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Diocesan News
New Jersey Diocese Emulates ‘Big City Catholics,’ Using Podcasts as an Evangelization Tool
When Father Kevin Sweeney became the bishop of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, in 2020, he bid farewell to the Diocese of Brooklyn after serving 20 years as a priest here. The transition did not mean, however, that he stopped looking to his longtime home for ideas and inspiration in his own diocese.
World Youth Day Pilgrims Reunite, Reconnect at Holy Hour and Reunion
It’s been around five months since 300 young pilgrims took the trek from the Diocese of Brooklyn to Lisbon, Portugal, for World Youth Day.
Diocese of Brooklyn Remembers Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
FLATLANDS — Michele Guerrier was 10 years old when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on his hotel room balcony in Memphis in 1968. She had just recently immigrated to Prospect Heights from Haiti and was faced with, for the first time, the reality of racism in the United States. It […]
Critics: New York State’s Adoption Restrictions Causing ‘a Lot of Pain’
by Tablet Staff PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Adoptive parents in New York and those seeking to adopt children are criticizing a restriction by New York’s Office of Children and Family Services that limits the financial support adoptive families can give birth mothers in New York and out of state. The agency said these women can only […]
Catholic Faith Formation Is An ‘All in the Family’ Affair in Diocese
Dawn and Randolph Padilla enrolled their 10-year-old son Christopher in the School of Religion at St. Anastasia Church in Douglaston to put him on a proper track for Catholic faith formation, but that’s not all they’re doing.
TREK OF A LIFETIME: Migrants Survived a Dangerous Panamanian Jungle, Face an Uncertain Future Here
Marlin and Josibel knew the 5,000-mile hike from their homes in Venezuela to the United States would be tough, especially traveling with children. But the most difficult part was crossing a deadly stretch of Panama’s jungle — the Darién Gap.
Caring Deacons Step Up to Give Asylum-Seekers Much-Needed Help
Deacons, partnering with Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens, help recent immigrants navigate the U.S. immigration system, obtain work permits, and apply for political asylum.
Deanery Takes Floyd Bennett Migrant Camp Under Its Wing
After Venezuelan migrant Marlimar Gomez bundled up her 4-year-old daughter, two older children, and herself against the frigid southeastern Brooklyn cold, they set out from the tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field for the walk — more than 4 miles — to the nearest neighborhood, where she hoped to find food, warmer clothes, and, perhaps, toys for the children.
Joseph Esposito, Former NYPD Chief of Department and Valued Diocese of Brooklyn Member, Passes Away at 73
Every day of his 45-year NYPD career, former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito put on his uniform and went to work eager to serve the people of New York. Even during the city’s darkest days, such as 9/11 and its aftermath, he was on the front lines.