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A 6th grader at Saint John’s Academy (SJA) in Hillsdale recently united her school community with mothers in need by launching a school-wide fundraiser for a local pregnancy resource center.

The Schools Office of the Archdiocese of Newark is hosting a Job Fair on Wednesday, June 14th from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. at the St. John Paul II Youth Retreat Center, 499 Belgrove Drive in Kearny, NJ.

The Laudato Si’ Action Platform, an initiative of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, is inspired by Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’. It equips the Church to achieve real and lasting solutions to the ecological crisis.

On May 21, Catholic school students and youth from across the state of New Jersey gathered for the annual Catholic Youth Rally at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson. The five New Jersey (arch)dioceses brought in 1,300 Catholic youth to attend this year’s rally.

Around the Archdiocese of Newark, Catholic school students have been honoring the Blessed Mother by participating in May Crowning rituals at their schools and local parishes.

In late April and throughout the month of May, parishes around the Archdiocese of Newark observed two joyful and significant moments in church life: the holy sacraments of First Communion and Confirmation.

Get Caught Reading Month is the perfect time for students and family members to explore the Catholic faith and Catechism through reading.   There are numerous resources available for Catholic reading that cover a wide range of topics related to the Catholic faith, spirituality, theology, and more.

Over Easter week, a group of 16 special needs youth from the Archdiocese of Newark took the journey of a lifetime – traveling 3,683 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to visit the Grotto of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes in Southern France. 

Catholic school students within the Archdiocese have been engaged in research projects and exhibitions that showcase the lives of various saints.

Some would call cursive writing a dying art as it is now only required in less than half of the public schools in the nation, according to the National Education Association. But Catholic schools are keeping it alive, along with good penmanship.

Now that Gov. Phil Murphy has passed the state budget onto the legislature, New Jersey Catholic leaders are calling upon residents to contact their legislators regarding the funding needs of nonpublic school students.

It was an experiential idea to give freshmen a hands-on learning experience in the 1970s — send students out on the Appalachian Trail for four days. The Trail, a Benedictine backpacking tradition established in 1973 at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and still going strong.