“I want all the attention on the Blessed Mother.” That is what John Cordi, Brooklyn native and lifelong parishioner at the Shrine Church of St. Bernadette in Dyker Heights, recently told people at the parish’s celebration of the Rosary of Our Lady of Pompeii.
Pete Stamm recently flew 5,000 miles to another continent, not for adventure or leisure, but for a simple drink of water. Just before the start of the school year, Stamm, a social studies teacher at Sacred Heart Catholic Academy in Glendale, flew to the African country of Ghana and made his way to the village of Konor-Kofe (population: 2,000) to witness a ceremony in which the village elders dedicated a new water well.
The 80th Annual Columbus Day Parade took place on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on Monday, Oct. 14, and the Diocese of Brooklyn put its stamp on the event in a big way.
CARROLL GARDENS — A fire erupted at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church in Carroll Gardens, causing damage to the church’s bell tower on Saturday, Oct. 12, officials from the Diocese of Brooklyn confirmed. The blaze, which was described by diocese officials as “a small electrical fire,” was quickly extinguished by the FDNY and […]
Blessed Carlo Acutis, the late Italian teenager who is set to become the Catholic Church’s first Millennial saint, has become an inspiring figure to young people if the reaction from the Diocese of Brooklyn is any indication.
As the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel approached, there was a sense of calm at Columbia University — a sharp contrast to last spring, when protests rocked the campus and led the university’s president to resign. Now, with the start of Israel’s incursion into Lebanon and Iran’s subsequent missile attack on Israel, there is concern that the campus could once again see protests. Members of the Columbia University community, however, don’t expect any new demonstrations to reach the same scale as those last spring, according to Father Roger Landry, the university’s Catholic chaplain.
Being a Catholic involves more than just showing up at church every Sunday. While many Catholics would like to fully integrate their faith into their daily lives, they aren’t quite sure how to do it. In an effort to help those who want to embrace the Church’s apostolic mission fully, DeSales Media Group, the communications and technology arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn, has created a webinar called “Religion to Reality.”
Pope Francis is getting a helping hand from the Diocese of Brooklyn and DeSales Media Group to get his message out to the faithful all over the world.
On a recent Monday afternoon at St. Francis College, students buried in their phones and laptops couldn’t help but get distracted by a procession making its way through the school’s corridors.
As the faith formation director at Christ the King Church, Robbin Johnson always has fresh ideas on how to engage her students, such as the carnival she organized last month to welcome students back from summer vacation.
