In the 1950s, when Carlo Zaskorski was growing up in Park Slope, his parents took him to Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas Church every Sunday. They didn’t have to walk far to get there; they lived only two blocks away.

May was quite the eventful month for Zenith Taylor, who was inaugurated on May 22 as the first black woman president of the Queens County Bar Association.

Anna Baker, a parishioner of Our Lady of Victory Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant who has lived in her neighborhood for decades, knows first-hand New York City’s affordable housing crunch.

Thomas Berry Place, which has been housing migrants from Central and South America for the past two years, has opened its doors to people in need from the other side of the globe.

The Diocese of Brooklyn, known as the Diocese of Immigrants for the many nationalities attending Mass in its churches, took on even more of an international flavor when four cardinals from different parts of the world came to St. John’s University for a summit designed to train lay Catholics to become leaders and work for societal changes.

The Holy Family Parish community can begin to heal, now that their statue of the Child Jesus, left decapitated in a hate crime last month, has been repaired. Remnants of the damage to the statue, which sits just feet away from the church’s doors, can now barely be seen. 

Mary Giudice had never heard of St. Sharbel until her cousin, Deacon Michael Chirichella, introduced her to the obscure 19th-century Lebanese priest. The introduction came at a time when Mary could really use help from a saint.

Wisps of fragrant incense have slowly twisted toward heaven since the early days of Christianity.

It was the trip of a lifetime for a group of young Catholics from the Diocese of Brooklyn, who came away with enriching, unforgettable memories.