News Releases

Nearly every metric has shown an increase over last year’s campaign, including the total pledged ($5.5 million); the total paid ($5.3 million), and the 24,700 gifts. Additionally, this year there are 39 parishes which have reached their goals, compared to 30 parishes in 2023. With less than three months left before the end of the calendar year, the Development Department team is focused on meeting the ACA’s overall goal of $6.5 million. A mailing, featuring messages from Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., and local pastors, will go out this month to members of the Diocese who have not yet responded to the Appeal.

Catholic faithful and pro-life advocates from across the state will gather in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral Sept. 26 for the first statewide Mass for Life ahead of the NJ March for Life in Trenton. Thousands are expected to convene in the state’s capitol to pray at Mass, hear speeches at a rally and offer peaceful witness to the sanctity of unborn life while they march along a one-mile trek through the city.

The priest candidates are Rev. Mr. Wynne Kerridge, a native son of Dallas, Texas, who came to the Catholic faith while attending Princeton University, and Rev. Mr. Brian Meinders, who was born in Lindenwold and grew up in St. John the Baptist Parish in Allentown.  

In response to news released May 21, 2024 on the appointment of a Coadjutor Bishop for the Diocese of Camden, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., issued the following remarks:   “On behalf of the clergy, religious and lay faithful of the Diocese of Trenton, I write to express congratulations and prayerful good wishes to Bishop Dennis Sullivan and the faithful community of our neighboring Diocese of Camden upon the appointment by our Holy Father Pope Francis of the Most Rev. Joseph A. Williams, until now the Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Camden.”

Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M., will ordain 13 new deacons for service in the Diocese of Trenton during a Mass on Saturday, May 18 at 10 a.m. in St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral.