizens also present, declaring, “It is a privilege and honor to gather here.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
Celebrating the day they chose to cleave together as husband and wife, forsaking all others, some 88 couples stood before family, friends and God to reaffirm their marriage vows during the annual diocesan Silver and Gold and Five Year Wedding Anniversaries Evening Prayer Service, held Oct. 20 in the Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Metuchen.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
catholicstarherald.org | Christina Leslie
To Martin Widmer, Veterans Day is not celebrated just on Nov. 11. The 18-year-old member of Mater Ecclesiae Parish, Berlin, makes it his mission to honor veterans year-round. “On both sides of my family, almost every male has been in the service,” Widmer said. “My mother was in the ROTC in college, and my dad was in the Marine Corps.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
A shower of blue confetti and happy cheering from the student body of St. James, Basking Ridge, filled the air at the announcement that the Catholic elementary school has been designated one of the nation’s Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence for 2024. St. James was chosen as one of 356 schools nationwide, 11 of them in New Jersey, to receive the designation as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence for 2024 from U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Cardona in a live broadcast announcement Sept. 23.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
Years of planning, toil and prayer came to a triumphant conclusion Sept. 21 as the Coptic Catholic community celebrated its new home in Perth Amboy. “This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice,” declared Bishop James F. Checchio at the Solemn Opening Liturgy of Jesus the King Coptic Catholic Church. The congregation, which had been worshipping in rented spaces around the state, now will call the former St. Mary Church on Center Street its permanent spiritual home.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
catholicspirit.com | Christina Leslie
Faith and fellowship were on the menu Sept. 17 as some 400 individuals crucial in the life and work of the Diocese of Metuchen gathered in The Imperia, Somerset, for the annual Pride in our Priests dinner sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
catholicstarherald.org | Christina Leslie
Saint Thomas Aquinas once said, “There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship.”Clergy and friends from throughout the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis were eager to share stories of the life and ministry of Bishop Joseph Williams, as well as their friendships, as they bid him a fond farewell from the Twin Cities to take up the mantle of coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Camden.
