East Meets West on Good Friday’s Way of the Cross

No “schism” was to be found on Good Friday, April 18, as Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox Christians walked together in a solemn Way of the Cross procession over the Brooklyn Bridge.

Blueprints of Hope: The Story Behind Brooklyn’s Lost Cathedral

Famed 19th-century Irish-American church architect Patrick Keely built 19 major cathedrals in Canada and the U.S., including Newark, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Natchez, Mississippi, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, none of those elaborate Gothic-style landmarks are in Keely’s adopted city of Brooklyn, although he died in 1896 believing one of his designs would be built there.