Clergy and parishioners at St. Dominic Church were in shock after two statues were defaced and its glass front doors shattered in a vandal’s attack Monday afternoon, June 10, authorities and church officials said.
Author: Alicia Venter
Queens Catholic Academy Students Are Surrounded By Images of the Sainthood-Bound Teen
Hunter Hodes is just like any other fifth grade student, collecting baseball cards and playing video games like Roblox, similar to many of his classmates at St. Joseph Catholic Academy.
Catholic Queens Man’s Prayers Are Answered: A Lifesaving Kidney Donor Is Found
On Friday, May 23, Petar Vukelich did something he had never done before. He put a new set of rosary beads, a gift from his mother’s friend, around his neck. He kissed the cross, asked God to protect him, and just two hours later, he said, he received a call, giving him the news he had been waiting months for.
A Win for Safety: Queens Catholic School Students Get Speed Bump Installed
Tatiana Lamadrid is always a little careful when it comes time to be picked up after school. For years, the eighth grade student at St. Adalbert Catholic Academy had to be, especially after she was nearly hurt when getting into her dad’s car.
Once a Soldier for the Army, Priest Is Now a Soldier for the Lord
As Father David Santos peacefully leads the faithful in Springfield, New Jersey, he may not come off like a military man. But the pastor at St. James the Apostle Church has seen the brutality of war first hand, having faced death in Iraq during the height of war.
A Couple Spreads The Faith That Sustains Their Love Into Classrooms
When Andrea Pinnavaia joined her church choir in high school, she had no idea she would be singing alongside her future husband. But it was a possibility; they lived just about 15 blocks away from each other, and their families were parishioners at Good Shepherd Church in Sheepshead Bay. Undoubtedly, at one point or another, their parents had sat next to one another in the pews.
Catholic Queens Man’s Prayers Are Answered at 11th Hour When Kidney Donor Is Found
As he approached end-stage renal failure, Petar Vukelich had been running out of options. His kidney function was at less than 10%, and in an anguished attempt to find a living donor for him, he and his family were reaching out to his Sunnyside community and beyond.
St. Francis Prep Grads Get A Sweet Sendoff to College
There is a freshly baked tradition at St. Francis Preparatory School, dating back decades. Chocolate chip cookies, made in-house, are entrenched in the warm tradition the Catholic school works to create, and are given sporadically to the students throughout their four years to commemorate special parts of their academic career.
Diocese of Brooklyn Catholics Cheer News That Carlo Acutis Will Become First Millennial Saint
Since his beatification less than four years ago, Blessed Carlo Acutis has been an integral part of the prayer life in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Award-Winning Author’s Message to Diocesan Students: Reject Hate, Embrace Tolerance
About seven years ago, high school students in a small city along Lake Ontario in upstate New York were assigned a project. Their teacher told them to pretend they were members of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party and argue for, or against, the Holocaust’s Final Solution.