Matthew Schiller knows all too well the kind of difference Bright Christmas makes in people’s lives. Having worked as The Tablet’s business manager from 1973 to 1993, he was directly involved with the campaign and learned firsthand how the funds raised would help put a toy in a child’s hands and a smile on their face.
Shhh! Don’t tell Santa, but his elves don’t work at the North Pole. They really work in Howard Beach. And they work with Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens.
Author Joe Benevento, a Queens native, believes there is much more to learn from St. Joseph, which he conveys in his new novel, “My Perfect Wife, Her Perfect Son.”
Bishop Robert Brennan and Cardinal Timothy Dolan were part of an interfaith leadership group that recently met with survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, offering support and hearing the survivors’ accounts from that tragic day.
Today, Dec. 18, the Diocese of Brooklyn joins the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Rockville Centre in celebrating Reconciliation Monday.
Father Samuel Mwiwawi and his six siblings didn’t experience Christmas Day Mass in Kenya until his parents settled in his father’s ancestral homeland of Taita, about 75 miles northwest of Mombasa.
Five young people from Brooklyn gained 12,000 new friends Nov. 16-18 in Indianapolis for a crash course on how to embrace their identities in the “mystical body” also known as the Catholic Church.
Amberleigh Celestin, a seventh grade student at St. Catherine of Genoa-St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Academy, has a Christmas wish. The wish is for everyone in the world to be safe, and it’s a wish she wanted to share with everyone in the country.
Bishop Robert Brennan joined hundreds of Jewish people at Grand Army Plaza on Dec. 14, the eighth night of Hanukkah, for the final lighting of “Brooklyn’s Largest Menorah.”
Torchbearers fanned out across Brooklyn and Queens on Tuesday, Dec. 12, holding their flames aloft for all to see as they walked along the streets. But they weren’t Olympic torchbearers. Instead, they hailed from dozens of churches across the two boroughs as part of the Diocese of Brooklyn’s celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
