Saint Gerard Majella Roman Catholic Church
Saint Gerard Majella Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church in Paterson, NJ 07522. It is one of 170 churches in Paterson, and one of 4 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
Paterson, NJ, 07522Saint Gerard Majella Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 611 congregations of the Catholic family gather across New Jersey — 19,012 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
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The community around Saint Gerard Majella Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 40.3%
- Food Insecurity: 32.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 25.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 24.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.0%
- Child Poverty: 25.2% (12.1–38.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 19.8% (10.5–29.0%)
- Diabetes: 14.1%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.8%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.6%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.4% (5.9–16.8%)
- Unemployment: 7.5% (3.5–11.5%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Paterson city is served by 85 churches — about one congregation for every 1,857 residents.
Churches near Saint Gerard Majella Roman Catholic Church
- Life Changing Word Church International — 0.2 mi away in Haledon, NJ
- First Spiritualist Church of Totowa — 0.3 mi away
- German Seventh Day Adventist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Union Avenue Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- St. Marys Church — 0.5 mi away in paterson, NJ
- Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- BridgeHope Community Church — 0.6 mi away
- Cedar Cliff Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.6 mi away in Haledon, NJ
- Family Circle Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Trinity Church — 0.6 mi away in Prospect Park, NJ
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- Saint Paul's Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away in Prospect Park, NJ
- Saint Michael the Archangel Church — 1.1 mi away
- Our Lady of Victories Roman Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- Our Lady of Pompeii Roman Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away
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