Archdiocese of Newark Catholic school students celebrated the Catholic feast days with Masses, lessons on the lives of these saints, and learning about Catholic traditions from around the world.  

The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children (SFIC) raised $91,000 — which is $16,000 more than its target goal — to fund partial tuition assistance scholarships for underprivileged students attending Archdiocese of Newark Catholic schools during its first-ever Irish-American Leadership Breakfast on March 14 at the archdiocesan Pastoral Center in Newark

Two resources — the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese of Newark and the National Catholic Education Association — have compiled lists of resources for Catholic youth and their families to explore their faith during Lent through fasting, praying, and working on their relationship with God. 

Four students from the Academy of the Holy Angels (AHA) in Demarest recently spent a week at the Arizona-Mexico border meeting migrants and the volunteers who courageously try to help them. 

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that began on Ash Wednesday, this year on Feb. 22, and ends at sundown on Holy Thursday, April 6. It is a period of preparation to celebrate the Lord's Resurrection at Easter, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  

Students at Holy Trinity School in Westfield recently researched and recreated Catholic cathedrals from around the globe. The lesson on Catholic architecture is an annual tradition at Holy Trinity School designed to educate students about the history and architecture of Catholic cathedrals around the world.

Catholic school students from around the Archdiocese are donating their time and resources to local communities and volunteering at The Mercy House. Groups from three schools have held collection drives and an 8th-grade student from St. Agnes Parish collected dozens of donations as part of his confirmation program.

Msgr. Turro celebrated his 101st birthday on Jan. 26. He is the oldest and longest-serving priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, born in 1922 and ordained in 1948 at St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral in Newark before the construction of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart was completed.

Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church in Roseland welcomes all to venerate a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified by the Catholic Church, and to learn about 100 Eucharistic Miracles. March 4 –5, the church will host a first-class relic of the first millennial cause for sainthood and an International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles of the World created by Acutis before his death in 2006.