WARSAW, Poland (CNS) – Austria’s Vienna Archdiocese will press ahead with a major reorganization that will including liquidating most of its parishes over 10 years, despite objections from some local Catholics. The archdiocese’s 660 parishes will be merged over the next decade into around 150 larger parishes, each served by three to five priests and […]
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New Academy in S. Ozone Park
Hundreds of parents, children, teachers, staff, board members, and friends prayed together at a Mass to mark the transition of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, South Ozone Park, to a Catholic academy. Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano celebrated the Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church. “We gather here to celebrate a school community, […]
We Are Not Alone
by Father William R. Dulaney ISN’T IT AMAZING how certain people or situations leave a lasting impression on you? During a Saturday morning bike ride in Marine Park some 35 years ago, I came upon coaches and parents from St. Thomas Aquinas’ sports program hard at work removing broken glass and clearing debris from a […]
The Human Journey Revolves Around Relationships
by Father Robert Lauder When I like a book as much as I like W. Norris Clarke’s Person and Being, I try to focus in on key insights in the book so that I can communicate those insights to friends, who I hope will be as enthusiastic about the book as I am. As I […]
Over the Top!
The venerable “wall of separation” has served as a cautionary metaphor for limiting the mutually deleterious influences that both Church and State have had – historically – when either exceeds the bounds of its authority and competence. Whatever else might be said about how the Vice President of the United States conducted himself at the […]
When in Rome, Lesson Is in the Cobblestones
by Father John Cush Last April, I was asked by Bishop DiMarzio to begin studies for the doctorate in Sacred Theology in Rome, beginning this September. This came as a big surprise! I had been a student at the North American College as a seminarian and as a newly ordained priest and I had earned […]
Futures Dinner Raises $2M
The annual Scholarship Dinner conducted by the Futures in Education Foundation raised slightly more than $2 million to assist children in Catholic schools in Brooklyn and Queens. Entertainment was presented by school children from St. Kevin’s, Flushing; St. Nicholas of Tolentine, Jamaica; and Resurrection-Ascension, Rego Park.
Brooklyn’s Italians Celebrate Columbus Day
Italian-Americans celebrated their history, faith and culture on the streets of Bensonhurst at the 31st annual Brooklyn Columbus Parade, sponsored by the Federation of Italian American Organizations, last Saturday, Oct. 6. Festivities began with a 10:15 a.m. bilingual Mass celebrated in English and Italian by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst. Special concelebrants […]
Italians Honor Heritage With Mass in Flushing
The diocesan Italian Apostolate brought its annual celebration to Flushing, last Sunday, to honor Our Lady of Pompeii. Processing with banners of their favorite saints and a statue of Our Lady of Pompeii, the procession made its way through the streets of St. Mel’s parish prior to the celebration of Mass with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. […]
Pope Entrusts Year of Faith to Mary
LORETO, Italy (CNS) – During a visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto, Pope Benedict XVI formally entrusted to Mary the world Synod of Bishops and the Year of Faith. The pope was marking the 50th anniversary of Blessed John XXIII’s visit to the Marian shrine, about 175 miles northwest of Rome, when […]