Five Sisters Take Their First Steps Toward Catholic Faith Together

Parents usually feel joy and anticipation on the day their child is baptized into the Catholic faith. Philip and Jessica Chan were no different, except they experienced those emotions five times over. The Chans watched as their five daughters — Olivia, 7, Madeline, 5, twins Camile and Eloise, 4, and Genevieve, 2 — were baptized by Father Gregory McIlhenney at St. Andrew Avellino Church in Flushing on Jan. 26.

Bishop Brennan Welcomes Students During Catholic School Week

Bishop Robert Brennan was observing a music class for kindergarten students at Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy in Douglaston on the morning of Jan. 27 when teacher Anthony Russo invited him to join in as the children were learning to keep rhythm. 

Educators Urged to Embrace Change to Help Grow Academies

Catholic academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn will soon begin collecting data on all aspects of their operations and success to develop plans for the future, diocesan officials announced at a conference on Oct. 22. 

Bay Ridge Catholic Academy’s Science Lab Sparks Innovation and Discovery

In one corner of the classroom, Livia Chen and Simon Kochergin were peering into microscopes. In another, Megan Heaney, Elena Sealey, and Carolyn Tomaselli teamed up to experiment with turning liquids into different colors. In the front, Chris Stephan held up a plastic bone and examined it to determine where it belonged on a model skeleton.