by Gail Donovan This is the second in a series of articles about the future of Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens. When Father Thomas Doyle arrived at St. Thomas Aquinas in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn in 2004, he found a parish school with dwindling enrollment housed in a building badly in need of […]
Christmas 2011 came to Bedford-Stuyvesant with a blast of joy as the congregation gathered on the mild, sunny, Sunday morning to celebrate the 90th birthday of the founding of St. Peter Claver parish. It was a standing-room only crowd of parishioners from the three church sites that make up the current parish of St. Martin […]
by Judith Sudilovsky QASR EL-YEHUD, West Bank (CNS) – With eight-year-old grandson Jamal in tow, Hajeh Mattar made her way across a wooden platform alongside the Jordan River. Her plan: to baptize him in the waters of the river at the traditional site of Jesus’ baptism. Jamal’s father, Awad, his mother, Manal, and his sister […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Parish children led the celebration of El Dia de Tres Reyes at St. Laurence Church, East New York, last Sunday morning. Traditionally celebrated on Jan. 6, the feast of the Epiphany commemorates the visit of the Three Kings, also known as Wise Men or Magi, to the Christ Child, whom they […]
The students at Immaculate Conception School, Jamaica Estates, celebrated the Epiphany with a procession of the Three Kings at the Gospel reading at their school Mass. Sixth graders David Achoute, Michaella Jimenez and Jandeija Wesh took the roles of the three kings.
by Antonina Zielinska In honor of its feast day, the mostly Hispanic community of Epiphany Church, Williamsburg, welcomed the Three Magi during a Mass and fiesta, Jan. 6. The Three Kings, portrayed by Robinson Roman, Victor Valdez, and Efrain Quiles, processed through the streets accompanied parishioners, servers and Father Manuel de Jesús Rodriguez, pastor of […]
St. Rose of Lima School, Rockaway Beach, celebrated the Feast of the Three Kings Jan. 6 during First Friday Mass. Pictured, from left, are Rico Campos, Jaysen Wilford, and Frank Moynihan.
by Kurt Jensen and Adam Shaw “The Devil Inside” (Paramount), so we’re told, is a film the Vatican doesn’t want you to see. If so, perhaps there’s a “Da Vinci Code”-like conspiracy afoot intended to save you 12 of your hard-earned, economic-downturn dollars. Those foolhardy enough to insist on wading through this cheap, inept piece […]
DOMREMY, France (CNS) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised his country’s patron, St. Joan of Arc, for helping “forge the national conscience.” “For the church, Joan is a saint. For the republic, she’s the incarnation of the finest French virtues, including a patriotism that consists of loving one’s homeland without resenting others,” the president said […]
Sisters Jean Philip Brady, C.S.J., and Miriam Anna Morgan, C.S.J., were honored for decades of dedicated service to Epiphany Church, Williamsburg, now part of St. Peter and Paul parish. Father Manuel de Jesus Rodriguez, pastor, led the community in thanking both sisters who came back to the parish to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany […]
