Iraqi Catholics faced persecution in 2014 when ISIS marked their homes with an “N.” The graffiti alerted gunmen that the people living there were followers of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene. The ensuing violence and chaos is the backdrop for Paul Mascia’s new book, “Nazar’s Journey.”
Author: Bill Miller
Ursuline Sisters Look Back on 100 Years of Their Ministry
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge became the nation’s 30th president after a landslide victory, the Statue of Liberty was designated as a National Monument, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade stepped off for the first time. Meanwhile, a small group of religious women arrived in Queens to establish the U.S. Province of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk.
NY Bishops: Unborn Threatened by ‘Wolf-in-Sheep’s Clothing’ Abortion Amendment
New York’s Catholic bishops are warning that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the state’s constitution is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that endangers the unborn and could degrade parental rights.
Excitement, New Beginnings Fill The Air on First Day at Incarnation Catholic Academy
Surprises awaited students — early childhood to eighth grade — as they climbed the stairs into Incarnation Catholic Academy on Sept. 4 — the first day of classes for the new academic year. Greeting them in the hallway was their new principal, Dr. Ivan Green, along with Father Josephjude Gannon, the school’s board chairman, and Bishop Robert Brennan.
Meet the Diocese’s Newest Lead Educators For the Upcoming School Year
everal new principals and assistant principals greeted students on Sept. 4, the first day of classes at Catholic schools/academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Did You Know? Tax-Credit Funding for School Choice Existed in N.Y.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Bishop Emeritus Nicholas DiMarzio recalled how, in 2006, as a winter storm heaped drifts of wet snow on Brooklyn, a national teachers union leader came to visit. Randi Weingarten, then the president of the United Federation of Teachers, urged him to drop his support of a bill in the Legislature to allow […]
Cookies Bearing Likeness of Pope Francis Given after Mass to Rikers Island Inmates
Maria Notaro of La Guli Pastry Shop in Astoria has revised her cookie recipe that commemorated Pope Francis’s 2015 visit to New York City. She recently shared a batch of the treats with people trying to grow in the faith, even while incarcerated at Rikers Island.
Visiting Priest’s Quick Actions Help Contain Fire at St. Catherine of Genoa
An early-evening fire on Friday at St. Catherine of Genoa forced the church to temporarily close and parishioners to attend Mass in the basement of its former school on Sunday, Aug. 25.
Researchers’ Study Contends Shroud of Turin Actually Dates to the Time of Jesus
Bill Lauto, a Long Island-based environmental scientist, wants the world to rethink enduring beliefs that the Shroud of Turin is a fraud concocted by medieval hoaxers. And now, a team of Italian researchers who conducted dating work on a sample of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth believed by some to have been Jesus Christ’s burial shroud, have confirmed the relic can be traced back almost 2,000 years.
Statue of Father McGivney, the First of Many, Is Unveiled in Brooklyn
The unveiling of the first in a series of statues of Blessed Father Michael McGivney spurred joyous enthusiasm Tuesday, Aug. 13 upon its arrival at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights.
