Father Purpura was ordained to the priesthood to serve the Diocese of Brooklyn on June 30, 2007.
Month: June 2023
Father Joseph M. Hoffman
Father Hoffman was ordained to the priesthood in October 1979.
Father John J. Costello
Father Costello was ordained to the priesthood on June 24, 1989.
Father Peter J. Purpura
Father Purpura was ordained to the priesthood to serve the Diocese of Brooklyn on June 30, 2007.
Bishop Brennan Unveils New Regional Governance, Says Restructuring Deaneries Sets Diocese Up for the Future
Bishop Robert Brennan has made changes to how the diocese is currently set up with two distinctive boroughs — Brooklyn and Queens — each with an episcopal vicar.
As Hurricane Season Nears, Florida Diocese Struggles With Insurance Rate Spikes
A few months out from the Atlantic’s peak hurricane season, Bishop William Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida, is calling attention to the precarious situation the diocese is in because of massive insurance rate increases.
New Religious Freedom Report Shows Attacks Growing Worldwide
A report issued June 22 by Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic international aid organization, said that religious freedom rights were violated in 61 countries, impacting more than 4 billion people.
Black Catholics Gear Up for Upcoming Congress and Conference
Marc Guess, a parishioner at St. Monica Catholic Church in Indianapolis, attended the first National Black Catholic Men’s Conference in Memphis 20 years ago. He has been to almost every one of the annual events since and plans to attend this year’s conference in October in Louisville, Kentucky.
Vatican Investigator Vows to Stay ‘Close to the Pain’ of ‘Vatican Girl’ Family
On the 40th anniversary of the disappearance of the “Vatican Girl,” whose fate over the decades since has become the Italian equivalent of the Kennedy assassination, a Vatican prosecutor has promised to continue a new investigation while remaining “close to the pain” of the girl’s family.
Fatima Visionary Declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis
Sister Lúcia dos Santos, who, with her cousins, reported seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary when she was a child in Fátima, Portugal, has received a decree of heroic virtues from Pope Francis, meaning she now has the title “venerable.”