More than 160 local couples celebrated significant wedding anniversaries with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the annual diocesan Wedding Anniversary Celebration, April 26.
Diocesan News
Local Redemptorist Never Expected to Know a Saint
Among the millions of people around the world who watched the canonization of two popes last Sunday was Father Thomas Forrest, C.Ss.R., a missionary priest from Brooklyn who knew Pope St. John Paul II personally.
Web Exclusive – Slide Show: Welcoming New Catholics
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio baptized four adults and confirmed 13 during the Easter Vigil at Transfiguration Church, Williamsburg. More than 1,100 people in Brooklyn and Queens entered into full communion with the Church by receiving their first sacraments at Easter Vigils held throughout the diocese.
Sorrowful Mother in Carroll Gardens
Auxiliary Bishop Paul Sanchez joined Msgr. Guy Massie, pastor; Father Cletus Forson, parochial vicar; and hundreds of past and present parishioners of Sacred Hearts-St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, for the parish’s decades-old Good Friday street procession. Led by a large red cross, the faithful recall Christ’s Passion by candlelight, carrying statues of the Body of […]
Walking the Walk in Glendale
Catholics from Glendale and Ridgewood walked from daylight into the night on Good Friday, accompanying the tomb of Jesus and the Sorrowful Mother.
Protecting The Tomb Of Christ
Polish Scout troops from Our Lady of Czestochowa-St. Casimir, Sunset Park, are privileged to stand as the honor guard at the tomb of Jesus during Holy Week.
Caminata – Jornadistas Display Faith on The Streets of Manhattan
Hundreds of youth came together in an act of faith and sacrifice on Holy Saturday to bring the message of Christ to different communities and cultures.
Ozone Park Parishioners Take Faith to the Streets (with slideshow)
More than 200 parishioners of all ages commemorated Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday by carrying a cross throughout the streets surrounding St. Teresa of Avila parish in South Ozone Park.
Polish Tradition
To commemorate Palm Sunday, the feast day on which Jesus rode in on a donkey into Jerusalem, the Polish community of Borough Park welcomed their Savior as their forefathers have done for centuries before them, with colorful handcrafted palms.
Albany’s New Bishop
In his first talk after being installed as the 10th Bishop of Albany, N.Y., Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger asked the people of his diocese “to bring the best out of me.” In return, he said, he would bring the best out of them.