Religious Sisters from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens celebrated their anniversaries of religious life at a Jubilee Mass and dinner with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.
Author: Marie Elena Giossi
Inclusion Was Theme Of Day of Recollection
For Patricia Guinyard and Gloria Casanova, being able to receive the sacrament of reconciliation in their native tongue is a rare gift. Last Saturday, these women had the benefit of experiencing the sacrament in the language most natural to them – American Sign Language (ASL).
Pope Reappoints Local Priest as Interreligious Dialogue Advisor
Pope Francis recently reappointed Brooklyn priest Father James Massa to another five-year term as one of 50 advisors to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Couples Celebrate 6,309 Years of Marriage
More than 160 local couples celebrated significant wedding anniversaries with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the annual diocesan Wedding Anniversary Celebration, April 26.
Local Redemptorist Never Expected to Know a Saint
Among the millions of people around the world who watched the canonization of two popes last Sunday was Father Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R., a missionary priest from Brooklyn who knew Pope St. John Paul II personally.
Sorrowful Mother in Carroll Gardens
Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez joined Msgr. Guy Massie, pastor; Father Cletus Forson, parochial vicar; and hundreds of past and present parishioners of Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, for the parish’s decades-old Good Friday street procession. Led by a large red cross, the faithful recall Christ’s Passion by candlelight, carrying statues of the Body of […]
Ordination Day: Bishop Scharfenberger
Scenes from the ordination and installation of Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger as the 10th Bishop of Albany.
Bishop’s Late Nephew Predicted His Elevation
by Marie Elena Giossi As they celebrate the blessing of having a bishop in the family, Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger’s loved ones can’t help but wonder if there was some heavenly petitioning behind his appointment. On the morning of the announcement, Dr. Dennis Scharfenberger, a Warwick, N.Y.-based family physician, received word via a 6 a.m. […]
Family: Future Bishop – Anything But Ordinary
It is not every day that an altar boy from Ridgewood grows up to be a bishop. And when that boy-turned-bishop is a humble, hard-working monsignor, it is a great blessing – not only for the Church but also for the people closest to his heart.
Women’s Conference Looks at Mary as Model
The greatest woman who ever walked the earth – that is how Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio described the Blessed Mother as he addressed nearly 300 women at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center in Douglaston, March 22.