More than 1,100 people were formally greeted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio during two sessions of the Rite of Election March 9 held at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village. The participants, known as catechumens and candidates for the sacraments, are in the final weeks of their preparation to be baptized or to receive the sacraments […]
Father Matthew C. Flood, S.J., a Jesuit for 67 years and a priest for 53 years, died March 7 at Murray-Weigel Hall, the Bronx. He was 85. Born in the Bronx, he attended Xavier H.S., Manhattan, and entered the Society of Jesus at St. Andrew-on-Hudson in 1946. He attended Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md., and Bellarmine […]
Six juniors from Xaverian H.S. Bay Ridge, left their Brooklyn homes to better understand those who live in poverty just over the Hudson River. They traveled to Camden, N.J., to participate in the Romero Center’s Urban Challenge Program, a service-learning, immersion retreat experience. Raysean Marin, Michael Paparelli, Marvel Tranquille, Francois Naaman, Patrick Saint-Amour and Giuseppe […]
The Sister Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matara, Community of St. Edith Stein at Precious Blood Monastery, Fort Hamilton, invite Tablet readers to join them for the Feast of Saint Joseph, on Wednesday, March 19.
CHICAGO (March 13, 2014) — In its 29th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, The Gatorade Company, in collaboration with USA TODAY High School Sports, today announced Sierra Calhoun of Christ the King High School as its 2013-14 Gatorade New York Girls Basketball Player of the Year. Calhoun is the seventh Gatorade […]
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio joined with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and major labor leaders to push for passage of a law that would permit an Education Investment Tax Credit.
As Russian troops continue their military invasion of Crimea, a strategic peninsula in Ukraine, local Ukrainian Catholics fear Russian aggression will once again bring havoc to their homeland and the rest of the world. “(Vladimir) Putin looks like a huge devil for the whole world. If nobody is going to stop him, he will […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Transit Bureau Chief Joseph Fox was named Man of the Year March 9 at the 94th annual Communion Mass and Breakfast of the New York City Police Department Brooklyn and Queens Holy Name Society. Over a thousand uniformed members of the Holy Name Society gathered for morning Mass at Our Lady […]
Deacon Richard Elrose of St. Helen Church, Howard Beach, distributed ashes to two classes of pre-kindergartners in the parish school on Ash Wednesday. Using the ashes, he traced crosses on the youngsters’ foreheads and explained that the ashes are a reminder of Jesus’ love for them.
Four Brooklyn parishes teamed up for a bold move when they took to the streets on Ash Wednesday. St. James Cathedral-Basilica and St. Boniface, both Downtown Brooklyn, and St. Charles Borromeo and Assumption, both Brooklyn Heights, distributed ashes in the street as part of an aggressive evangelization effort. They used as their guide the papal […]
