The 48th annual Ragamuffin Parade was held Sept. 27 in Bay Ridge with Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, diocesan vicar for development, as the grand marshal. Arlene Rutuelo, a community activist and owner of Nordic Delicacies, was honored as the Person of the Year.
On his first trip to the U.S. as the head of the Coptic Catholic Church in Egypt, Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak paid a pastoral visit to his Brooklyn flock at Resurrection Coptic Church in Park Slope Sept. 28. “Egypt is going out of this dark tunnel,” he said. “It needs time. We are trying.”
Two weeks before the start of an extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, the Vatican announced the formation of a special commission to reform the process of granting marriage annulments.
The Convent of Mercy fills most of a block in the Fort Greene/Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. A few blocks west of its main entrance on Willoughby Avenue is Pratt Institute, where young artists and architects prepare for their future careers.
NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) – Although Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich was personally unassuming, the spiritual impact she had on other Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth was so unmistakable that they began the effort to have her canonized soon after her May 8, 1927, death in Paterson, N.J.
Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, Wash., as the ninth archbishop of Chicago. The appointment was announced Sept. 20 in Washington, D.C. Archbishop Cupich, 65, will be installed Nov. 18 during a Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family will not open until Oct. 5, but some of its most prominent members are already publicly debating what is bound to be one of its most controversial topics: the eligibility of divorced and civilly remarried Catholics to receive Communion.
Myriad Catholic groups joined a singing, chanting sea of people who streamed along Manhattan’s West Side Sept. 21 to urge global action on climate change. Organizers of the People’s Climate March estimated nearly 400,000 men, women and children rallied to the cause.
On Friday, Sept. 26, the curtain went up at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, Prospect Heights, as a new opera series by the indie company Opera Oggi New York made its premiere. “Made in America” is a set of one-act operas with storyline, text and music by Thomas Lawrence Toscano, founder of the singer-run company. […]
TIRANA, Albania (CNS) – In a world “where an authentic religious spirit is being perverted and where religious differences are being distorted and exploited,” Albania is an “aspiring example” to everyone that peaceful coexistence is possible, Pope Francis said during a one-day visit to the country Sept. 21.
