While most students across New York State are getting used to the new cell phone ban, children at one Diocese of Brooklyn school have more freedom. Xaverian High School does not order students to hand over their cell phones when they enter the building.
The New York State Catholic Conference (NYSCC) is urging Catholics to reach out to Congress to oppose changes to the “premium tax credit” eligibility, which it claims will threaten health insurance coverage for 450,000 New Yorkers.
Ten Catholic academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn have new principals at the helm this school year.
Father Hilaire Belizaire, pastor of St. Jerome Parish in East Flatbush, described the ordination of 10 Franciscan priests in Uganda as one of the most powerful experiences of his recent pilgrimage to Africa.
On the 24th anniversary of Sept. 11, young parishioners of Blessed Trinity Parish in Breezy Point, Queens spent the afternoon visiting families of local residents who perished in the 2001 terror attack.
The Diocese of Brooklyn is denying reports that it plans to develop a high-rise apartment building on the site of Guardian Angel Church in Brighton Beach. A portion of the property is being sold, but “the sale of this vacant parcel has no effect on the church building,” said John Quaglione, a spokesman for the diocese.
Traditions can be broken, even at the Great Irish Fair.
Volunteers at the Life Center of New York in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn a pro-life facility, stood outside a Planned Parenthood clinic with other pro-life supporters praying the rosary in memory of aborted babies.
On Sept. 11, 24 years after the attack, the FDNY Battalion 57 marched from Manhattan across the Brooklyn Bridge, passing firehouses on their way to the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. Bishop Brennan met them and walked in solidarity, honoring the fallen alongside them.
The start of the school year at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Academy in Astoria also marks the debut of the academy’s new library.
