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Statement from Cardinal Tobin Regarding Recent Mass Shootings

Parents,

 

I want you to know that we started our day today in solemnity as Sr. Sandy led us in prayer after offering words of care and kindness towards others and let us know that when troubled, call out to our Father. 

As one, we recited the Our Father during Morning Prayer and our children were asked to remember the children and teachers lost yesterday in our thoughts and prayers.

 

SRLA has closed and secured all entrances but the main door for students to enter the building.

Parents, please do not attempt to enter the building.

Please leave forgotten books, laptops, lunches etc. clearly marked with your student's name on the bench in our lobby.

 

Finally, your children participated in a full lock-down drill this afternoon as a refresher.

 

Thank you for your understanding and be well,

 

Principal Underwood

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Statement from Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin Regarding Recent Mass Shootings

The following is a statement from Cardinal Tobin regarding the recent mass shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo, and other communities across the country. You can also read his message on the Archdiocese's website here. Please share this statement with your communities.

The disciples of Jesus that form the Archdiocese of Newark join our hearts and prayers for the anguished families of Uvalde, Buffalo, and many other communities across this country, including Newark, the city in which I live and love. The slaughter of children and teachers yesterday in Texas, and the surge of violence in communities nationwide, cannot be easily explained but must not be dismissed as a perverse “new normal.”

Cynically short-sighted solutions that facilely propose turning schools, grocery stores, and shopping malls into armed camps must be rejected. This nation cannot flourish by permitting the unregulated sale of weapons designed to kill. There is no convincing argument to justify the sale or possession of automatic rifles, oversize magazines, folding stocks, and other weapons that are used in an ever-growing number of massacres.

New laws alone will not change hearts. We need civil conversations around all the forms of violence that are tolerated, even celebrated in our culture. The role of social media, especially its indiscriminate use by young people, needs to be questioned. We adults must examine how our speech and slogans and our resignation and apathy contribute to violent death and the disintegration of our communities.

There is much to do, but for now, let us recognize our connection with the grieving families and plead with God to heal their broken hearts.

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R.

Archbishop of Newark

ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK

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St. Rose of Lima Academy

Principal: Tina Underwood, Ed.S.
 
52 Short Hills Avenue
Short Hills, New Jersey 07078
 
Phone: 973-379-3973
Fax: 973-379-3722


 


 

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St. Rose of Lima Parish

Pastor: Father Larry Evans

50 Short Hills Ave
Short Hills, NJ 07078

Phone: 973-379-3912 
Fax: 973-379-6157 

Website: http://www.stroseshorthills.org