“In these last few hours, we have seen in Korea a good example of the culture of encounter,” Pope Francis said in his Sunday Angelus general address at the Vatican, which occurred a few hours local time after a meeting between Trump and Jong-un.
Author: Allyson Escobar
Bishop DiMarzio Visits St. Pius X to Offer Help After Fire
Last week, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio visited St. Pius X, Rosedale, the parish whose church was almost destroyed by a fire earlier in June, to offer help from the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Alabama Woman Indicted for Killing Her Own Unborn Child
A woman in Birmingham, Ala. — the biggest city in the state that in May passed the strictest abortion law since Roe v. Wade — was indicted in the shooting death of her own unborn child.
Seminarian From Staten Island Dies in Colorado Bus Crash
One of the two people who died in a bus crash in Colorado on June 23 was a seminarian originally from Staten Island.
St. Pius X on the Rebound After Fire
St. Pius X, Rosedale, whose church was ravaged by a fire on June 16, is showing the world that it’s the faith of its parishioners that makes a community, not a building.
Photo of Drowned Migrant Father and Daughter Shocks Nation
A searing photo of a migrant father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande River on the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas has gone viral, becoming the latest flashpoint in the issue of immigration at the southern border.
DeSales Media Group Racks Up 50 CPA Awards
The Tablet, Nuestra Voz, NET-TV and DeSales Media Group took home a total of 50 Catholic Press Association awards, including Best TV Station (NET-TV), Best Multimedia Package and Best Reporting on Vocations to Priesthood, Religious Life or Diaconate.
Franciscan Priest From Brooklyn, a WWII Hero, Remembered 75 Years Later
A 75th memorial Mass for Father Dominic Ternan, O.F.M., was celebrated on June 19 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhattan, which is where he had his first pastoral assignment as a newly ordained priest in the late 1930s. St. Francis of Assisi was also the site of Father Ternan’s funeral Mass.
Brooklyn/Queens Catholic Charities Dinner Raises $1.3M, Honors Donors
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens hosted on June 19 the agency’s annual humanitarian awards and benefit dinner, a fundraiser held this year at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan.
Cuomo Quashes Prostitution Bill for Now
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on June 17 that he wouldn’t sign a bill to legalize prostitution, effectively ending efforts by lawmakers to pass the bill during this legislative session, which ends on June 19.