A MESSAGE FROM BISHOP DAVID M. O'CONNELL, C.M.
Catholic schools: Truth in advertising
Home is the first and primary school. Parents are the first and primary teachers. By the time children enter the doors of a school, substantial education and formation has already taken place. Children bring with them to school all that they have learned in the family home: language and basic vocabulary, behaviors and social skills, attitudes and values. READ MORE
A MESSAGE FROM DR. VINCENT DE PAUL SCHMIDT, SUPERINTENDENT
Giving thanks for the bright start of a new school year
At long last, we are poised to start a normal Catholic school year after two full years of unprecedented upheaval. But we have made good use of that time, and I am happy to say that our “new normal” finds us on an even stronger footing than what was seen prior to 2020.
Our schools have grown more in the last two years than perhaps in any recorded period in our 140 years of service to the children of the Diocese of Trenton. Pre-pandemic, of course, our schools didn’t look like our schools circa 1881, but in 2022 they have grown substantially compared to just a few years before. READ MORE