WILLIAMSBURG — Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello was removed as the Diocese of Brooklyn’s vicar for development on Nov. 3 after a provocative music video was shot at Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Brooklyn, where he is pastor. Pop musician Sabrina Carpenter released a music video to her song “Feather” on Oct. 31, which […]
The National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) announced the annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection is scheduled for Dec. 9-10 in the Diocese of Brooklyn parishes.
By 1988, Greenwich Village was “ground zero” of the AIDS crisis in the U.S., and Dr. Elizabeth Lutas was on the front lines. She was an attending physician at the old Saint Vincent’s Hospital, working with its Community Medicine Program.
Dr. Elizabeth Lutas darts about the classroom, brandishing visual aids and peppering her students with questions, testing their knowledge of salvation.
Police are investigating a case of vandalism in which someone broke off the hand of a statue of the Blessed Mother outside St. Andrew Avellino Church in Flushing during the overnight hours of Monday into Tuesday, Oct. 30-31.
During the past few weeks, the Catholic Church has called for its people across the world to pray for peace in the Middle East, as the Israel-Hamas war ravages on.
The power of prayer was on display at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James as the faithful gathered with Bishop Robert Brennan for a Day of Prayer for Peace on Friday, Oct. 27.
For 25 years, the Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens (CFBQ) has worked to financially support the Diocese of Brooklyn. At an Oct. 24 luncheon marking the nonprofit’s anniversary, an audience of 250 gathered to honor the people who cultivated its success and look toward its future.
Cristian Ortiz and his wife Crystal Rivera-Velez lost their baby daughter Valentina on Dec. 8, 2021. Rivera-Velez’s pregnancy seemed normal — right up until birth. In a heartbreaking twist for the couple, their baby was stillborn.
At a World Mission Sunday Mass Oct. 22 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, two Catholic schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn were honored for their contributions to the work of Catholic missions around the world.
