The Catholic School Teacher Scholarship program is being offered to 12 Catholic school educators entering St. John’s graduate degree program in Fall 2022.
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Only In Print: Cloistered Nuns Offer Holy Face Relic for Veneration, Before Move
Catholic tradition holds that God incarnate, Jesus Christ, left an image of his face on the veil of a woman who used it to wipe blood and sweat from his face.
Only In Print: Interactive Tomb at St. Pancras Touches Senses, Spurs Emotion
Jesus of Nazareth, having died on the cross, lays on a platform, his body bruised, pierced and bloodied during His agonizing Crucifixion.
Only In Print: Greenpoint Revelers Exclaim, ‘Everybody’s Polish on Dyngus Day!’
Polish tradition flourished Monday, April 18 — the day after Easter — with the first “Dyngus Day” celebration in a Brooklyn neighborhood famously known as “Little Poland.”
St. Adalbert Students Bestow Their Teacher With Highest Honor
A “Hall of Fame” of famous and accomplished women through history appear in a special display at St. Adalbert Catholic Academy in Elmhurst. The students picked St. Adalbert’s middle school English teacher, Michele Curry Cardona, to join the roster.
Easter Evokes Prayers for Peace in Ever-Violent City
Bishop Robert Brennan’s Easter Sunday message proclaiming the risen Christ’s victory over evil, resonated with a 15-year-old altar server for the Mass at Cathedral-Basilica of St. James.
Bishop Brennan Joins Large, Renewed Procession Across the Brooklyn Bridge
A brilliant sunny sky and a light breeze greeted the several hundred marchers who packed the Brooklyn Bridge Friday, April 14 for the Way of the Cross devotion for Good Friday. The event was cancelled the past two years because of the pandemic.
led by Bishop Robert Brennan.
Only In Print: Celebrate the Risen Lord with Easter Bread
Rings of Easter bread, or Pane di Pasqua in Italian, exuding the aroma of sweet cake, emerged from the oven of Caputo’s Bake Shop the day before Palm Sunday.
Oils Blessed, Clergy Renew Vows at Chrism Mass
For the first time since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the annual Chrism Mass drew a full congregation Tuesday of priests, deacons, nuns, seminarians, and laity. With no COVID restrictions, the Mass at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph was Bishop Brennan’s first time to celebrate the annual event in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Solemn Chrism Mass Slated for Tonight at Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph
The Chrism Mass, one of the most solemn services of the liturgical calendar, is tonight at 7:30 p.m. It is expected to bring more than 650 Catholic clergy, laity, and other faithful tonight to the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph.