Across the country, colleges and universities are figuring out how to safely play sports, or whether to play them at all, amidst the pandemic.
Diocesan News
Deli Owner is ‘Arcangel’ to Homeless in Need of Shelter
A religious deli owner in Borough Park who started giving food and shelter to homeless men 15 years ago is still providing help, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bay Ridge Academy Ready to Open with STEAM-Oriented Classes and Safety Protocols
After updating its COVID-19 reopening plan on August 10, Bay Ridge Catholic Academy is ready to accept students to their all-new STEAM-oriented building.
Kids Care Crew Picks Up the Slack, and Trash From NYC Streets
On August 19, Kids Care Crew NYC (KCCNYC) took the initiative to show what taking care of a community looks like and cleaned Metropolitan Avenue.
Coronavirus’s Mental Toll on Diocesan Students and Families
While school procedures are changing, the unknown dangers might lie deeper than the surface level for the students. School Psychologist Christina Sama-Bommarito at The Mary Louis Academy in Jamaica Estates calls COVID-19 a perfect storm for children and adolescent mental health.
Only in Print: Summer Vocations Turn to Tech
At the Visitation Monastery in Bay Ridge, the nine nuns who live there make use of online services for virtual, online doctors’ appointments and to chat with candidates who are contemplating religious life.
Only in Print: ‘Shock’ of Pandemic Hit Lay Movements Hard
Survivors of COVID-19, or even those who never had it, can still suffer its residual ravages of confusion, isolation, and loneliness — sorrows shared by lay workers for the Diocese of Brooklyn. In the pandemic’s wake, they grieve losses of family, friends, and even clergy, but they also mourn how the disease robbed them of the fellowship they enjoyed while laboring in dozens of lay movements active in the diocese.
100 Years Ago: Looking Back at The Tablet’s Reports on a Woman’s Right to Vote
Even though some would claim the Church has not always been progressive when it comes to women’s rights, a look back at clippings from The Tablet would suggest something different.
Lebanon Faces Long Road Back, But Some Help has Arrived
The Aug. 4 explosion in Beirut has devastated Lebanon but Catholic relief organizations are on the ground providing emergency care.
Diocesan Schools, Academies Undergo Deep Cleaning Before School Resumes
In a few weeks, a majority of the 66 Catholic schools and academies in Brooklyn and Queens plan to physically reopen under Plan A (100% in-person instruction), with the flexibility to adopt Plan B (hybrid instruction) or Plan C (100% distance learning through the new St. Thomas Aquinas Distance Learning Catholic Program) quickly if COVID-19 cases arise.