Good riddance. It certainly doesn't help that they are evil bigots who fire teachers if they are gay or have an abortion or have children out of wedlock and other nonsense.
Quote:4 more N.J. Catholic schools just shut down forever. See the full list of recent closures.
It was a poignant but proud farewell to a Catholic high school that endured for exactly a century in Essex County.
It joins a growing list of Catholic schools across the country closing their doors, including at least three others this year in New Jersey. Most closed as enrollment declined and financial pressures mounted.
The three other Catholic schools in New Jersey that closed in June were: Aquinas Academy in Livingston; Visitation Academy in Paramus; and Immaculate Conception School in Spotswood.
More than 30 other Catholic schools have closed aince 2020 in New Jersey in a broader national trend that has vexed church officials and educators for years.
The all-girls Immaculate Conception High School in Lodi closed after 108 years in June 2023, three years after its most celebrated alum, “Snow White” actress Rachel Zegler, received her diploma.
There were 5,852 U.S. Catholic schools in operation during the 2024-25 academic year, down from 5,905 the prior year and approximately 11,000 in 1970, according to the National Catholic Education Association.
Nationwide, enrollment increased in 2022 for the first time in two decades, but has since leveled off.
Some schools that closed have found ways to continue under different setups. In some cases they have reopened as independent schools or charter schools.
https://www.nj.com/education/2025/07/4-m...sures.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
