General Notes
St. Paul Inside the Walls is the Catholic Center for Evangelization for the Diocese of Paterson. In addition to our own innovative outreach initiatives, we coordinate the diocesan offices of Catechesis, Family Life, Multi-cultural Ministry, Migrant Ministry, RCIA, Youth Ministry, Campus Ministry, Young Adult Ministry, Worship and the Permanent Diaconate. We also regularly welcome other diocesan departments and parishes to use our meeting spaces.  
St. Paul’s has a small but highly motivated staff. We are able to accomplish all we do by automating as much as we can (marketing, event registrations, payments, etc.)

Things we rarely do

• Unsolicited programs proposed by non-diocesan/parish staff: We receive good program ideas from countless individuals, and many people offer to teach courses or facilitate programs at St. Paul’s. By the time the St. Paul’s staff schedules all of our innovative outreach events, evangelization office events, and other diocesan/parish events, there is little time and space left in our calendar for other events. Additionally, St. Paul’s acts under the auspices of the bishop, and each presenter must therefore be highly qualified (i.e., advanced degree, mandatum, etc.).

• Infant baptisms
• Weddings
• Funerals
• Non-diocesan event rentals

• Events run at St. Paul’s without our staff present
• Retreat rentals: We do not rent our space out for retreats because we are not equipped to do so, and because of the many great retreat centers in close proximity to us:
  • The Loyola Retreat House: https://www.loyola.org/
  • The Shrine of St. Joseph: https://www.shrineofsaintjoseph.com/
  • Villa Pauline: https://scceast.org/villa

• Planning Season (January – April): Proposed events are posted by the St. Paul’s staff on the shared digital calendar. Events proposed by non-staff members should be submitted to Brian Honsberger using the digital form below. 
  • Non-staff members can submit program proposals at any time of the year, but the proposals will not be reviewed until the next planning season (January – April).
• Cabinet Review (April – May): A select number of evangelization staff members review all proposed events at this time, ensuring their catholicity, weighing their potential for moving people into deeper discipleship with Jesus, and calendar availabilities. The schedule of programs is then sent to the bishop for final approval.
• Marketing Season (May – August): Our communications, social media, and office staff post all approved events on our website; develop brochures, flyers, posters; and pre-schedule social media postings and broadest emails in this time period.
• Event Season (September – May): Our events tend to follow the academic calendar, including holiday breaks.

Days and Hours
Our staff works on some Saturdays and all Sundays, so we take Thursdays as a day of rest. We are therefore closed on Thursdays. We host events during the workday (9am – 5pm) on Mon., Tues., Wed. and Fri., and we also host Saturday morning events twice per month. We host evening events only on Tues. and Wed., from 7:30 – 9pm and cannot accommodate event requests for Sun., Mon., Thurs., Fri. or Sat. nights.