As a hospital chaplain, Father Bryan Carney regularly encountered death while giving last rites, but just two months ago, his own mortality loomed.

Almost 2,800 years ago, the young King Ahaz, ruler of Judah, faced a brutal invasion — an event that seemingly had nothing to do with modern celebrations of Christ’s birth at Christmas.

The Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was marked by a personal gift from Pope Francis, a Christmas tree lighting, a newly renovated gift shop, and much more at the only parish in the Diocese of Brooklyn with her namesake.

The official portraits of seven Romanian bishops, taken sometime before the late 1940s, are a startling contrast to their prison mugshots.

Personal shoppers are usually a luxury service found only in high-end stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, but on Dec. 12, they were found in a church basement of all places. 

With the flip of a switch in Grand Army Plaza on Dec. 13, the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony became a dazzling display of light and harmony. 

When a 12-year-old girl asked the Make a Difference Christmas organization for oil for Christmas, its founder, Thomas Flood, said he initially thought she was referring to body oil or oil for a diffuser. 

When Bishop Robert Brennan extended an invitation to lunch, little did he realize that 1,100 people would show up.