On most weekends, Martine Michel can usually be found at the lectern at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, where she has served as a lector for four years. But on Saturday, May 11, she was on the street outside the co-cathedral manning a basketball hoop.
In 2024, approximately two million people will be diagnosed with cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute. To recognize those currently fighting the disease and its survivors, the Diocese of Brooklyn celebrated a Mass of Healing on Tuesday, May 7 at St. Joseph Church, where dozens of parishioners received the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick alongside the Eucharist.
A small church in Long Island City serves around 400 people every Sunday from a hidden treasure: liturgical furnishings once touched by a saint.
Veronica Warszawska is from Brooklyn, but her faith and Polish heritage inspired her visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday, May 1, to venerate relics of nine people murdered 80 years ago — the Ulma family.
Deacon Tobechukwu Offiah has a degree in accounting, and so it would make sense that numbers are a big part of his life.
Every Tuesday morning, a little bit of Italy comes to Our Lady of Grace Church in Gravesend. The friendly tour guide is Jeanne Nisi, a retired educator who teaches an Italian language class once a week for free.
Georgette Lyons, director of religious education at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Bayside, has vivid memories of her first Communion in 1954.
Nico Bocchino remembers his first day as a sixth grader at Xaverian Genesis Catholic Academy three years ago. It’s his favorite memory from middle school, being welcomed by the teachers and seeing so many friendships being created.
Realizing the need for a tougher crackdown on shops dealing illegal marijuana, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams last month unveiled a unified front to thwart the proliferation of unlicensed cannabis retailers across the city and state.
Good Friday this year had special significance for two parishes in Bay Ridge – Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church on Ridge Boulevard and 83rd St and St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church on 81st St. and Ridge Boulevard.
