Baptisms in Diocese of Brooklyn Rose in 2022 After a Decade in Decline
April 9, 2024
Baptisms inched back in the Diocese of Brooklyn in 2022 following a near decade-long decline, according to the latest data...
Bill Miller
30 Years After Horrific Rwanda Genocide, Church Calls for Tribal Reconciliation
April 8, 2024
Father Marcel Uwineza recalls he was 14 in April 1994 when a fearful pall “like an evil spirit” draped his...
One Week After Easter Sunday Inferno, Parishioners Unite With Sister Church
April 8, 2024
Parishioners of Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii went back to church on Sunday, April 7, one week after...
On Good Friday, Hundreds Walked The Way of the Cross Over the Brooklyn Bridge
March 29, 2024
Several hundred people of all ages and cultures had something in common as they poured onto the Brooklyn Bridge Friday,...
Long-Awaited Chapel to Land At LaGuardia This Summer
March 26, 2024
The much-anticipated interfaith chapel in the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport is expected to open for prayer in July,...
Foreign-Born Priests and Nuns, Lacking Green Cards, May Have to Leave the US
March 25, 2024
Dioceses throughout the U.S. have long relied on foreign-born priests and religious to make up for increasingly fewer vocations each...
Missionary Priest Travels the U.S., and Beyond, ‘to Be a Witness of Hope’
March 25, 2024
A former college chaplain and a candidate for sainthood inspired a Haitian-born priest from Brooklyn to visit sweltering northwest Arkansas...
Bishop Brennan and Procession Took ‘Faith Into the Streets’ on Palm Sunday
March 25, 2024
For a third straight year, Bishop Robert Brennan led a holy procession of palm-waving faithful through the streets of Brooklyn...
Venerable Henriette Delille Was ‘the Humble Servant of Slaves’
March 13, 2024
Henriette Díaz Delille, a free woman of color before the Civil War in New Orleans, became a religious sister who...
Trees Grow in Vegetation-Needy African Nations, Thanks to Conservation Movement
March 11, 2024
“My name is Arouna Kandé,” says the young man from Senegal. “I am a climate refugee.” This brief introduction appears...