Called Out of the Basement to Higher Ground

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WHEN WE LAST visited the chapel in the former Bergen Mall in December, its future was uncertain. It wasn't clear whether the mall's much larger reincarnation as the Bergen Town Center would have room for it.

But Father Eugene Bettinger, the director of the Carmelite Chapel of St. Therese, has been wearing an "Ask me the good news" button for weeks now, and yesterday was the first day of Masses in the chapel's new location.

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Called Out of the Basement to Higher Ground

St. Therese has moved up in the world. It's no longer hidden in the basement, where it was reached by an escalator for 37 years. It's now on the mall's second level, in space that used to be occupied by...

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