On Saturday Nov. 9, the Msgr. McClancy M.H.S., East Elmhurst, varsity boys’ soccer team captured the N.Y.C. “A” division championship by defeating John F. Kennedy Catholic H.S., Somers, N.Y., 2-1 at Fordham University, the Bronx. Both teams won their respective divisions, and it was a highly-anticipated matchup between the two No. 1 seeded teams. The […]
Author: Jim Mancari
Pro Sanctity Provides Daily Call to Holiness
Not everyone will be canonized a saint. In fact, a miniscule portion of Catholics are beatified let alone canonized. However, all baptized persons are called by God to be saints in their daily lives, and that is the message of the Pro Sanctity Movement, a worldwide movement rooted in the Catholic faith and dedicated to […]
Women See Church as Open to Inclusiveness
After private meetings with prefects of Vatican congregations and presidents of pontifical councils in late October, six Catholic women philanthropists came away hopeful and encouraged, because they felt an openness to including more women in advisory and other roles in the Catholic Church. Kerry Robinson, executive director of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, […]
Bullying: Incident in NFL Raises Awareness in Local High Schools
Turn on any television news program, read any newspaper, or follow any online blog, and you’ll surely find some sort of commentary on one of the lead stories in America right now: the Miami Dolphins’ bullying scandal. Though various reports have surfaced, the main premise involves the incessant harassment and hazing of Dolphins’ offensive tackle […]
Local Baseball Star to Host Winter Clinic
As football season continues this autumn, for some it’s still always baseball season. Even as the weather begins to get colder, there will undoubtedly be traces of baseball being played in the city this winter. And we have Anthony Iapoce to thank for that. Iapoce, who grew up playing Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) basketball and […]
Local Teams Emerge as CYO Soccer Champions
The 2013 Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) soccer season wrapped up with back-to-back weekends of championship games. Listed below are the results from those games: Girls’ Midget Our Lady of Hope, Middle Village, defeated St. Francis de Sales, Belle Harbor: 1-0. Girls’ Pee Wee Blessed Trinity, Breezy Point, defeated St. Francis de Sales: 1-0 Girls’ Novice […]
Evening of Musical Praise To the Blessed Mother
Choirs from St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y., and St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, N.Y., will jointly present an a cappella concert titled “Magnificat: Hymns to the Mother of God from the East and West,” Nov. 25, 7:30 p.m. at St. Jean Baptiste Church, 184 East 76th Street in Manhattan. Tickets are $25 each and […]
Holy Cross Wins ‘Battle of the Boulevard’ (with slideshow)
Holy Cross H.S., Flushing, and St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, are located just two miles apart on Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens. So naturally, a heated football rivalry – one that has been called the best high school football rivalry in New York City – exists between these two schools. Whenever they meet on the […]
Bishop Offers Holy Cross Students a Chance to ‘Follow Me’ (with slideshow)
For Halloween this year, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio dressed as a knight … a Holy Cross Knight, that is. The bishop marked his 17th anniversary of being raised to the episcopacy Oct. 31 at Holy Cross H.S., Flushing. He celebrated Mass with the school’s 900 young men as well as faculty and staff. “It’s (Holy Cross) […]
St. Saviour Alumnae Named to USCAA Women’s Volleyball National All-Academic Team
St. Saviour H.S., Park Slope, alumnae Cassandra Nasta has been named to the USCAA Women’s Volleyball National All-Academic Team. USCAA National All-Academic Team members must be sophomore academic standing or higher and maintain a minimum cumulative 3.5 grade point average in order to qualify. Nasta, a Brooklyn native who graduated from St. Saviour in 2012, […]