Each year, The Tablet recognizes one outstanding graduate from each school as a way of saluting that year’s entire class. The scholars profiled here are young women and men who have distinguished themselves through academic achievement, Christian leadership and community involvement.
The diocesan Office of Education has announced that it is closing its Catherine Laboure Program that educates children with special needs
During a special Mass of Inclusion for People with Disabilities, Father John Murray, C.Ss.R., pointed out that in the New Testament, Jesus was reluctant to cure physical illness but was always eager to cure spiritual illness.
Cathedral College’s Class of 1966 gathered in Douglaston to celebrate the 45th ordination anniversary of those classmates who were ordained to the priesthood.
Just days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law on a southern island of the country to deal with the threat of radical Islamist militancy, the Filipino community at St. Nicholas of Tolentine, celebrated Santacruzan, a historical pageant traditionally held in the Philippines.
Sponsored by the diocesan School of Evangelization’s Pastoral Institute, 35 men and women completed the three-year course that prepares the laity to assume leadership roles in the Church.
Holy Cross H.S., Bayside, an all-boys secondary school sponsored by the Congregation of the Holy Cross, has announced that it will become a coed school.
The second collection in all parishes in Brooklyn and Queens this weekend will be for the benefit of Catholic communications programs in the United States and the diocese.
St. Andrew Avellino parish, Flushing, reports that 167 new parish volunteers have signed up after attending the “Planting Seeds, Growing Stewards” Ministry Fair and Expo.
Twelve men were ordained May 27 as permanent deacons by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights.
