The worldwide observance of the Year for Consecrated Life proclaimed by Pope Francis will open in the diocese with prayer services in Brooklyn and Queens. Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge, will be the site for the Brooklyn service on Sunday, Dec. 7, at 3:30 p.m. The opening in Queens will take place on Sunday, Dec. 14, at Immaculate Conception Monastery Church, Jamaica Estates, at 3:30 p.m.
On the newly designated Feast of St. John Paul II, the priests of Brooklyn and Queens were told to use the new saint as a role model for their priesthood. “If the Lord is going to renew His flock in the Diocese of Brooklyn, He is going to do it through the parish priest,” said Coadjutor Archbishop Bernard Hebda of Newark, N.J.
A record 3,000 pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, D.C. for a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate in Conception .
Sister Antoinette Gutzler, M.M., the Brooklyn-born president-elect of Maryknoll Sisters, celebrated 50 years with the congregation this past Sunday, Oct. 12, at a special Mass offered at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, N.Y.
DALLAS (CNS) – Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that he followed the teaching of Christ and stepped in to house the fiancee of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and three others for several weeks at a diocesan facility because when no one else would.
Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo has asked all priests of his diocese to spend at least one hour in prayer before the state’s only abortion facility and to join him in a procession to the facility.
Sister Teresa “Tesa” Fitzgerald, a Sister of St. Joseph from Brentwood, L.I., who directs the Hour Children program that helps women in prison and former women inmates as well as their children, has won the 2014 Opus Prize for faith-based humanitarian work.
Last Sunday at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn, the Propagation of the Faith Office conducted its annual World Mission Sunday event as schoolchildren from the diocese were honored for their donations to the missions.
WASHINGTON (CNS) – In the heart of the national shrine dedicated to one of the most revered figures in Church and world history, a new exhibit pays further homage to the man who embodied the Catholic Church for more than 25 years.
Father Jim Khoi asked for prayers for Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who grew up in the parish and is now in the news as the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus in the U.S.
