Today, NJCC issued an Action Alert regarding a number of bills, which will be heard on Monday, October 28, that would expand abortion access. Click HERE to take action in opposition of these harmful bills.
On Monday, October 21, 2024, NJCC Director of Education, Dr. George Corwell, testified in support of A4854, a bill which would modify the method of allocating State aid for providing auxiliary and remedial services to nonpublic school students. Click for full testimony.
Ms. Linda E. Groh, a high school theology teacher at St. Rose High School in Belmar, N.J., and Dr. Marla James, a high school journalism, history, government and politics, and English teacher at Union Catholic Regional High School (UC) in Scotch Plains, N.J., have been named co-winners of the New Jersey Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Award for 2024 in a competition sponsored by the NJ Council for American Private Education (NJCAPE). Click for more.
Following the news of the shooting at a political rally involving former President Donald Trump today, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops (USCCB) offered the following statement...
The New Jersey Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of New Jersey’s five Catholic Dioceses, is deeply troubled by the New Jersey Senate’s decision to “fast track” S3452, legislation that would mandate that all State-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, cover 100% of the cost for abortions. Additionally, the legislation authorizes non-physicians to perform abortions and prohibits malpractice insurers from penalizing medical professionals for providing abortions or gender affirming care on the basis the procedures are illegal in other states.
CAMDEN – Pope Francis announced at Noon today in Rome the appointment of Bishop Joseph A. Williams as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Camden. A coadjutor bishop is appointed to assist the diocesan bishop until his retirement.
Bishop Dennis Sullivan is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Maria Elena Hallion as the Executive Director of Catholic Charities of South Jersey. “I am pleased to welcome Dr. Hallion, who comes to the Diocese of Camden with an impressive and diverse background having spent years working in the field of higher education and social service, to lead our Catholic Charities into a new era.”
NJCC issued an Action Alert asking constituents to contact their State legislators and ask them to sponsor or co-sponsor Budget Modifications to increase funding for nonpublic school transportation and nursing services. Please take a moment to ensure our students get these much-needed services.
NJCC has issued an Action Alert asking constituents to contact Governor Murphy and ask for increases to Nonpublic School Nursing Services and nonpublic school transportation in his Fiscal Year 2025 State Budget. Click to take action now!
Governor Phil Murphy recently signed a proclamation designating the week of January 28 – February 3, 2024, as Catholic Schools' Week in New Jersey and acknowledging the contributions of Catholic schools to the public welfare of all New Jerseyans. The theme for this year’s Catholic Schools’ Week is “Catholic Schools: United in Faith and Community.”
Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., was released from the Cardiac Care Unit of Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome Jan. 9. He is expected to return to New Jersey later this week as planned with the priests of the Diocese who had been on pilgrimage. He will continue his recovery, along with rehabilitation, at home upon his return.
Bishop David M. O'Connell, C.M., was moved from intensive care to the Cardiac Care Unit of Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome Jan. 7, where he continues his recovery from surgery after suffering a heart attack days earlier.
BISHOP DAVID M. O'CONNELL, C.M., SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK ON THURSDAY JAN. 4, while in Rome just ahead of the start of the priest pilgrimage. He was taken to Santo Spirito hospital where he had surgery to open a completely closed artery. Msgr. Thomas N. Gervasio, Father Jean Felicien, Msgr. Sam Sirianni and Father Daniel Peirano have been with him in Rome this week, waiting for a group of priests from the Diocese to arrive for their pilgrimage Jan. 5. Bishop O'Connell is resting comfortably after a successful surgery. He asks that you keep him in your prayers as he recovers.
Warning against a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and ongoing conflicts elsewhere, Pope Francis has called for a day of fasting, penance and prayer for peace in the world Oct. 27. “War does not solve any problems, it only sows death and destruction. It increases hatred, multiplies revenge. War erases the future,” he said at the end of his general audience talk in St. Peter’s Square Oct. 18.
Lauren-Carmel Sirak, second-grade teacher at Our Lady of Sorrows School, Hamilton, was recognized Oct. 12 during the annual Catholic Schools Mass in St. Robert Bellarmine Co-Cathedral, Freehold, as the recipient of the New Jersey Nonpublic School Teacher of the Year Award for 2023.
In response to the continued tensions and violence that erupted into warfare between Gaza and Israel on October 7, Bishop David J. Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace, calls for prayers for peace in the Holy Land. Click to read the statement.
The Catholic Church recognizes October as Respect Life Month, when we consider more deeply why every human life is valuable and reflect on how to build a culture that protects life from conception to natural death. To help with the many emotions and challenges that are naturally a part of end-of-life, the NJCC has developed a two-part video series. The first video, which discusses the pastoral response to end-of-life issues, features Jennifer Ruggiero, secretary, Secretariat for Family and Pastoral Life for the Diocese of Metuchen. The second video, which features Charles C. Camosy, Ph.D., professor of medical humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine, focuses on physician-assisted suicide and the impact it has as it advances in our society. Click to watch the videos.
As people of both faith and reason, Catholics are called upon to bring truth to political life in a manner consistent with the mission of our Lord, a mission that He has called us to share. Too often, politics becomes a contest of powerful interests, partisan attacks, sound bites, and media hype. The Catholic Church calls for a different kind of political engagement, one shaped by the moral convictions of well-formed consciences and focused on the dignity of every human being, the pursuit of the common good, and the protection of the weak, marginalized, and vulnerable.