Italians Celebrate
October 5, 2016
The Italian Apostolate in Brooklyn and Queens held a diocesan celebration in honor of the Feast of the Guardian Angels....
Ed Wilkinson
Italian Traditions Feel At Home in Brooklyn
October 5, 2016
The buses rolled into Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza last Sunday afternoon as hundreds of parishioners disembarked and lined up for...
World’s Fair Continues To Make Memories
September 21, 2016
It happened more than 50 years ago, yet people can’t stop talking about the New York World’s Fair that took...
Mozart Adds to Local Sounds of Remembrance
September 14, 2016
St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, reverberated with the sounds of the 18th century when Mozart’s Requiem was performed as part...
Seminarian’s ‘Miracle’ From Mother Teresa
September 14, 2016
Henry Torres, who is studying his fourth year of theology at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, is the first person to...
Skipping a Storm and Celebrating a Culture
September 7, 2016
That the West Indian Day Parade actually took place at all was something of a miracle. For days, weather forecasters...
Mother Teresa Visited Brooklyn Many Times
August 31, 2016
As Mother Teresa is raised to the dignity of sainthood this weekend, memories of her visits to Brooklyn are still...
Little Known Barren Island Part of Diocesan History
August 24, 2016
Little known to most Brooklynites today is the one-time community of Barren Island. It was an actual island off the...
Archbishop Molloy Saw Great Growth in Diocese
August 17, 2016
For the past two weeks, I’ve been writing about the first two bishops of Brooklyn on the occasion of the...
B’klyn’s Second Bishop Kept Building Diocese
August 10, 2016
Last week, I told you about the first Bishop of Brooklyn as his remains were brought back to the diocese....