Dyker Heights School Tops All in Mission Aid (with slideshow)
October 24, 2013
For the sixth year in a row, St. Bernadette’s School in Dyker Heights has raised more money for the missions...
Ed Wilkinson
Dinner Attendees Ensure A Future for Education
October 16, 2013
It was a big night at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan when the Futures in Education Foundation held its annual Scholarship...
Faith of Immigrants Shines in Our Midst
October 9, 2013
The annual Shining Star Award Dinner is so popular that the Diocesan Migration Services has to run two of them....
The Struggle to Rescue Traditional Values
October 2, 2013
Signers of The Manhattan Declaration held what amounted to a pep rally for their cause last week at Columbia University....
Is the Pope Saying Something New?
September 25, 2013
Reactions to a published interview with Pope Francis in last week’s America magazine have Church pundits puzzled, but they are...
Bensonhurst Parishioners Will Not Be Forgotten
September 18, 2013
There’s a new 9/11 memorial in Brooklyn. It was dedicated last week on the 12th anniversary of that horrific terrorist...
Pope Francis Positions Himself as Peacemaker
September 11, 2013
With his call for peace in the world in the face of another Middle East war, Pope Francis has established...
Another Step on the Road to Priesthood
September 5, 2013
The 10 men who were ordained as deacons by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio last weekend at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn,...
Saints Revered for Good Works, Persevering Faith
August 28, 2013
For the past two weeks, we have been talking about the saints. St. Anthony of Padua was selected as our...
Other Saints Also Deserve a Mention
August 21, 2013
Last week, we reported that St. Anthony of Padua has once again been chosen as our favorite saint. In a...