Immaculate Conception parish, Astoria, begins the celebration of its 90th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez will be the main celebrant of the Mass. The combined choirs (adult, children, contemporary, Filipino, Spanish and youth) will sing together during the liturgy, which will be in English. The entrance procession will […]
It was a day for celebration at St. Peter Catholic Academy as hundreds of students filed into the 23rd Avenue school building in Bensonhurst. The school welcomed over two dozen new students and saw an increase in the number of nursery and pre-k students, with enrollment numbers at those grade levels besting the anticipated count projected by school administration.
Archbishop Jorge Patron Wong, secretary for seminaries at the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy, understands the need to affirm, assist and support priests involved in vocation ministry.
The annual Bishop’s Dinner for Scouting was held Sept. 25 at El Caribe Country Club, Mill Basin. Two hundred thirty people attended. Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez represented Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and also received the Good Scout Award from the Catholic Committee on Scouting. Paul Stanton, chairman of the Catholic Committee, was the emcee. Former chairman, […]
Students from Brooklyn and Queens were among those who joined the People’s Climate March Sept. 21.
The 48th annual Ragamuffin Parade was held Sept. 27 in Bay Ridge with Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, diocesan vicar for development, as the grand marshal. Arlene Rutuelo, a community activist and owner of Nordic Delicacies, was honored as the Person of the Year.
On his first trip to the U.S. as the head of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak paid a pastoral visit to his Brooklyn flock at Resurrection Coptic Church in Park Slope Sept. 28. “Egypt is going out of this dark tunnel,” he said. “It needs time. We are trying.”
The diocesan Music Commission will sponsor its second annual Children’s Choir Festival at Good Shepherd Church, Marine Park, on Sunday, Nov. 16, at 3 p.m.
Father Rocky Hoffman, executive director of Relevant Radio, will be the guest on WOR radio’s “In The Arena” with Msgr. Kieran Harrington on Sunday morning, Sept. 28, at 8 a.m. For more about Relevant Radio, see Pages 4 and 12.
Councilman Eric A. Ulrich (R-Queens) and Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ) held a press conference on Monday, Sept. 22, to announce city funding to support bus service for seniors at four CCBQ centers in Howard Beach, Woodhaven, Rockaway Beach and Ozone Park.
