Faithful Find Peace Through Prayer in Eucharistic Adoration Chapels

Two years ago, Victoria Chacho was desperate — and heartbroken. The mother of four would often quarrel with her husband, Edgar, when he was drunk, and ultimately they separated. Afterward, she felt helpless, but as a lifelong Catholic, she loved the Lord, and knew that He is present in the Eucharist. 

Brooklyn Priest, Home After Escape From Haiti, Prays for Its People and His Family

FLATBUSH — Father Lucon Rigaud recently traveled to his hometown in Haiti, but he did not experience any of the gang violence that roils the troubled Caribbean country’s capital, Port-au-Prince.  Still, while no one shot at him, he experienced the chaos differently.  Roadblocks manned by armed, gang-affiliated thugs throttle the flow of vital goods and […]

One Week After Easter Sunday Inferno, Parishioners Unite With Sister Church

Parishioners of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii went back to church on Sunday, April 7, one week after billowing black smoke and fierce flames interrupted Easter Mass and displaced congregants indefinitely. Still, they had a familiar place nearby to worship — their sister congregation, All Saints Church, in East Williamsburg. 

Foreign-Born Priests and Nuns, Lacking Green Cards, May Have to Leave the US

Dioceses throughout the U.S. have long relied on foreign-born priests and religious to make up for increasingly fewer vocations each year. In Brooklyn and Queens, these clergy and sisters speak some 30 languages of the thousands of Catholics from around the world who comprise this “Diocese of Immigrants.”