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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some church buildings in the Rockaways sustained water damage from Hurricane Sandy, but many parishioners’ lives were turned upside down when more than 100 homes burned to the ground in the oceanside community of Breezy Point. The storm knocked out power to huge swathes of the nation’s most densely populated region, swamped New York’s subway […]
