When the principal of St. Agnes A.H.S. introduced the reigning Miss USA to students Oct. 30, she said the pageant winner “shows qualities that we ask you to strive for this year.” Miss USA spent the afternoon recounting her story to the teenage girls. She finished her talk with a demonstration of Tae-Kwon-Do self-defense moves, which can be done in high heels and a dress.
Alyssa Attardo, senior Bishop Kearney H.S. I don’t have to envy someone because we are all capable of our own thing. Kathleen Corbett, sophomore Msgr. McClancy M.H.S. The 10th commandment means that we should be happy with what God gave us and not be envious of people who have things […]
I want to be able to travel the world and see and meet people from different cultures/ nationalities. I want to experience their way of life, a new way of life.
I feel that liturgical music can help us pray better. It helps us grow closer to Him. I feel that by listening or singing along to liturgical music, it helps us to see what God has planned for us in the future.
Karolina Smiarowska, 18, joined her fellow parishioners from St. Matthias, Ridgewood, for the diocesan pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., Oct. 25. For her, the pilgrimage served as a continuation of the formation she received at World Youth Day Brazil and as a Jornadista.
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) – Families navigate their smartphones while doing everyday activities, so it’s no surprise that cellphones affect even church.
More than 300 Sisters of Charity, Halifax, and their associates, along with clergy, family and friends, marked the 90th anniversary of the Sisters’ arrival in New York at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Oct. 25.
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.
Where It All Began – a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Cathedral Prep – will be held on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 5 p.m. Mass at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights. Auxiliary Bishops Paul Sanchez and Raymond Chappetto, both alumni of Cathedral College, Brooklyn, will be the main celebrants.
It was a crisp fall morning on Sunday, Oct. 19, when St. Ephrem’s parish and school community gathered in Dyker Heights to celebrate the 100th birthday of Madeline Scotto. The celebration began at the 10 a.m. parish Mass.
