Twenty-four years after he lost his firefighter son in the terror attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, retired FDNY Deputy Chief James “Jim” Riches was laid to rest on Dec. 1. Riches died on Nov. 27 from a 9/11-related illness, according to the Uniformed Fire Officers Association. He was 74 years old.
At St. Joseph’s Seminary and College in Dunwoodie, Yonkers, the Redemptor Hominis Center for Holistic Health will open in 2026, providing seminarians and alumni with services to address their mental, physical, and emotional needs.
The Anne V. Graziani Fund, a small nonprofit on Long Island, brings live entertainment — such as sporting events and other uplifting experiences — to cancer patients, many of them children.
Firefighter Patrick Brady, an 11-year veteran of the FDNY, was eulogized as a gregarious, larger-than-life character known for his fierce prowess in attacking blazes from rooftops.
On the feast day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the Catholic bishops of New York state called for the nation to lean on the idea of Christian charity, “as lived so powerfully by Mother Cabrini,” on the issue of immigration.
If Pat Russo ever needs affirmation that he is doing the Lord’s work, all he has to do is remember how a $25,000 check to help cover costs recently arrived in the mail.
Funeral services were pending Monday morning for an 11-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department who died in the line of duty Nov. 8 after responding to an “all-hands” blaze in East Flatbush.
A New Jersey teenager who is a former student of Xavier High School in New York was recently arrested for allegedly participating in a jihadist ring whose members exchanged encrypted messages online about committing acts of terror.
Sunday, Nov. 9, marked the 87th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the terrifying “Night of Broken Glass” that historians mark as the pogrom that started the Holocaust.
Mario J. Paredes, the chief executive officer of SOMOS Community Care, the network of health care providers servicing immigrant communities, received the Catholic Extension Society’s Spirit of Francis Award at its 11th annual New York Award Dinner on Oct. 23.
