When upstart Democratic primary challenger Brian Barnwell defeated incumbent NY Assemblywoman Margaret Markey in the Primary Election Sept. 13, there weren’t many tears shed in Catholic circles.
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A Night to Remember
State Senator Martin Golden held his annual Memorial Rally on the Veterans’ Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge on Sept. 11, in honor of those who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Underfunding Forces HeartShare To Relocate Services in Queens
HeartShare’s Evaluation Services for children with developmental delays have relocated to its pre-school sites in Richmond Hill and Howard Beach.
Mozart Adds to Local Sounds of Remembrance
St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, reverberated with the sounds of the 18th century when Mozart’s Requiem was performed as part of a 9/11 remembrance liturgy. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was the main celebrant of the annual liturgy for the 23 members of FDNY Battalion 57 who died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center.
Slain Ithaca Student Buried in Brooklyn
Two weeks after 19-year-old Anthony Nazaire was stabbed to death, mourners filled the church where he received his First Holy Communion as a child, Holy Innocents, Flatbush.
Dominican Sisters to Mark Founder’s Day
In celebration of The “Order of Preachers” 800th anniversary, the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, L.I., will conduct Founders’ Day on Saturday, Sept. 10, at the motherhouse in Amityville.
World Trade Center Is Seen As Sign of Hope
by Beth Griffin, (CNS) – Fifteen years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks decimated the twin towers in lower Manhattan, the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center rises out of the ground, a palpable symbol of triumph and optimism. The tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere is the soaring, storied, centerpiece of a 16-acre complex that includes eight other major structures.
TeleMATER Hosts Costanza Miriano Book Signing Event
Italian Catholic television station, TeleMATER is hosting a book signing event for the famous and fervent Catholic Italian mother and writer, Costanza Miriano on Sept. 7. The book signing will begin at 7 p.m. in Our Lady of Pompeii Shrine Church, Demo Hall, Manhattan.
Laid to Rest
Brooklyn Student’s Death More Complicated as Details Emerge:
A funeral Mass for Daniel Fitzpatrick, a 13-year-old boy who committed suicide after claiming he was bullied at a Brooklyn Catholic school was held Aug. 17 at Sacred Heart Church, Staten Island.
Sheep Keep Grounds of Church Cemetery Tidy
For the third straight year, a historic New York City church has imported three sheep from an upstate New York farm to serve as organic lawn mowers in its two-century-old cemetery.