Noise – it has been suggested – is the home country of today’s generation. Noise is where we live, whether we know it, admit it, like it – or not. Evidence of this is the discomfort that so many experience with the presence of silence. We say “presence” because silence is more than just the […]
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Diocesan Recovery Begins with Hope – Respond to Sandy
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio returned Nov. 4 to Breezy Point for the second time in a week to celebrate Mass with the beleaguered ocean side community as it struggled to recuperate from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. The bishop offered hope and urged parishioners to be patient, saying that recovery will not occur overnight. More than […]
‘Tablet’ Kept Queens GIs’ Spirits High
by James Breig During World War II, the millions of servicemen and women deployed around the globe wanted to remain connected to home not only through letters from family members but also via newspapers. For example, Sgt. James Bailey, a Virginian writing from New Guinea in 1944, thanked his mother for sending him copies of […]
Breezy Point and Mass
Belle Harbor Photos
Nov. 7 — A Call for Help in Queens
St. Helen’s Church, Howard Beach, has set up a post-Hurricane Sandy emergency supply shelter, which is serving hundreds of residents without heat or power in Howard Beach and the surrounding neighborhoods. Thousands of families and senior citizens are still without power or heat. Many have nowhere else to stay except for their flooded homes. St. Helen’s […]
Hurricane Sandy — The Aftermath
Pilgrimage to National Shrine – Thousands from Diocese Travel to Washington, D.C., for Year of Faith
by Antonina Zielinska An estimated 2,000 pilgrims from Brooklyn and Queens made their way to Washington, D.C., for a daylong pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, on Saturday, Oct. 27. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros and retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy Sansaricq joined the priests and faithful of […]
End of an Era at Gate of Heaven as Scannell Retires
by Marie Elena Giossi The name Patrick Scannell has become so synonymous with St. Mary Gate of Heaven School, Ozone Park, that it’s difficult to mention one without the other. That wasn’t a problem at St. Mary Gate of Heaven Church last Saturday, Oct. 27, when the parish and school community gathered for […]
Rosary Rally
Bishop Prays with Catholic School Children at St. James Cathedral by Marie Elena Giossi Sixth grader Ranvir Sidhu thought it was “pretty exciting” to pray the Rosary with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and his peers at the ninth annual Rosary Rally for Catholic school children at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn, Wednesday morning, Oct. 24. Students […]