Catholic Charities’ Progress of Peoples Development Corporation (CCPOP), the affordable housing development division of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ), has announced it has closed on $31 million in financing to develop Howard Beach Senior Apartments, which will offer 96 units of affordable housing to seniors and persons with developmental disabilities. In 2009, CCPOP […]
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New Bishop
Bishop Peter A. Libasci prepares to sit in the cathedra, or bishop’s chair, during his installation Mass Dec. 8 at St. Joseph Cathedral in Manchester, N.H. The Queens native and former auxiliary bishop of Rockville Centre, became the 10th bishop of Manchester.
Cardinal Challenges Catholics
WASHINGTON (CNS) – In his new book, “Seek First the Kingdom,” Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl calls on Catholics to seek God’s kingdom and then reflect it in their everyday lives. When Catholics deepen their own faith, their hearts are transformed, and when they share it with others, they can change their community, their nation […]
Bishops’ Christmas Masses
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio Dec. 24, 5 p.m. Children’s Mass, Incarnation, Queens Village Dec. 24, 7:30 p.m. Spanish Mass, St. Leo’s, Corona Dec. 25, 10 a.m. Mass, St. Martin de Porres parish – 90th anniversary of St. Peter Claver parish, St. Peter Claver Church, Bedford-Stuyvesant Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros Dec. 24, 12 a.m. Midnight Mass, Holy […]
Advice to Queens Shoppers
Shoppers at the Queens Mall in Elmhurst couldn’t help but notice this banner which hangs on the side of Cathedral Prep Seminary. It was sponsored by the Msgr. John T. Peyton Council of the Knights of Columbus at St. Rita’s parish, East New York. The banner is part of the Knights’ national campaign to Keep […]
Vatican Christmas Tree
A couple stops to look at the Christmas tree decorating St. Peter’s Square after a lighting ceremony at the Vatican Dec. 16. The tree is a 100-foot-tall spruce from Ukraine.
True Spirit of Christmas
The Good News that Christmas really brings is much more than anything we can celebrate in one day. No reason for a Christian to lament that the Christmas tree dries out so quickly and with it the good feelings generated during the season that may soon seem a mere diversion from sobering realities: taxes, rent […]
Keep Christ in Christmas 2011 – K. of C. and Tablet Congratulate Annual Art Contest Winners
The Tablet staff and members of Archbishop John Hughes Knights of Columbus Council No. 481, Dyker Heights, teamed up for a fourth year to co-sponsor a “Keep Christ in Christmas” art contest. Winners were honored Monday evening, Dec. 12 at the Council. Grand Knight Camillo Casano emceed the awards ceremony. He and Deputy Grand Knight […]
Ordination – Visitation Church Is Scene of Ceremony for Koinonia Priest (with slide show)
by Marie Elena Giossi Irish-born Father Eamon Gerard Murray was ordained to the priesthood by Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano at Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, Red Hook, on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 10. Bishop Caggiano welcomed the congregation to witness the transitional deacon “be configured to the image of Christ the High Priest in […]
Church Schools Freed Of MTA Payroll Tax
Civic and religious officials applauded the decision to exempt private and parochial schools from the MTA payroll tax. Councilman David G. Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) was joined by Councilman Eric A. Ulrich (R-Ozone Park), Msgr. Kiernan E. Harrington, Vicar for Communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn, Rabbi Mordechai Besser, principal of Manhattan Day School, and Sam A. […]