The Sacred Heart of Jesus statue stolen from outside Saints Peter and Paul Rectory on the Southside of Williamsburg was returned to the parish on Friday morning, May 6. Just hours after thieves took off with it in the wee hours of last Saturday morning, a Brooklyn man found it in a trash can outside his home.
The results are in! Students from Brooklyn and Queens sent entries of all shapes and sizes for The Tablet’s annual “Christ Is Risen Art Contest.”
Hundreds praised the Lord in word and song when Koinonia John the Baptist New York presented its seventh New Evangelization Congress. Koinonia Community founder, Father Ricardo Argañaraz, was present.
After eight years serving on the island of Jamaica, Bishop Neil Edward Tiedemann, C.P., says it is “a joy to come home” to the Brooklyn Diocese.
Almost 1,000 immigrants to Brooklyn and Queens joined Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the annual diocesan celebration of World Migration Day, April 30 at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights.
“If we pray, God hears us. God has mercy and during this Year of Mercy, God will have mercy on Ecuador.” – Mass paritipant
The first annual meeting of Polish catechetical leaders with Auxiliary Bishop Witold Mroziewski took place April 12 at the Diocesan Office Building at 310 Prospect Park West.
The Rosary Ministry Society of St. Helen’s parish, Howard Beach, sponsored a trip to the Holy Doors of Mercy at the Basilica of Regina Pacis in Bensonhurst.
The Diocese of Brooklyn announced the news of the appointment of Bishop Neil Tiedemann, C.P., by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, as an auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn. Bishop Tiedemann returns to his native diocese after serving as bishop of the Diocese of Mandeville, Jamaica
At a reception in Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio honored the parishes that have made significant contributions to the New York Blood Center over the past year.
