The news that Visitation Academy is closing forever came as a shock to its students and parents, but there are plans to open another Catholic school in Bay Ridge that can offer them a port in the storm. Hall Academy, a high school located less than a mile away from Visitation Academy, is making plans to expand its mission and create a middle school for sixth, seventh, and eighth grades from Visitation Academy.
Author: Paula Katinas
Thinking of Becoming a Catholic? Start With an OCIA Meeting
Celeste Grillo poured me a cup of Lipton tea and in a soft voice, told me how she helps new Catholics navigate their journey into the faith.
St. John’s Bread & Life’s Lenten Mission: 40 Days, 40,000 Meals for the Hungry
Dawn Brabham has been coming to St. John’s Bread & Life for many years to pick up hot nutritious meals to help her get through the day.
Diocese of Brooklyn Prepares for Triumphant Palm Sunday Procession
Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights is normally busy with vehicular traffic but on Palm Sunday, March 24, it will be filled with foot traffic — and lots of it — as Catholics from around the diocese join Bishop Robert Brennan in a grand procession.
Life Altering Experience: From Police Officer to Diocese of Brooklyn Deacon
Lent, the period of reflection and repentance as Catholics prepare for the coming of Easter, is also known as a season of change. Deacon Dan Maher, of Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians Church in Woodside, could probably tell you a lot about change.
Religious Sisters Offer Affordable Housing to Students
Rhema Khairnar isn’t a nun, but she does live in a convent. Khairnar, who is studying for her PhD in pharmacology at St. John’s University, is one of a handful of young people living in Immaculate Conception Convent in Jamaica Estates as part of a program sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood to provide affordable housing for students and young professionals.
Tunnel to Towers Foundation Buys and Will Preserve S.I. Alba House Shrine
A site housing a Catholic shrine that many people visited to pray and light candles of remembrance in the aftermath of 9/11 has been purchased by a nonprofit organization founded in memory of a firefighter who was killed that day.
Catholic Church’s View on Cremation: ‘Treat With Dignity, in Life and Death’
Death, and burial, are lively topics of conversation in the Catholic Church these days. With increasing numbers of people opting for cremation over the more traditional full-body burial, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the department within the Vatican responsible for defending Catholic teaching, recently clarified the Church’s position on cremation.
Missing Woman’s Kin Pray for Her After 48 Years
Milagros Perez Peralta will turn 70 years old this coming August 29. Or perhaps not. The sad thing is, her family isn’t sure.
Queens Parents Wait Through Lent, Until Easter, to Baptize Their Daughter
Claire McKenna gazes lovingly at her 2-month-old daughter Leah as the little one rests snugly in her arms. Nearby, McKenna’s husband, Jesus Bravo, is supervising snack time for their daughter Chloe, 2, and son Paul, 1.