Twenty-four of the 33 graduating students at Cristo Rey Brooklyn H.S. are first-generation college attendees… St. Patrick Catholic Academy held its graduation ceremony inside St. Patrick Church, Bay Ridge, June 13… St. Patrick Catholic Academy held its graduation ceremony inside St. Patrick Church, Bay Ridge, June 13.
Father Frank Spacek, chaplain at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village, installed six new extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion at the End of Year School Mass.
The parish of St. Mary Magdalene Church, Springfield Gardens, commissioned and blessed nine new altar servers.
Barely a month after the Frederick Foundation contacted Catholic Charities Brooklyn Queens wishing to donate $150,000 to parish-based food pantries, Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez stood in St. Helen Church, Howard Beach, ready to give out 76 checks, each addressed to a different parish, to help feed struggling New Yorkers.
Fully aware that being a disciple of Christ means embracing the cross, Francisco Hernández stood before Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros and bound himself to Church service as a permanent deacon.
Photos, brief biographies and details of the first Masses of thanksgiving of the men.
God gave Father Carlos C. Velásquez, 26, the gift of an early vocation.
A life of faith is the fullest kind of life there is for Father Anthony Francis Rosado, 30.
Haitian-born Father Robert Pierre-Louis aspires to be “a priest according to the heart of Mary and Jesus.”
Ordination day will be the culmination of a nearly lifelong journey for Peter John Penton, 55.
