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Archdiocese of Newark

Seton Hall - ‘By faith, not by sight’

Seton Hall is pushing back on critics of its president. Will Catholics believe the university's claims?

JD Flynn
Feb 14, 2025
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When Msgr. Joseph Reilly was invested as president of Seton Hall University last November, Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin hung from the priest’s neck a medallion bearing the symbol of the university: Mary, the Mother of God, holding a cross, and standing a scroll inscribed with the Latin motto of the bishop who founded Seton Hall: “Per fidem non per speci…

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