Elizabeth Palombo didn’t know much about St. Elizabeth of the Trinity before she attended a symposium at St. Joseph’s Seminary and College in Yonkers that focused on the life and influence of the French saint.

Dominique Pastrana went on the journey of a lifetime this July and came home as a changed person. 

Gerard Connolly’s lifelong dreams are all about to come true in just one night.

The Diocese of Brooklyn is bucking a nationwide trend when it comes to the racial and ethnic makeup of its permanent deacons. Figures show that the international flavor of the diocese’s diaconate stands in sharp contrast to figures across the U.S.

In the 1950s, when Carlo Zaskorski was growing up in Park Slope, his parents took him to Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church every Sunday. They didn’t have to walk far to get there; they lived only two blocks away.

Thomas Berry Place, which has been housing migrants from Central and South America for the past two years, has opened its doors to people in need from the other side of the globe.

The Diocese of Brooklyn, known as the Diocese of Immigrants for the many nationalities attending Mass in its churches, took on even more of an international flavor when four cardinals from different parts of the world came to St. John’s University for a summit designed to train lay Catholics to become leaders and work for societal changes.

Mary Giudice had never heard of St. Sharbel until her cousin, Deacon Michael Chirichella, introduced her to the obscure 19th-century Lebanese priest. The introduction came at a time when Mary could really use help from a saint.