The Diocese of Trenton has issued an alert after parish priests and other clergy members have reported a circulation of email and text scams which use the name of a pastor to solicit funds via a gift card or cash donations from parishioners.
All Saints Regional Catholic School in Manahawkin will move away from being a regional school and will re-open in July as St. Mary Academy under the administration of St. Mary's Parish in Barnegat.
Catholic Church officials in New Jersey have paid tens of millions of dollars to men and women who have accused priests and clergy of child sexual abuse in the last three decades.
Known as the highest award a Catholic youth can receive, there are 26 parishioners in the Diocese of Trenton who have received the St. Timothy Award for Excellence, with 21 of the students coming from the Jersey Shore.
The parents of a student at St. Mary of the Lakes School in Medford say their son was bullied for three years but couldn't sue because of an exemption for private religious schools.