“Homeless man who looked like Jesus has died,” reads an unusual obituary on the website of Hoboken’s Failla-McKnight Funeral Home — but the wording may not strike Hoboken residents as unusual. For decades, Robert “Bobby” Helmeck could be seen strolling the streets or quietly resting on stoops around the mile-square city, easy to spot with his tall stature, long beard, and long coat.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and