Sights, Sounds, Smells Of Waiting in Advent
December 18, 2014
Christmas tree and Nativity scene lightings and festivals of Lessons and Carols are traditional ways parishes celebrate the Advent season...
Marie Elena Giossi
Borough Hall Demo: Mideast Persecution Is An Outrage
December 18, 2014
Snow flurries and chilly temperatures didn’t stop concerned citizens from assembling in Downtown Brooklyn’s Borough Hall Plaza to raise awareness...
Saintly Celebration at Greenpoint Parish
December 10, 2014
Ornate Indian parasols decorated the exterior of St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Church in Greenpoint, where hundreds of Indian Catholics rejoiced over...
Women’s Home Honors Bishop Sullivan’s Memory
November 26, 2014
Fourteen months ago, Lisa Cepeda needed someone to believe in her. At Providence House, she found a whole community of...
Statue’s Desecration Rocks Belle Harbor
November 12, 2014
A statue of Christ with outstretched arms that has long comforted the community of Belle Harbor was found desecrated early...
Historic Liturgy
November 6, 2014
Father James Cunningham, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus parish, Park Slope, greets parishioners after Mass in the chapel at...
Diocesan Cemeteries Host Field Masses
November 5, 2014
Wind whipped through a large white tent on the grounds of Mount St. Mary Cemetery, Flushing, as hundreds joined Bishop...
Halifax Sisters Support Three Local Charities
October 30, 2014
The Halifax Sisters of Charity are giving $10,000 to three ministries in which Sisters serve in Brooklyn and Queens –...
Sisters of Charity Mark 90 Years in New York (with slideshow)
October 30, 2014
More than 300 Sisters of Charity, Halifax, and their associates, along with clergy, family and friends, marked the 90th anniversary...
Relic of St. JP II Will Reside in Elmhurst
October 22, 2014
Hundreds gathered in Elmhurst to be among the first to see, touch and venerate a first-class relic of St. John...