Planned Parenthood has voiced solidarity to the Black Lives Matter movement, prompting pro-life leaders from African American communities to challenge the abortion provider with this question: “Will you confront the iniquity that your abortion practices perpetrate against Black lives? Will you fight the racism that targets Black lives in the womb?”
Auxiliary Bishop James Massa was officially installed as the new rector of St. Joseph’s Seminary and College during a Mass in the seminary’s chapel on the Yonkers campus on Sept. 13.
Good Shepherd Catholic Academy’s Home School Association President Kathleen Tomassetti has had a lot on her plate while raising six children amidst a pandemic. She currently has five kids enrolled in GSCA’s universal pre-k and Grades 2, 3, 6, and 7, and a freshman at Xaverian High School.
First responders who risked their lives on Sept. 11, 2001 and who worked on the recovery effort for months later, are susceptible to COVID-19. One widow, who lost her firefighter husband in April shares her story.
The opening of schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn went smoothly, according to Msgr. David Cassato, vicar for Catholic Schools.
This year’s Feast Day Mass for St. Peter Claver in Brooklyn, according to the homilist, was a momentous step toward healing “America’s original sin” — racism.
Last Spring, about 1,000 people planned to complete sacraments at the Easter Vigil, but it got canceled because of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Diocese leaders directed the parishes to figure out how to administer sacraments to these people. The perishes delivered, with special efforts from their education directors.
The summer of 2020 certainly looked and felt different as pandemic-related lockdowns, closures, and quarantines unfolded. Cheering on your favorite baseball players from the bleachers turned into watching professional teams play a shortened season from your couch.
When it comes to personal health and safety, some teachers are making sure they are doing everything they possibly can to keep themselves and others safe while working.
Kristi Giacalone was facing hard times because of COVID-19 and struggling to come up with the money to pay tuition for her two daughters at St. Francis Preparatory High School.
