Fires in New York City happen fairly often, causing widespread damage, displacement from homes and, sometimes, tragedy.
Month: July 2019
Cuban Cardinal, Dead at 83, Was a Truly Remarkable Churchman
Born in 1936, Ortega was ordained in 1964, while the Second Vatican Council was still underway and just five years after Fidel Castro had swept to power.
Vatican: Bones Found at Cemetery Do Not Belong to Missing Woman
The Holy See Press Office said that the results of a morphological analysis of bones and bone fragments found at an ossuary in a Vatican cemetery concluded that none belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, a young Italian woman who has been missing for more than 30 years.
Sister Annmarie McNicholl
Sister Annmarie McNicholl,a native of Jackson Heights who was a Carmelite sister for 62 years, died on June 29 at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
Carlos Velasquez
Carlos Velasquez, father of Father Carlos C. Velasquez, pastor of St. Mary Gate of Heaven, Ozone Park, died June 24 in Nicaragua.
Deacon Michael J. Troy
Deacon Michael J. Troy, a retired deacon of the Diocese of Brooklyn, died June 29 at Hamilton Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dyker Heights.
Sister Gladys Murphy, S.S.N.D.
Sister Gladys Murphy, S.S.N.D. — a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 65 years, who worked as a teacher and administrator in the Diocese of Brooklyn — died May 13 at Lourdes Health Care Center, Wilton, Conn. She was 87.
Sister Alberta Manzo, O.S.F.
Sister Alberta Manzo, O.S.F., who served as a teacher and social worker in the Diocese of Brooklyn for 12 years, died June 19 in Assisi House in Aston, Pa.
Boris Johnson Gives British Church Trump-Like Conundrum
Lenin once famously asked, “how can you make a revolution without firing squads?” Boris Johnson, Britain’s newly appointed prime minister, has taken that advice to heart – in his first hours in office, over half the ministers in outgoing prime minster Theresa May’s government were pushed out or resigned.
Sheila Conlon
Sheila Conlon, mother of Father Richard Conlon, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila – St. Anthony of Padua, South Ozone Park,