Instead of stepping into a brick-and-mortar building to receive assistance from Catholic Charities of Brooklyn & Queens (CCBQ), clients can now walk into the agency’s RV stationed outside a designated church in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
Diocesan News
Bay Ridge Schools Plan for Combined Academy
School officials project that Bay Ridge Catholic Academy will open with 400 students, which would make it one of the biggest elementary schools in the diocese.
Only in Print: Students Rally in Prayer to Blessed Mother | November 9, 2019
Even at a relatively young age, Maya Wierciszewski, an eighth-grader at Notre Dame Catholic Academy, Ridgewood, realizes the importance of praying the rosary for the unborn.
St. Jude Statue at Parish In Williamsburg Vandalized
WILLIAMSBURG — Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Williamsburg was vandalized before dawn on Nov. 3, as a suspect damaged a $5,000 statue of St. Jude located outside the church’s rectory.
Only in Print: Masses in Spanish Are Popular, Now Common, in Diocese | November 9, 2019
Heavy rain didn’t stop hundreds of people from packing into the pews at Our Lady of Sorrows, Corona, for a standing room-only Sunday Mass on Oct. 27.
Arrest Made in Flushing Church Assault
A woman was punched as she was leaving St. Michael’s Church in Flushing on Oct. 28, the New York City Police Department said.
A True ‘All Saints’ Day in Queens
“We hope to not only dress like the saints on the outside, but to be saints on the inside,” said Father Frank Tumino, the pastor at St. Thomas the Apostle.
Loved Ones Remembered at All Souls’ Day Mass at Diocese’s Catholic Cemeteries
The Missionaries of Charity sisters joined hundreds of the faithful gathered for field Masses held each year at the four Catholic cemeteries operated by the Diocese of Brooklyn on All Souls Day — a day when Catholics all over the world attend Mass and visit their deceased loved ones at the cemetery.
Cathedral Prep and Seminary Installs New Rector
On Nov.1, when the Catholic Church celebrated the communion of saints on All Saints’ Day, the community of seminarians from the four different diocesan schools of formation witnessed Father James Kuroly installed as the new rector of Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary.
Two Bay Ridge Catholic Schools to Merge
St. Anselm Catholic Academy and Holy Angels Catholic Academy will merge to form Bay Ridge Catholic Academy, the Diocese of Brooklyn announced on Oct. 31.