When Laura DePalma worked as a video editor and television producer for DeSales Media Group, she kept rubber ducks on her desk to make her co-workers smile. One colleague, Evan Bellouny, liked to go to her desk and rearrange the ducks when she wasn’t looking. 

Before Rev. Billy Graham, there was Bishop Fulton Sheen. In the early 1950s, when comedy legends Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason ruled the airwaves of the nascent television industry, Bishop Sheen became a superstar, hosting a show that drew 30 million viewers a week and made him the first televangelist. 

When Erin K. McAtee lifts her brush to the canvas to paint, she considers it an act of prayer.

As executive director of The Bridge to Life, Francesca Yellico spends her days helping mothers who choose life for their babies over abortion. Operating out of Bridge’s College Point headquarters, she gathers baby clothes, formula, diapers, and other things a new mother would need for her baby.

A man repeatedly hurled paver stones at a historic statue of Mary early Tuesday morning Sept. 24 at Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish. Surveillance video recorded the attack, which severed the hands and gouged the face of the statue at around 3 a.m., according to the pastor, Father Victor Bolaños. 

The words of Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary Rector and President Father James Kuroly captured the theme of the high school’s third annual Rector-President’s Dinner on Sept. 19 in Williamsburg, honoring eight past and present vocation directors for the Diocese of Brooklyn.

At the Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent diaconate convocation, deacons were urged to heed the words of St. Pope John Paul II to “be not afraid” in preaching the Gospel message. 

The new chapel in Terminal C in the renovated LaGuardia Airport is now officially open for prayer.