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Diocesan News
NET-TV Airs Documentary on Environment
New Evangelization Television (NET-TV) is televising its original production “Custody + Creation,” a moving environmental documentary about the care of creation and the role of the faithful. Assessing the state of the planet Earth and the imminent threat of climate change, “Custody + Creation” focuses on the Church’s reaffirmation of the biblical custody of the […]
Photos: Diocese Honors Sister-Jubilarians
Religious Sisters from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens celebrated their anniversaries of religious life at a Jubilee Mass and dinner with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston on Sunday, May 31.
Diocese Celebrates Feast of Corpus Christi
Under sunny skies, parishes around the diocese observed the Feast of Corpus Christi with outdoor processions through the streets of Brooklyn and Queens. Corpus Christi in Woodside In Woodside, a Corpus Christi procession was conducted in St. Sebastian’s parish June 7. Father Kevin Abels, pastor, carried the Blessed Sacrament in a monstrance through the streets of […]
Whitestone Parish Celebrates 50 Years of Serving Others
On Pentecost Sunday, Holy Trinity parish, Whitestone, celebrated its anniversary.
Thanks, Msgr. Healy
Mayor DeBlasio presented Msgr. Healy, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows parish, with a citation thanking him for his service.
Co-Naming Street for Bishop Is the Way to Go
By Michael Rizzo There’s a new name for 74th Avenue that runs alongside Holy Family parish in Fresh Meadows, between Utopia Parkway and 175th Street. It’s now co-named Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello Way, dedicated to the late prelate who served as the parish’s pastor from 2007 to 2010 and was an auxiliary bishop of the […]
Corpus Christi in Woodside
The eighth annual Corpus Christi outdoors procession sponsored by St. Sebastian’s parish, Woodside, will be conducted on Sunday, June 7, following the 1:15 p.m. Mass.
Remembering Bishop Catanello
The late Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello will be remembered at two separate occasions on two successive weekends. On Sunday, June 7, following the noon Mass at Holy Family Church, Fresh Meadows, Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello Way will be dedicated at the corner of 74th St. and Utopia Pkwy. The proposal to name the street after […]
Cathedral Club’s New President
Vincent LeVien, director of external affairs for DeSales Media Group, has been elected the 116th President of the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn. He will be sworn into office at the club’s annual installation dinner on Friday, June 19, at Gargiulo’s, Coney Island. “Vinny has always been and remains a tremendously supportive and generous contributor to […]