For many who were children on Sept. 11, 2001, the day is filled with memories of learning about the attacks from their teachers. Some of those children grew up to be teachers themselves. The Tablet spoke to four of them to learn how they plan to teach 9/11 to their students on the 25th anniversary.
For three decades, visitors to Aqueduct Racetrack, who came to place bets or just to watch thoroughbreds run, passed a bronze plaque commemorating the time the venue was visited by a saint.
On September 9, 2026 The Tablet’s walking pilgrimage through the Diocese of Brooklyn marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Military veterans and members of the Knights of Columbus gathered for a prayer service for Servant of God Father Vincent Capodanno on Sept. 4, the 59th anniversary of his death. Fr. Capodanno, a navy chaplain, was killed in the Vietnam War.
When the New York Giants signed Odell Beckham Jr. this offseason, I thought, “Wow, the prodigal son is returning.”
Altar servers from the Diocese of Brooklyn were honored during the annual Mass of Thanksgiving for Altar Servers and Vocations, celebrated on Aug. 28 at St. Finbar Church in Bath Beach.
It’s the end of an era in Williamsburg, where a staple of the community may be closing its doors after more than a century. American Wood Column Corporation, a 110-year-old family business that’s turned timber into everything from pulpits to Hollywood props, faces closure.
After 30 years of feeding people on the Sisters of St. Joseph campus in Brentwood, Long Island, Joseph Pacifico Sr. is giving the congregation a different kind of helping — in the form of a $1.5 million donation.
Msgr. Robert Romano, pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Brooklyn and a NYPD chaplain, recalls what it was like to be at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Residents of the Rockaways are raising money to fund the restoration of “Navigator Star,” a mosaic in Tribute Park honoring the victims of 9/11. The mosaic was heavily damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
