Romero Center Ministries

Based in Camden, NJ, Romero Center Ministries provides Catholic education and retreat experiences inspired by Saint Oscar Romero’s prophetic witness.

To all the groups that joined us for the UC this Summer 2024: Thank you for sharing your gifts and talents with those you served.

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The Urban Challenge

The Urban Challenge is a unique educational and retreat opportunity that helps its participants gain an understanding of urban poverty, its causes, and the many issues that people living in these communities confront every day of their lives. Camden offers a heart-wrenching study of urban decay and its effects: a failing educational system, a lack of affordable housing, an absence of employment opportunities, homelessness, hunger, violence, and environmental injustice.

“The Urban Challenge forces you out of your comfort zone.  Anytime you do that, you grow as a person.  You also realize how important it is to actually serve people in need.  I believe that the program continuously changes and improves.  In the five times that I have come, the staff does a great job mixing it up.”

-Chaperone, Fordham Prep (NY)

We seek personal, communal, and societal transformation by living ministry as proclaimed in Christ’s Gospel.

“I can’t. You must. I’m yours. Show me the way”

-Saint Oscar Romero

We can’t do it without you

Romero Center Ministries relies on supporters like you to ensure that we remain a place that invites “actions on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world.” (U.S. Catholic Bishops, 1971).

All donations to Romero Center Ministries are fully tax-deductible.

You may also mail donations payable to Romero Center Ministries to:

St. Joseph Pro-Cathedral
Romero Center Ministries
2907 Federal Street
Camden, NJ 08105