Letters to the Editor
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Diocesan News Statement by The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, on the Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis: “Querida Amazonia”
The Holy Father’s Apostolic Exhortation, Querida Amazonia, or Beloved Amazon, is a sensitive document that vividly describes the cultural and ecological challenges of the Amazon. Read More
Diocesan News Queens Parish Remembers Fallen NYPD Detective
“Be a Brian.” It's a challenge that Leanne Simonsen posed to family, friends and NYPD gathered in Holy Child Jesus Church in Richmond Hill, Queens to remember her husband, Detective Brian Simonsen, who on Feb. 12, 2019 was shot and killed by friendly fire while responding to reports of an armed robbery at a neighboring T-Mobile store. Read More
Diocesan News Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Celebrates Feast Day With Diversity
The feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes was celebrated multicultural style with a Mass and candlelit procession on Feb. 11 at the namesake parish in Queens Village. Read More
Diocesan News Students at St. Matthias Just Dewey It at School Library
Looking for a book in the library? There’s an app for that, but it lacks the charm of an old-school card catalog.The library at St. Matthias Catholic Academy, Ridgewood, has one of those 'antiques', and students use it to look up books based on the Dewey Decimal System. Read More
Diocesan News Only in Print: When Freedom Rang In Central Brooklyn | February 15, 2020
As Black History Month is celebrated across the United States, local history buffs may be interested to know that one piece of that history lies largely unknown in central Brooklyn. Read More
Columns
We Are God’s Beloved
Pope Francis’ Inspiration For a Better Journalism
Flannery O’Connor And Friends, Revisited
Editorials
Filtering the Truth
Obituaries
Father Matthew J. Diamond
Mary Devine
Served the People Faithfully for Decades
Italian Missionary Made Home in Brooklyn
