New York City rental industry analysts warn of massive financial losses for landlords in 2020, yet one Brooklyn Landlord, Mario Salerno, made headlines when he canceled April rent for his 200 tenants to help them deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Author: Bill Miller
Black Coalition Assail Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood has voiced solidarity to the Black Lives Matter movement, prompting pro-life leaders from African American communities to challenge the abortion provider with this question: “Will you confront the iniquity that your abortion practices perpetrate against Black lives? Will you fight the racism that targets Black lives in the womb?”
Light of the World Called Upon to Fight Darkness of Racism
This year’s Feast Day Mass for St. Peter Claver in Brooklyn, according to the homilist, was a momentous step toward healing “America’s original sin” — racism.
Pandemic Can’t Stop Adults From Receiving Sacraments
Last Spring, about 1,000 people planned to complete sacraments at the Easter Vigil, but it got canceled because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Diocese leaders directed the parishes to figure out how to administer sacraments to these people. The perishes delivered, with special efforts from their education directors.
Father Gioacchino Basile Is Finally Going Home
The body of the late-pastor of St. Gabriel’s Church in East Elmhurst, Father Gioacchino Basile, one of the diocesan priests who died April 4 due to complications associated with COVID-19, will make its way home to Calabria, a region in southern Italy. On Sept. 8, parishioners gathered outside of Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen, Carroll Gardens, to bid their final farewell to their beloved pastor and friend.
Eviction Moratorium Seen As Short-Term Fix That Might Bring Long-Term Problems
A moratorium on housing evictions announced Sept. 1 by President Donald Trump will keep thousands of Americans in their homes through the end of the year, but critics say it would only delay a housing catastrophe for a few months.
Invalid Baptisms Possible But Rare
Catholics in the U.S. are learning about a problem most could never anticipate — the idea that a baptism could be invalid. Church leaders in the Diocese of Brooklyn acknowledged that this could happen.
Only in Print: ‘Shock’ of Pandemic Hit Lay Movements Hard
Survivors of COVID-19, or even those who never had it, can still suffer its residual ravages of confusion, isolation, and loneliness — sorrows shared by lay workers for the Diocese of Brooklyn. In the pandemic’s wake, they grieve losses of family, friends, and even clergy, but they also mourn how the disease robbed them of the fellowship they enjoyed while laboring in dozens of lay movements active in the diocese.
Covington High School Teen, Nick Sandmann, Speaks at RNC
Kentucky teenager Nick Sandmann told the RNC audience Tuesday that the “full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode” against him last year without knowing all the facts.
Four More Years? The Incumbents’ Record on the Issues, Including Abortion, Religious Freedom and Immigration
President Donald Trump officially became the GOP’s 2020 presidential nominee at the party’s convention this week in Charlotte, N.C. But winning the national Catholic vote in November is not necessarily a slam dunk.