Romero Center Ministries
Based in Camden, NJ, Romero Center Ministries provides Catholic education and retreat experiences inspired by Saint Oscar Romero’s prophetic witness.
Each retreat reminds us that Jesus, the Word made flesh, surely dwells among us. It’s the miracle of Christmas every time! Each participant carries God's light, bursting with so much potential for so much good.
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