In 1915, a group of black Catholics met at a home on Pacific Street in Prospect Heights, across from what is today the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph. The Spanish Colonial-style church with two bell towers was completed just three years earlier to replace the previous parish church, which was built in 1861, the same year the American Civil War began.
Margaret Tumelty’s commitment to her bi-weekly cold plunge into the Atlantic Ocean provides her with more than just the health benefits she believes the activity offers. It also helps strengthen her faith.
The sisterhood at The Mary Louis Academy will be welcoming a new group of “little sisters” come September. The all-girls Catholic high school is set to open a middle school for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders for the start of the 2025-2026 school year.
Mely Borgonia remembers feeling overwhelmed the first time her godmother invited her to a 2,000 Hail Marys devotion at the home of a family friend in 1992. Today, 33 years later, she leads the same devotion at her church, St. Sebastian in Woodside.
Read the address Father Michael Bruno, dean of seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary and College, delivered to attendees at the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn’s 125th-anniversary dinner on Feb. 6.
For the past 125 years, the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn has given back to the community. The Catholic lay organization’s 125th-anniversary dinner, held at El Caribe on Feb. 6, was no different.
Bishop Robert Brennan described the Black History Month Mass at St. Thérèse Lisieux Church as an “uplifting” opportunity to be together, noting the Church symbolizes family, and, therefore, Catholics must stand together in solidarity when a member is discriminated against.
Capt. Jonathan Campos, the pilot of the doomed American Eagle Flight 5342 that collided with a military helicopter in midair over Washington, D.C., on Jan. 29, was remembered during his funeral as a dedicated professional who had always dreamed of flying.
Faced with declining enrollment, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy in Brooklyn will permanently close at the end of this current school year. The Diocese of Brooklyn announced the decision by the academy’s board of directors on Feb. 11.
Drawing from personal experience with her father, Ana Tagle said she understands the challenges of being a caregiver for a loved one with dementia.
