my son is in St Mary's(GC) and when Annunciation closed 3 boys came over to our school and a few more to surrounding catholic schools; but most went to the public schools.The Bishop may be a good man; but he is making a horrible mistake and this will go down in history as one of the churches biggest mistakes.
He is capable of making mistakes just like the Bishops did with moving or hiding the priest who molested the children

It's refreshing to see a Priest with the integrity to stand up for what is right. It's quite depressing to watch a bishop indulge his greedy desires, supposedly in the name of God, and to watch so many Priests stand by silently for fear of retribution. I understand that our Holy Priests have so much to lose if they stand up for what is right, but where is their faith that God will reward them? Thank you, Father Romanowski, for being a true servant of God.

I fully support the Bishop. He is a man of great piety, who has taken on a task that has to be done. The personal attacks upon him are a poor reflection of our faith to the rest of the people of South Jersey. Fr. Romanowski made a promise of obedience upon his ordination. I hope he keeps his promise. I hope the people of St. Mary's in Malaga can mourn their loss and move on. The people of your neighboring parishes will welcome you. You may be surprised at the experience of becoming a new parish with these neighbors of yours. They also love Jesus, the Mass, rosary and all of those other elements of our faith. Easter followed Good Friday, even for those who doubted.

I totally agree, i think any bishop that spends his time trying to close churches is nothing but true evil, with so -so many things going on in the world and this is the best project or issue that he can come up with to do, are you kidding me!!!! bishop you should be a shamed of yourself, so many more things in this world that you could be doing to make it a better place , but what do you do, you aqre all for yourself , i can not believe that you are doing what you are doing why? why? why can you not be a true man of god and say why you are trying to close such beautiful parishes? just once step down from your high (*whatever you call yourself) and please really tell us all why you are doing this?????????? do you know that you are taking away beautiful things you are making no sense, do good not evil try, just be a good man and admit that you are making a terrible mistake, it truly takes a true man of god to admit anything you do wrong, we would truly respect you and understand you if you would just try to make some sense and leave the church alone, question ???? DO YOU HAVE NO FAITH? DO YOU KNOW THAT THE CHURCHeS ALWAYS PROVIDE? THEIR HAD ALWAYS BEEN PRIEST , JESUS HAD 12 MEN, HE COULD HAD THOUSANDS, MILLIONS WHY????? YOU THINK BIGGER IS BETTER??? TELL ME WHY DO YOU THINK PARENTS PUT THEIR CHILDREN IN PRIVATE OR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ??? BECAUSE OF THE RATIO, AMOUNT THE SIZE, I LOVE A PARISH AND A SCHOOL THAT HAS ONLY A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF PEOPLE OR STUDENTS THIS IS FAMILY WAYS, YOU PICTURE THIS***** GREAT BIG CHURCH WITH THOuSAND OR MORE PEOPLE PEAS IN PODS YOU COME IN WOW LOTS OF PEOPLE BIGGER BASKETS WITH MONEY OVER FLOWING HMMMMMM I KNOW FAMILY LOVE FAMILY SETTINGS YOU ARE TRULY MASKING THE BIGGEST MISTAKE FOR THE CATHOLIC FAMILIES MAY GOD HELP YOU BISHOP GALANTE I WOULD NEVER WANT TO BE IN YOUR SHOES YOU ARE TRULY NO ROLE MODEL FOR MY CHILDREN NOT IN A MILLION YEARS YOU ARE DESTROYING THE CATHOLIC FAMILY, THING AND JUST THINK PLEASE FOR THE CATHOLIC FAITH LEAve all the ALL THE BEAUTIFUL PARISHES ALONE THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR YEARS AND WILL ALWAYS STAND STRONG, SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM LET IT BE!!!!!!!!!!!

I have to agree Galante is destorying the church in South Jersey. He is nothing more then a pawn. There were so many better qualified bishops then he was. I cant wait to the church recieves a new bishop in this diocese. At St. Mary's he transfers the incompetant associate pastor that we had and made him a pastor somewhere and has left Monsignor to tend to the parish all by himself. Monsignor would never complain but lets get real the guy almost died a few years ago and the bishop still has not appointed a new associate pastor. Galante's a joke, I wish you could recall bishops like you can politicians.