Archdiocese of Newark Archives

Citing COVID-19 economic toll, Newark closing five schools, merging three

Aug 6, 2020

Citing the toll COVID-19 is taking on school enrollments and finances, the Archdiocese of Newark’s Office of Schools announced Aug. 4 that five elementary schools will not reopen this fall and three elementary schools will consolidate with nearby school communities.

By Catholic News Service

N.J. archdiocese launches online site for parish donations during crisis

Mar 25, 2020

Newark Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin has announced a Parishes in Need fundraising initiative specifically aimed at supporting continued outreach and archdiocesan parish communities during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Catholic News Service

We must ‘pour out our hearts in prayer’ amid pandemic, archbishop says

Mar 17, 2020

If all the people watching the livestream of the 11 a.m. Mass March 15 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore had been in the cathedral itself, it would have been filled to capacity.

By Christopher Gunty

Late Newark auxiliary recalled as ‘humble man’ who served God and country

Mar 5, 2020

The late Bishop Charles J. McDonnell, retired auxiliary bishop of Newark, who died Feb. 13 at age 91, is being remembered as a humble man who answered the call to serve God and country.

By Kelly Marsicano

Pope names auxiliary for San Diego, three auxiliaries for Newark

Feb 27, 2020

Pope Francis has appointed Father Ramon Bejarano, a priest of the Diocese of Stockton, California, to be an auxiliary bishop of San Diego. He also has named three New Jersey priests — Msgr. Gregory J. Studerus, Benedictine Father Elias R. Lorenzo and Father Michael A. Saporito — to be auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.

By Catholic News Service

New Jersey dioceses push victims’ fund deadline to Feb. 29

Feb 15, 2020

New Jersey’s Roman Catholic dioceses have given a two-week extension to childhood victims of sexual assault considering filing for compensation from a fund the Church set up, the account’s co-administrator said Friday.

By Associated Press