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Saint Joseph Regional High School partners annually with Covenant House, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and supportive services to youth facing homelessness. Each year the high school hosts the Sleep Out Program to educate students about the problem of youth homelessness. Students who participate are confronted with an unfortunate reality that at least 700,000 adolescent minors, and 4.2 million young people, experience yearly in the United States.

Today, the Archdiocese of Newark is expanding its protection of the faithful training programs to benefit approximately 60,500 public school children that attend faith formation programs within Bergen, Hudson, Union, and Essex counties. This is in addition to the 22,000 Catholic school students already served by the training program.

Two faculty members at Lacordaire Academy in Montclair recently answered the call to become lay associates with the Sisters of St. Dominic of Caldwell. Tawana Clarrett and Damaris Herrera of Lacordaire Academy made the commitment before a congregation of sisters and fellow associates during a special ceremony on Oct. 2.

Young Catholics who participated in the Synod are yearning for a Church they can actively engage in. This is the consensus of the Archdiocese’s Synod on Synodality Report. The report, available in seven languages, included contributions from students, youth, and young adults from around Hudson, Bergen, Essex, and Union counties.  The Archdiocese of Newark’s Office for Youth and Young Adult Ministry has begun developing and implementing plans to respond to the youth’s desire to be seen and heard in the Church.

The Archdiocese of Newark recently hosted a luncheon to introduce and celebrate eight unique teachers and parish employees from around the Archdiocese. These individuals are participants in the ECHO Graduate Service Program at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life, a School at UND that partners with Catholic dioceses, parishes, and schools to address pastoral challenges with theological depth and rigor.

New York City Comic Con organizers invited teachers from St. Benedict's Prep in Newark to host a panel about the benefits of incorporating "geek culture" in high school classrooms. About 60 professionals attended the panel — co-hosted with faculty and students from International High School in Prospect Heights — on Thursday, Oct. 6, titled "Case Studies: Building Multicultural Spaces in Schools Through the Power of Geek."

Recently, nine AHA students were commissioned as LEMs by Father David Milliken: Caterina Cardamone of Glen Rock, Raphaela Cárdenas of Clifton, Bianca Cifelli of Hillsdale, Dominique Dela Gente and Ella Oaten of Tenafly, Kathryn Fragola of Bergenfield, Katherine Gallagher of Wyckoff, Natalia Gonzalez of Paterson, and Autumn Morrissey of Saddle River. They can now serve communion at Mass and to the homebound.