Couples from around the Diocese of Brooklyn reaffirmed their love for one another “in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, all the days of their lives” at the annual Diocesan Eucharistic Celebration of Wedding Anniversaries, held April 27 at Immaculate Conception Monastery, Jamaica. Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros celebrated the morning Mass, […]
Author: Jim Mancari
Rookie of the Year Restores City Bus Line and Helps Keep Streets Clean
Priscilla Consolo, a young parishioner of Our Lady of Grace, Gravesend, is this year’s Rookie of the Year. The Brooklyn Spectator and Home Reporter newspapers honored her as such during their annual 40 Under 40 Rising Stars event. Consolo, 19, was the youngest honoree at the ceremony. A freshman at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus, Consolo received the […]
Link to The Tablet’s Past Benefits Marine
A few days before last Christmas, I received an e-mail from a gentleman named Jack Fellin. Fellin played football at Mount St. Michael Academy, the Bronx, in the late 1950s and then played at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass. He asked me if I knew anything about Marine Corps Col. John Whalen […]
Molloy Hosts Players’ Day for Late Coach (with video)
Archbishop Molloy H.S., Briarwood, hosted a special Players’ Day to honor the legacy of the late Jack Curran, who coached basketball and baseball at the school for the past 55 years before passing away March 14. Coach Curran’s former players returned, including professional basketball players Sundiata Gaines and Kevin Joyce and New York Mets’ outfielder […]
NY Blood Center Honors Parishes
The Diocese of Brooklyn and the New York Blood Center (NYBC) acknowledged the efforts of parish blood drive coordinators and recruiters for the calendar year of 2012 on April 17 at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. The diocese contributed nearly 6,000 individual blood donations in 2012. Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Chappetto was on hand to honor […]
Msgr. Scharfenberger Installed As Territorial Vicar in Queens (with slideshow)
Msgr. Edward Scharfenberger, currently the pastor of St. Matthias parish, Ridgewood, was officially installed April 20 as the new episcopal vicar for Queens. He had been serving in that position since Jan. 31, but the installation Mass, celebrated by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at St. Matthias, was the formal public decree of his new post. Msgr. […]
Taso Throws Gem in Prep’s Win over Holy Cross
With the bases loaded an nobody out in the bottom of the seventh inning, St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, senior pitcher Taso Stathopoulos knew he had to bear down to finish off his strong effort. He did just that, allowing one unearned run in seven innings of work in the L’il Terriers’ 4-1 victory April […]
Jon Severe Signs with Fordham University
Though maybe it wasn’t as hyped as the epic LeBron James “decision” to join the Miami Heat in the summer of 2010, Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village, senior basketball guard Jon Severe has finally made his college decision. He will be staying right here in New York City as he chose to play this […]
Brotherly Love on the Cathedral Ball Field
In professional baseball history prior to this season, 88 sets of brothers have been teammates at some point in their careers, most notably Dizzy and Daffy Dean; Paul and Lloyd Waner; Phil and Joe Niekro; Roberto and Sandy Alomar; and Felipe, Jesus and Matty Alou. This year, outfielders Justin and B.J. Upton of the Atlanta […]
Decision To Sign Jackie Robinson Has Catholic Ties
On Page 108 of Diocese of Immigrants: The Brooklyn Catholic Experience, 1853-2003, an interesting fact is revealed about Jackie Robinson’s breaking of baseball’s color barrier in 1947, explored in the new movie “42.” Msgr. Raymond Campion, then the pastor of St. Peter Claver parish, Bedford-Stuyvesant, is said to have influenced Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner Branch Rickey […]