The annual Recognition Mass of the Diocesan Union of Holy Name Societies was celebrated on Sunday, Feb. 15, at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn. The liturgy honors living members of Holy Name Societies throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Members of the executive board of the Brooklyn Diocesan Union are shown with staff of the cathedral. […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A 10th-century Armenian monk has been named among the doctors of the church. Pope Francis approved the designation for St. Gregory of Narek during a meeting Feb. 21 with Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. The church confers this designation on saints whose writings are considered to […]
By Father James Rodriguez ONCE AGAIN, AS A Church we have undertaken these 40 days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving, walking with our Lord on the way to Calvary. It seems as if our Christmas celebration is barely over before we are called to commemorate the Passion, yet truly both events point to the same […]
This week in Tablet TALK, a blood drive at St. Athanasius School in Bensonhurst, Spanish organist Loreto Aramendi in concert, a production of “The Barber of Seville” by the Regina Opera Company and more.
Staff have been getting training from experts who have worked for the U.N. or who have military experience to learn how to “monitor and evaluate the security situation” in the places they are working.
Deacon Louis Guastella, who was ordained for the Diocese of Brooklyn but served most recently in the Diocese of Las Vegas, Nev., died Feb. 21 in Las Vegas. He was ordained as a deacon in March of 1984 and served in Our Lady of Miracles in Canarsie, and at St. Catherine of Genoa, Flatbush. In […]
The archbishop told journalists that such a visit would “bring peace to that part of Eastern Europe soaked with the blood of so many martyrs for the unity of the church.”
Sister Rose Marie Mastellon, R.G.S., 96, a Sister of the Good Shepherd for 75 years, died at Mary Manning Walsh Healthcare Facility, Manhattan, Feb. 8. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she attended St. Agnes School, Cobble Hill, and St. Joseph’s H.S. in Downtown Brooklyn, before entering the community in 1939 in Peekskill, N.Y. She professed […]
Sister Mary Donovan, S.C., a Sister of Charity, Halifax, N.S., for 62 years, died at Mount St. Vincent, Wellesley Hills, Mass., on Feb. 13. She was 94. Formerly known as Sister Leo Michael, she was a teacher at Our Lady of Angels School, Bay Ridge, from 1958 to 1965. She also ministered in St. Barnabas School, Bellmore, L.I.; Canton, […]
Dear Editor: If you want to hear the Gospel readings for the day explained so beautifully and clearly, come to the 8:30 a.m. daily Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Brooklyn and listen to our Msgr. Joseph Calise.
