As you already know, the Archdiocese of Newark has decided to permanently shutter ten schools at the end of this school year.  Among these schools is our beloved Trinity Academy, formerly St. Aloysius Catholic School.   

The global COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our lives in many ways.  As adults, we are able to understand the rationale behind the extreme measures that have been taken to protect our communities, but children cannot. They are young, innocent, and scared. Our children are not scared of the virus, but scared they will never see their teachers, friends, or classrooms again. During a time when our whole world is in a continuous state of uncertainty and instability, we have few things we rely on: Family, friends, and our faith. Our community of faith has been ripped away from us and our children.

Our children cannot fully comprehend why their school, their center of faith and education, has been so abruptly removed from their lives.  They have been forced to conform to remote learning, and continue this way with no end in sight. Now, that center of faith and learning is closing its doors to our children permanently and these children and their teachers will never return to walk the halls of Trinity Academy again. Our children, attending Pre-K3 through 8th Grade, are being forced to feel the emotional and psychological impacts of not only being separated from classmates and teachers for months, but they now face the permanent loss of stability and security of their school, at a time when they need it the most. 

The Archdiocese of Newark, headed by Cardinal Tobin, Reverend Monsignor Thomas Nyddegger, and Acting Superintendent of Schools, Barbara Dolan, made the unfortunate decision, amid worldwide turmoil, to shatter what was left of our children’s security and permanently close down our beloved Trinity Academy, devastating our children and our community. 

Trinity Academy is our children’s home away from home, a beacon of light and love for every family in the history of our community. To us, Trinity is FAMILY. Our children see their teachers they love as their mentors, as their safe guidance through these troubling times. We are now being forced apart and forced to separate children from their educators, their stability, and most importantly, from their faith. I implore you now to speak up for us, for our children, for our Trinity Academy family. 

During an emergency pandemic and state-wide shutdown, please tell the Archdiocese this is NOT the time to displace children and declare permanent closures. Tell them that we love Trinity Academy and will fight to keep it open.  We will fight to ensure our children have the ability to maintain continuity and consistency.  This is our number one priority. We will stand together to keep what we love and fight to continue to provide the best faith-based education to our children. We implore you, Cardinal Tobin, give us the opportunity to save our school!  

And we ask you, the families, parents, students, faculty, parishioners, neighbors, and friends, please write to Cardinal Tobin and demand that we be given the chance we so rightfully deserve.

Letters can be sent to:

Joseph William Cardinal Tobin, CSsR, DD

P.O. BOX 9500

NEWARK, NJ 07104

Our fight is not over. It has just begun. Pray for our children and that our Catholic leaders do the right thing and reconsider this devastating decision.

For more information, please visit our Facebook group - Save Trinity Academy