New York Knicks legend Walt “Clyde” Frazier hosted a basketball clinic and signed autographs for the youth of St. Kevin’s parish in Flushing.
Month: January 2023
New Transitional Deacon Wishes to Continue Work With Deaf Community
Samuel Mwiwawi spent his childhood in nearly every corner of his Kenyan homeland.
St. James Beams New Tower Lights, Adds Exclamation to Bicentennial Celebration
A few days after becoming pastor and rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in June 2019, Father Bryan Patterson noticed something odd about the historic church. He had been in DUMBO running errands; his evening stroll back to the parish came after sundown. But as he approached the campus at Jay Street and Cathedral Place, the basilica itself was anything but glorious.
Cause for Father Capodanno Gets a Lift After Delay, Military Archbishop to Appoint Panel to Probe Sainthood Push
The cause for sainthood for Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, a U.S. Navy chaplain killed ministering to wounded Marines on a Vietnam War battlefield, has moved slightly forward, say those advocating canonization for the man they called the “grunt padre.”
To Fish as Jesus Does Is to Be a Fisher of Men
I love fish on my plate, seeing them in aquariums, and coming upon very tiny ones in the surf of Coney Island.
My Personal Relationships And Sunday Communion
Once I became aware of communion as both an orientation toward loving put into us by God and also as a goal that each of us is called to reach, I began to think about various relationships that I have and how I can possibly achieve communion through them.
March for Life Important Despite SCOTUS Ruling
As the faithful head to Washington, D.C., for the March for Life demonstration, the future of abortion in the United States seems murky at best.
Letters to the Editor Week of Jan. 21, 2022
Doing God’s Work; Questioning George Weigel; Kudos to Weigel; Praise for Holy Family Catholic Academy; Music to My Ears;
Obituaries, Week of Jan. 21, 2023
Sister M. Daria McGinn, IHM; Sister Ellen Patrice Hopkins, OP; Sister Elizabeth (Betty) O’Brien, CSJ; Sister Therese Mary Jayne, O.P.
A Place of Light, Peace, and Hope
In 2019, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio asked me to be the rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn.