Former Holy Cross H.S., Flushing, wide receiver Devon Cajuste has gotten off to a fast start this season for the Stanford University Cardinal football team. In a 55-17 win Sept. 28 over Washington State, Cajuste caught four passes for 115 yds. and two touchdowns: one for 57 yds. and the other for 33 yds. For […]
Author: Jim Mancari
St. Edmund’s to Host 8th-Grade Boys Basketball Tournament
A message from St. Edmund Prep Athletic Director/Boys Varsity Basketball Coach Dan Wiatre. St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, will be running an 8th grade boys basketball tournament the week starting Oct. 21. The cost is $150 per team and includes three games (stop clock-high school rules), ALL-Tournament plaques, first and second place team trophy and a tournament […]
Bestowing Sacraments
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio traditionally baptizes, distributes Communion and confirms new Catholics during Easter Vigil services around the diocese.
A Look Back: Scenes from Bishop DiMarzio’s Installation Mass as the Seventh Bishop of Brooklyn
Photos from Bishop DiMarzio’s Installation Mass as the Seventh Bishop of Brooklyn Oct. 3, 2003
Around the World With Diocesan Youth
Cologne, Sydney, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro – Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has accompanied diocesan pilgrims on four World Youth Days. He encourages pilgrims as they make overnight vigil on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, to celebrate Mass with Pope Francis… After offering morning Mass at an English Catechesis site in Madrid, Spain, Bishop DiMarzio sends […]
Representing Brooklyn To the Holy Father
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio has represented the Brooklyn Diocese in Rome on several occasions. Bishop DiMarzio greets Pope John Paul II during his 2004 ad limina visit to the Vatican… Pope Benedict XVI shakes hands with Bishop DiMarzio, during the pope’s general audience at the Vatican on July 6, 2005… Bishop DiMarzio meets Pope Francis for […]
Timeline: A Decade of Leadership
Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Bishop Thomas V. Daily and appointed Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Camden, N.J., to succeed him as the seventh Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn on Aug. 1, 2003. Embracing the theme, “Put out into the deep,” Bishop DiMarzio has gone out into the depths of the […]
Showing Love for Philly
The summer may have been a break from school work for St. Edmund Prep students, but they continued to work hard to provide corporal and spiritual works of mercy. For the fourth summer in a row, students from the Sheepshead Bay high school spent a week in Philadelphia volunteering with the St. Vincent de Paul […]
New Novice
Joseph Bach was received into the Novitiate of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn. Pictured, from left, are Brother William Boslet, O.S.F., superior general of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn; Brother Joseph Bach; and Brother Richard Contino, O.S.F., novice director.
Chamber Music Series in Marine Park
The 18th annual chamber music series at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, begins on Oct. 6 with a performance by clarinetist Thomas Piercy. The concerts take place on 11 consecutive Sundays at 6 p.m. While admission is free and open to the public, voluntary donations for the performers are encouraged. Michael Fontana, parish music director, […]