The 95th annual Communion-breakfast of the Brooklyn-Queens Holy Name Society of the NYPD was held Sunday, March 15, in Queens Village. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was the main celebrant of the Mass.
Month: March 2015
St. Mark’s Challenges Kids To Have Fun
Sometimes in the heat of the moment during a basketball game, the only thing on a competitor’s mind is winning. A team will do whatever it takes to have more points than the other team by the time the final buzzer sounds. Such is the whole purpose of the sport, right? Well, ask a group […]
St. Patrick’s Day in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Al O’Hagan of the Ancient Order of Hibernians hosted the annual St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast at Brooklyn Borough Hall. St. Francis College President Brendan Dugan was honored as the Irishman of the Year. Also feted were Judge Elizabeth A. Foley, the William T. Bellard Award; Kevin Peter Carroll, the […]
Family Spirit Sustains Men, Women in Blue
It hasn’t been a very good year to be a police officer. Ferguson! The Eric Garner Grand Jury decision! The assassinations of Detectives Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos! They have been just some of the hurdles that law enforcement officials have had to jump this year. That’s why it was important that this year’s Communion-breakfast […]
Around the Diocese: March 21, 2015
BROOKLYN Good Shepherd, Marine Park — Healing Mass, March 20, 7:30 p.m. Celebrant: Father John Maduri. Rosary at 7:10 p.m. Call 998-2800. St. Columba, Marine Park — Spring Fest: Raffle Night Card Party, March 20, 6:30 p.m. Sponsored by Ladies’ Guild. Donation: $20, includes chips, pretzels, cookies, soda, coffee and tea. Age 18 and older. […]
Praying with Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Our Diocese of Brooklyn is committed to the spiritual and emotional well-being of victims who become survivors, and what an important way to begin with this focus group of survivors who have shared with us what would be meaningful to them.
Sister Damian Marie McKeever, S.C.
Sister Damian Marie McKeever, S.C., (Mary Agnes), a Sister of Charity of New York for 69 years, died March 1 at the Convent of Mary the Queen. She was 86. Born in Manhattan, she attended Sacred Heart School and Cathedral H.S. before entering the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1946. She attended the […]
Sister Margaret Griffin, S.C.
Sister Margaret Griffin, S.C. (Sister Leo Stanislaus) died on March 13, at Mount St. Vincent, Wellesley Hills, Mass., at the age of 99. A Sister of Charity (Halifax) for 80 years, she was missioned at St. Sylvester School in City Line, 1947-53 as an eighth-grade teacher. She also ministered at Our Lady of Good Counsel, […]
Sister Margaret Wenzel, O.P.
Sister Margaret Wenzel, O.P., a Sister of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 76 years, died Feb. 27. She was 96. Born in Brooklyn, she was raised in St. Martin of Tours parish in Bushwick. After attending the Dominican Sisters’ H.S. Juniorate, she entered the congregation on Sept. 8, 1938. She pronounced her vows on Aug. 17, […]
Pope Talks About a Brief Papacy
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – When Pope Francis went out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the first time, he said he did not prepare what he was going to say, but “I felt deeply that a minister needs the blessing of God, but also of his people.” He did not […]