Youth from through out the diocese celebrate this holiest of times in unique ways.
Month: April 2015
Tablet TALK: Flushing Scouts Earn Silver Awards
In this week’s Tablet TALK, St. Kevin’s Girl Scouts are honored, St. Mel’s new servers are installed, a chance to help clean up the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, and more.
Symphony Space in Queens
Dear Editor: What a treat! It was Lincoln Center without the travel. I am talking about the recent (March 22) debut performance of the Queensboro Symphony Orchestra in the sanctuary of historic Mary’s Nativity Church in Flushing. It was a wonderful evening for music lovers and especially meaningful for me since I served on the […]
Photos: Good Friday in Brooklyn and Queens
Images of Good Friday processions throughout Brooklyn and Queens.
Photos: Easter Services in Brooklyn and Queens
Easter morning prayer at St. Sebastian’s, Woodside, and the blessing of the Easter baskets at St. Frances de Chantal, Borough Park.
Longest Home Run Has Molloy Ties
New York City fans may remember Ed Kurpiel as the star first baseman for Archbishop Molloy H.S. in the early 1970s, but it was a mammoth home run in 1972 that has etched his name in the record books.
Robert Blair Kaiser, Reporter Who Covered Vatican II
Robert Blair Kaiser, whose award-winning coverage of the Second Vatican Council for Time magazine played a significant role in informing Americans about the council, died April 2 in hospice care in Phoenix. He was 84. His funeral Mass was to be celebrated April 10 at St. Francis Xavier Church in Phoenix.
Joseph Stile, Active in Brooklyn Church and Community, Dies at 97
Joseph Stile, 97, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, who was involved in many church and community activities, died peacefully on March 28. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on April 1 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Flatlands. He was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and a member of the Holy Name Society for […]
Sister Claire McRudin
Sister Claire McRudin, S.C., a Sister of Charity, Halifax, for 64 years, died at Mount St. Vincent, Wellsley Hills, Mass., March 31. She was 84. Formerly known as Sister John Kevin, she taught first and second grades at Our Lady of Angels School, Bay Ridge, 1951-63, and first grade at Resurrection-Ascension School, Rego Park, 1963-66. From […]
Sister Kathleen Hanrahan, S.C.
Sister Kathleen Hanrahan, S.C., 94, who entered the Sisters of Charity of New York in 1938, died March 22 at St. Patrick’s Home, the Bronx. Her only assignment in the Brooklyn Diocese was as a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at St. Peter’s School in Cobble Hill, from 1948 to 1953. Burial was in St. Joseph’s […]