The annual diocesan Migration Day Mass this year honored the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who founded Catholic Migration Services in the Diocese of Brooklyn 41 years ago. Members of the 29 ethnic apostolates gathered at St. Joseph’s Church, Pacific St., Prospect Heights, on Sunday, April 22, for a liturgy with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. Many came […]
Nazareth Regional H.S., East Flatbush, will once again open its doors in September. This is the news for which the entire school community has been waiting since the announcement was made in February that it would close at the end of the academic year.
by Stephan Childs Whether piloting a program to provide the needy with care, serving as an ethnic community’s parish liaison, or helping facilitate a parish merger, service to the church assumes many forms. Recognizing that service (not to mention many other types), members of each one of Queens’ 47 parishes attended St. Nicholas of Tolentine […]
by Antonina Zielinska Hundreds of teens from Brooklyn and Queens gathered at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, for the diocese’s very own Youth Day. “Seeing all the different people here for the same reason made me think that I am not the only one who’s into this kind of stuff,” said 17-year-old Dana Reandelar, from […]
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – For Vatican historians, the roots of a Christian idea of religious liberty go way back: in fact, back 1,700 years to the Emperor Constantine’s victory on Rome’s Milvian Bridge and to his conversion. At a Vatican conference in late April marking the anniversary, the head of the Pontifical […]
Thirty-nine couples recently renewed their marriage vows at the Sunday noon Mass at St.Kevin’s Church, Flushing. The couples were celebrating anniversaries ranging from 25 years to 66 years of marriage. A reception for family and friends followed in the parish center.
by Father Kevin Abels, Diocesan Vocations Director I wanted to share with you wonderful news about the Called By Name Program that has been a blessing to our Diocese. The purpose of Called By Name is to encourage the people of our parishes to prayerfully submit names of men and women who they believe would […]
by Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – A document on the new evangelization from the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis exhorts Catholics to at all levels in the church to step up to invite Catholics who have stopped practicing their faith to do so once again. “Bishops, eparchs, pastors, catechists and indeed all Catholics […]
by Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Citing “serious doctrinal problems which affect many in consecrated life,” the Vatican announced a major reform of an association of women’s religious congregations in the U.S. to ensure their fidelity to Catholic teaching in areas including abortion, euthanasia, women’s ordination and homosexuality. Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of […]
IDUBLIN (CNS) – Ireland’s parliament rejected legislation that would have allowed a controversial 1992 Supreme Court ruling permitting abortion in limited circumstances to take effect. The Socialist Party motion was defeated 111-20, April 19. Following the 1992 court ruling – known as the X-case – abortion has been legal in circumstances where there is a […]
