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.
The St. Kateri Institute, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is raising money to replace a bell blasted from one of the towers of the Urakami Cathedral in the Aug. 9, 1945 attack on Nagasaki.
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.
As the campus minister at Queens College, Omar Cortez can’t help but smile when he thinks about the rapid growth of the Newman Center, the Catholic meeting space in the campus’ Student Union building.
During a recent visit to Brownsville, Bishop Robert Brennan briefly traded in his mitre for a hard hat. Bishop Brennan was in Brownsville on Sept. 19 for the groundbreaking of the Gail P. Duke Senior Residence, a 13-story, 141-unit affordable housing building at 350 Livonia Ave. sponsored by Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ).
Iraqi Catholics faced persecution in 2014 when ISIS marked their homes with an “N.” The graffiti alerted gunmen that the people living there were followers of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene. The ensuing violence and chaos is the backdrop for Paul Mascia’s new book, “Nazar’s Journey.”
For Santiago Gutierrez, having his arrangement of the Haitian hymn “Mari Manman Nou” performed at Lincoln Center is a dream come true. The multi-talented composer in residence at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph has a unique and diverse resume that includes awards for composing, performing, and producing traditional Latin music.
In 1924, Calvin Coolidge became the nation’s 30th president after a landslide victory, the Statue of Liberty was designated as a National Monument, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade stepped off for the first time. Meanwhile, a small group of religious women arrived in Queens to establish the U.S. Province of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk.
