Results of an investigation issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James highlights both shortcomings and positive initiatives taken by the Diocese of Brooklyn in its handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations over the past 22 years. 

When Theresa Monforte-Caraballo was packing a school lunch for her grandson Joshua one day many years ago, she was surprised when he asked her to make two sandwiches instead of one. She complied with the request and made it a habit to double up on his lunch every day.

For more than half a century, Frances Rhymes has worshiped in the pews of St. Benedict the Moor Church. Since she converted to Catholicism at 32 years old, she has been an integral part of the parish, now combined with St. Bonaventure Church. 

There’s little doubt that in classrooms in Catholic schools around the Diocese of Brooklyn, the historic solar eclipse was still a topic of conversation on Tuesday, April 9. Like New Yorkers all over the city, local school children donned their special glasses and turned their eyes to the skies for the near-total eclipse Monday afternoon.

Parishioners of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii went back to church on Sunday, April 7, one week after billowing black smoke and fierce flames interrupted Easter Mass and displaced congregants indefinitely. Still, they had a familiar place nearby to worship — their sister congregation, All Saints Church, in East Williamsburg. 

Choirs from across the Diocese of Brooklyn will leave the familiar confines of their home parishes on Saturday, April 20, to unite in an ensemble representing the Catholic diversity of Brooklyn and Queens at the Diocesan Eucharistic Revival.