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This past year, five of our Catholic schools in the Diocese of Trenton were awarded the coveted National Blue Ribbon School recognition by the United States Department of Education. That is an amazing accomplishment and a source of pride not only for the individual schools themselves – administrators, faculty, staff, volunteers, parish priests, students and families – but for all of us committed to Catholic education. Our Catholic schools have been regularly among those singled out for this recognition but to have five in one academic year is truly awesome!

The Diocese of Trenton will be live-streaming multiple pro-life events that have been scheduled for the next several days locally and in Washington D.C.

The Monitor has released its annual Year in Review, the annual pull-out section that takes a look back at 2018, with a full round-up of the busy year that was in the Diocese, as well as reporting on some of the biggest national and international stories from last year.

Do you have experience working with and leading young adults in ministry? Come be a part of a team that supports parishes in their young adult ministry efforts and creates opportunities to engage those in their 20’s and 30’s in regional events. 

The Roman Catholic Bishops of New Jersey announced today their decision to retain Kenneth R. Feinberg and Camille Biros to design, implement and administer a statewide Victims Compensation Program for the submission, evaluation, and settlement of individual claims of sexual abuse of a minor. The Program would operate independently from any of the participating dioceses. The Administrators of the Program will have complete autonomy to determine eligibility of individual claims and the amount of compensation for victims who present a claim. This Program is intended to compensate eligible victims of child sexual abuse including those whose financial claims are legally barred by New Jersey's statute of limitations.

The Diocesan Chancery is seeking an energetic individual who works well within a team for the full-time position of Accounts Payable Coordinator.  The candidate will oversee the bill payment process for the Chancery. 

Faithful of the Diocese of Trenton will have the opportunity to stand for the sanctity of life alongside hundreds of thousands from around the world during the Jan. 18 March For Life in Washington, D.C.

In his annual respect life message, Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M. shares that we are to always bring “life to light.”

Lo he dicho antes y lo digo de nuevo. Hay una cosa que todos tenemos en común, mis hermanos y hermanas. Sin importar nuestra raza o lugar de origen natural; sin importar nuestra religión o la falta de ella; sin importar nuestra edad o estatus o lugar en la vida: Dios nos dio a nosotros el don de la vida que nuestras madres cargaban hasta el día de nuestro nacimiento. ¡Nos permitieron vivir!

I have said it before and I say it again. There is one thing we all have in common, my brothers and sisters. Regardless of our race or place of natural origin; regardless of our religion or absence of it; regardless of our age or status or station in life: God gave us the gift of life which our mothers carried until the day of our birth. We were allowed to live!

The Diocese of Trenton is seeking a qualified and experienced individual to serve as the part-time  Associate Director of Parish Counseling Services for 10-15 hours per week. This individual will be responsible for serving the Diocese of Trenton in the administration and coordination of a counseling services program for parishioners referred by parishes from throughout the four counties of the Diocese.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Jan. 8 a bill that doubles funding for security in nonpublic schools.

Dos primarias católicas fuertes y exitosas de la Diócesis de Trenton – ubicadas poco más de tres millas entre ellas – juntarán sus recursos y esfuerzos para hacerse una nuevamente establecida academia católica que se abrirá en septiembre del 2019. La Escuela San Aloysio en Jackson y la Escuela Santa Verónica en Howell arrancarán un proceso de unificación al fin de este año escolar para transformarse en la Academia Madre Seton, según los párrocos de las dos parroquias patrocinadoras.

In an announcement made on Monday night, two strong and successful Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Trenton will combine their resourced and efforts to become a newly-established Catholic Academy that will open its doors in September, 2019.

Two strong and successful Catholic elementary schools in the Diocese of Trenton – situated just over three miles apart – will pool their resources and efforts to become a newly-established Catholic Academy that will open its doors in September, 2019.

Faithful invited to participate in Respect Life events planned locally and in Washington; New clergy assignments announced

St. Catharine-St. Margaret Parish is seeking applications for a Bookkeeper/Finance & Payroll Assistant. This person would be responsible for providing support to the Finance Manager and Business Manager as well as facilitate the semi-monthly payroll and accounts payable functions.

More than 1,000 faithful from around the Diocese of Trenton gathered in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold Township, to welcome in Christmastide during the celebration of Midnight Mass by Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M. This was the first Christmas Vigil celebrated by Bishop O’Connell in St. Robert Bellarmine since the church’s formal elevation to the status of Co-Cathedral in 2017.

The following message from our Holy Father, Pope Francis, was released for World Day of Peace, which falls on January 1.

In my Christmas Message to the Diocese this year, I wrote “The whole world becomes different at Christmas.” Those are my words, yes, but they are not my idea. The prophet Isaiah —- 800 years before the birth of Christ —- expressed the idea this way, as we heard in our First Reading tonight, “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light.” Light makes the dark world “different.” It enables people to see. And what do we see at Christmas? “A child is born for us,” Isaiah explains, “A son is given us. Upon his shoulders dominion rests.” This is what we see; this is whom we see at Christmas. A Child. A Son. “They name him: Wonder Counselor, God-Hero, Father Forever, Prince of Peace.” It is the Child, the Son who shatters the darkness of this world and brings his light.