U.S. Military Academy Cadet Brandon T. Jackson, a member of the Class of 2019, and a member of the West Point football team, died as the result of a single car accident Sept. 11 in Croton, N.Y.
Month: September 2016
Ozone Park Couple Celebrates 60 Years of Marriage, Renews Vows
This week’s Tablet TALK highlights a renewal of wedding vows in Ozone Park and new altar servers in Douglaston, and offers details on several upcoming events in Brooklyn, Queens and Long island.
Around the Diocese: Oct. 1, 2016
This week’s listing features events in Brooklyn and Queens into early October.
It’s Not Too Late to Start Acts of Mercy
We are still in the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, which Pope Francis proclaimed from Dec. 8, 2015, until Nov. 20, 2016. Before you know it, Nov. 20 will be here and we will be asking ourselves: “Just what did I do in the Year of Mercy?”
‘Laudato Si’ Is an Everyday Response
Pope Francis has designated the time between Sept. 1, the World Day of Prayer for Creation and Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, as a “Time for Creation: an opportunity to strengthen the common commitment to safeguard life, respecting the environment and nature.”
Statue of St. Francis Is Back with the Brothers
On Oct. 4, the St. Francis Prep community, Fresh Meadows, will celebrate the feast day of the school’s patron saint, and mark the return of a statue of St. Francis of Assisi that was part of the school’s first campus on Butler St. in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Loughlin Gala Marks School’s 165th Year
Perhaps the only thing that’s been in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood longer than Brother Peter Bonventre, F.S.C., is Bishop Loughlin M.H.S., which marked its 165th anniversary with a festive reception.
Diocesan Pilgrims in the Holy Land
Pilgrims from the Brooklyn Diocese who are on a Year of Mercy Holy Land visit joined the diocese’s newest members of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre as they were welcomed into the fraternal Order by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzabella, the new apostolic administrator of the Latin patriarchate, in Jerusalem.
Parish Rallies Around Family of Man Shot in Charlotte
Justin Carr’s future looked bright. He had just celebrated his 26th birthday, started a new job and was getting ready to settle down and start a family. That ended Sept. 21, when a bullet shattered his skull. The next day, he was dead.
Too Much Big Government
Dear Editor: I heard a quote the other day. It went something like this (paraphrased): “The usual right wing, left wing division matters less than the division between the establishment and the rest of us.”