On Sept. 16, students from both Xaverian’s middle school program, Genesis, and high school in Bay Ridge joined forces to Go Gold to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The Go Gold effort has been spearheaded by Camille Orichio-Loccisano, who lost her son, Frankie, a member of Xaverian’s class of 2008, to pediatric cancer in 2007. […]
Month: September 2015
Around the Diocese: Sept. 26, 2015
BROOKLYN St. Thomas Aquinas, Flatlands — Caribbean Night, Sept. 26, 7 p.m. in Msgr. King Hall. Call 253-4404. St. Frances Cabrini, Bath Beach — Madonna di Montevergine Feast, Sept. 27, 2 p.m. Mass. Culmination of four-day feast, Sept. 24-27. Sponsor: Knights of Columbus Council No. 481. Call 259-8840. Our Lady of Peace, Gowanus/Park Slope — […]
Spots Available for St. Edmund Prep Tip-Off Tourney
St. Edmund Prep H.S., Sheepshead Bay, will host its 20th annual Tip-Off Tournament to ring in the Catholic Youth Organization basketball season.
In NY Service, Pope Offers Encouragement to Men, Women Religious
During an evening prayer service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Pope Francis thanked the nation’s priests, brothers and women religious for their service and gave particular thanks to women religious saying, “Where would the church be without you?”
Relics of St. Maria Goretti To Be Venerated in Brooklyn
It is the first time that the saint’s body has travelled to the U.S. and only the second time that it has left Italy. The relics can be venerated at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, on Thursday Oct. 1 and at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, on Friday, Oct. 2.
Pope to Congress: Stop Bickering, World Needs Your Help
The past, the promise and the potential of the U.S. must not be smothered by bickering and even hatred at a time when the U.S. people and the world need a helping hand, Pope Francis told Congress.
Rough Rider’s Lessons For Political Ruffians
SITTING AT A WRITING-desk in the White House on Dec. 11, 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt was an unhappy camper. In previous letters, he addressed his correspondent as “Dear Maria.” Now, it was “Mrs. Storer” who would be on the receiving end of the presidential wrath.
Older Adults Should Get Shingles Vaccine
Dear Dr. Garner, My husband is a really tough guy. He had no problem with kidney stones and even has a Purple Heart from Korea. He finally has met his match in shingles. I have never seen in him so much pain. I am really annoyed that our doctor never told us that there was a vaccine to prevent this from happening.
Pope Tells Obama He’s Ready To Learn in US
Pope Francis introduced himself to President Barack Obama and all people of the United States as a “son of an immigrant family” arriving in the United States for the first time to learn from others and to share from his own experience.
At Canonization Mass, Pope Urges Faith Sharing
Canonizing the 18th-century Spanish missionary, Blessed Junipero Serra, Pope Francis insisted a person’s faith is alive only when it is shared.