Irish leaders and friends came together for a festive dinner dance to install the 2019 Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade honorees at Antun’s Restaurant in Queens Village. Sashes were distributed to the men and women who will lead the line of march this weekend. This year’s honorees include Grand Marshal Thomas A. Callahan; Honorary […]
Once again, the celebration of Christ’s Passion and Resurrection draws near. In our preparation for Easter, the Church invites us to observe the penitential and grace-filled season of Lent, which commences on March 6 with the observance of Ash Wednesday.
The Nigerian Igbo community at St. Fortunata, East New York, celebrated the parish’s annual remembrance of the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt last weekend.
The statue was stolen from St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Park Slope on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Surveillance video showed an unidentified man wearing a hoodie sweatshirt walk into the church, pick up the statue and simply walk out. Not realizing at first that it had been stolen, church employees and Father Willy Kingsley Ndi, parish administrator, began to search for it. Eventually, it was found in the trash can across the street.
Fathers Sebastian Tarciziu Andro, Raynolds Basilious, O.C.D., Timothy John Lambert, Jose Evangelista Lopez and Felix Sanchez joined the ranks of the Brooklyn Diocese and were no longer members of their previous dioceses by the process of incardination.
Better, more beautiful and blessed. Those words describe both the renovations and the atmosphere at the Feb. 24 rededication Mass at St. Dominic Church in Bensonhurst.
Energetic youth from across the eastern seaboard gathered at Our Lady of Refuge in Flatbush Feb. 23 to participate in the annual Youth Rally sponsored by The National Center of the Haitian Apostolate and The Brooklyn Haitian Ministry. The 2019 theme was “Lead and Be Fruitful.”
Using a ribbon created from freshly grown rosemary, St. Matthias Catholic Academy (SMCA), Ridgewood, recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil its NY Sun Works Hydroponic STEM Lab. It is the first Catholic elementary school in New York City to build a hydroponics lab.
With a few modifications to her grandmother’s recipe, Lisa Cotoggio started her own business last year – Grandma’s Cheesecake Sandwiches. Even though her business has been up and running for only about a year, she makes sure to take time out of her schedule to give back as often as she can.
As chaplain of St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Father Ralph Edel’s job is to strengthen the faith of each student so it lasts a lifetime.
