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.
A record 3,000 pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, D.C. for a pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate in Conception .
The Tablet, in coordination with local high schools, presents this years Annual High School Supplement.
I hope to have a job and friends and family that come into my life because of my honesty and hard work, not because of deception or anything I don’t stand for.
With classes back in full swing, schools from throughout the diocese are proud of their studious and caring teens. Here is a sample of the promising young leaders in the diocese.
