Auxiliary Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan will concelebrate 10 a.m. Mass by the main gate on Saturday, Sept. 15. Mass will also be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16. The second annual 5K Race/Run/Walk on the Riegelmann Boardwalk begins at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. A separate area at the fairgrounds will be […]
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Fairgrounds at MCU Park
Scenes from The Great Irish Fair 2011
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Great Irish Fair Honorees 2012
Msgr. Dominick Joseph Finnerty, pastor emeritus of St. Kevin Church, Auburndale, is receiving the Father Mychal Judge Award. The son of Irish immigrants from County Galway, Msgr. Finnerty grew up in St. Saviour parish, Park Slope. From his parents, he and his siblings, Sister Mary Clare, S.S.N.D. (deceased), and Kevin Patrick, a retired Drug Enforcement […]
Setting a Positive Example As Colleen Queen 2012
by Antonina Zielinska Having attended the Irish Fair most years of her young life, Taylor Powers had great admiration for the Colleen Queens that reigned over the fair each year. “I remember them walking around the fair with their sash, and I wanted to be like them,” she said. Although it was her childhood aspiration, […]
Festive Faith – Diocesan Contingent Participates in West Indian Festival in Crown Heights (with slideshow)
by Antonina Zielinska Labor Day may be an opportunity for workers to rest, but the West Indian community of the Diocese of Brooklyn did not take a rest from glorifying God last Monday. With a song of praise for God on their lips, the diocesan contingent was hard to miss in this year’s West Indian […]
Dreams Deferred – Young Immigrants Respond to Obama’s Program Offering Prosecutorial Discretion
by Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – The first days for applying for deferred deportation for some young adults under a program to use prosecutorial discretion brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country and a first wave of responses from state governments about what privileges they would and would not extend […]
Cardinal Once Contender For Papacy Is Dead at 85
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, a renowned biblical scholar and former archbishop of Milan who was considered to have been a contender for the papacy, died Aug. 31 at the age of 85 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Pope Benedict XVI met privately with the cardinal […]
Fr. Groeschel Apologizes for Remarks About Sex Abusers
Father Benedict Groeschel, a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal who has long been a popular speaker and television personality, apologized Aug. 30 for interview comments he made that were published online two days earlier, saying that “in a lot of cases” the victim of child sexual abuse is “the seducer.” Father Groeschel also had said […]
Hollywood Exorcisms Different from Reality
by Elisabeth Deffner ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) – In addition to the usual teen and children’s programs and the expected selection of workshops on such topics as the power of God and healing relationships, the 41st annual Catholic Renewal Convention sponsored by Southern California Renewal Communities offered a look into the reality of evil in the […]