by Marie Elena Giossi Water surged through the streets of Rockaway Park and Broad Channel on the night Hurricane Sandy hit the Rockaway Peninsula. Homes and buildings were damaged and destroyed, displacing residents, school children and Special Olympians. “I never expected the amount of damage, devastation and the complete change that has taken place on […]
On Tuesday, October 29th at 7:30 p.m., on the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, family and friends of one of the hardest hit parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn will gather for a commemoration and healing Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, located at 1920 New Haven Avenue, Far Rockaway. After the […]
Wednesday, Oct. 16 was a busy day at the diocesan headquarters in Park Slope. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio celebrated a Mass commemorating the 10th anniversary of his installment as bishop of Brooklyn. Bishop DiMarzio also installed Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Chappetto as vicar general and Father James Massa as moderator of the curia. Bishop DiMarzio said that […]
by Marie Elena Giossi The parish community of St. Luke, Whitestone, celebrated the dedication of its newly restored and renovated church at a solemn Mass of Dedication on Sunday, Oct. 20. “Today is a day of thanksgiving; it’s a day of joy, and it’s a day of renewal,” said Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Chappetto, who presided […]
Bishop Kazimierz Gurda, auxiliary bishop of Kielce, Poland, was the guest speaker at the annual diocesan Polish Heritage Mass held Oct. 20 at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Greenpoint. The theme for the event was “The Family in Migration School of Faith and Life.” Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio joined the members of the Polish Apostolate for […]
Brother Leonard Conway, O.S.F., who has spent the last 30 years as principal of St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, has been named the first-ever president of the Queens school. Taking over as principal is Patrick J. McLaughlin, a member of the faculty for the past 30 years. The Prep’s board of trustees adopted the new […]
by Beth Griffin Laughingly describing himself as America’s most famous Catholic, who as an 11-year-old altar boy put in his time “with the uppin’ and the downin,’ the crissin’ and the crossin,’” Stephen Colbert headlined the 68th annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation held Oct. 17 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan. Colbert, […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Over 500 boys and girls from Brooklyn and Queens came together to pray the rosary with retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy Sansaricq at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn, on Wednesday morning, Oct. 9. “You may be asking yourself ‘Why, why have you brought me here,’” Bishop Sansaricq said to the children. “We […]
The annual Scholarship Dinner, conducted each year by the Futures in Education Foundation, took place Oct. 9 in the main ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. More than $2 million was raised to support Catholic education in Brooklyn and Queens. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio congratulated the honorees – N.Y.C. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, seen […]
The second half of the Shining Stars Awards were presented to members of migrant apostolates on Oct. 11 at Gargiulo’s Restaurant, Coney Island. Auxiliary Bishop Raymond Chappetto, Msgr. Ronald Marino, vicar for migrant and ethnic apostolates, and Father Patrick J. Keating, CEO of Catholic Migration Services, presided. Honored were Betty Francis, Indian Latin Rite; Vaclav […]
