Three Sees Agree to Seminary Realignment – Dioceses’ Major Seminarians Will Attend St. Joseph’s, Dunwoodie (with slide show)

  by Ed Wilkinson Seminarians studying theology as they prepare for priesthood in the Diocese of Brooklyn will no longer attend classes at Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, but instead will reside and study at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, currently the archdiocesan seminary. Seminarians from the Rockville Centre Diocese also will move from Huntington to Dunwoodie. […]

Religious Liberty Topic At Bishops’ Conference

BALTIMORE (CNS) – At the start of their annual three-day fall assembly in Baltimore, the U.S. bishops were urged to restore the luster, credibility and beauty of the Catholic Church in the hearts of its members. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York called on his fellow bishops Nov. 14 to communicate to the world […]

Naval Academy Women Sing at St. Francis Prep

by Antonina Zielinska In honor of Veteran’s Day, St. Francis Preparatory High School, Fresh Meadows, welcomed the women of the Naval Academy Glee Club, who performed during the main event of school’s week-long commemoration. The event commenced with a prayer, the pledge of allegiance, and the Star Spangled Banner performed by the Naval students. Among […]

Lithuanian Choir Performs in Williamsburg

On Nov. 5, parishioners of Annunciation Church in Williamsburg, were treated to a performance by the internationally acclaimed Boys’ Choir of Lithuania, “Dagilelis.”  The choir’s concert at Annunciation was part of its U.S. tour that included performances at the United States Capitol and the United Nations. The Boys’ Choir of Lithuania has received prestigious awards and honors worldwide, performed at […]

Greenpoint Pastor Honored

Father Marek Sobczak, C.M., pastor of St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Greenpoint section, received the Polish-American Congress Clergy Award at the organization’s Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 30 at the Polonaise Terrace.  Father Sobczak is shown (center) at the special memorial service his parish holds every year at the Father Jerzy Popieluszko Monument in Greenpoint’s McCarren […]

Music Series in Bayside Church

On Saturday, Nov. 12, the feast of St. Josaphat Kuntsevych, students from the Department of Music at L.I.U.’s C.W. Post campus performed a program of vocal and guitar compositions at St. Josaphat’s Church in Bayside. The C.W. Post Madrigal Singers directed by Jeffrey Johnson, dressed in epoch costumes performed medieval, Renaissance and Baroque compositions. The […]

Exceeding Goal in Windsor Terrace

Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello, left, Vicar for Development, presents a check to Father Robert Adamo, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, Windsor Terrace, and parishioner Jean Czark. The check, totaling more than $9,000, represents how much the parish went over goal in receipts for the 2011 Annual Catholic Appeal. If all pledges are completed, it […]

Pope in Benin Hopes To Strengthen Church

by John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI asked for prayers for his trip to Benin and for those suffering from violence on the African continent. The pope, addressing pilgrims at his noon blessing Nov. 13, said he was traveling to Benin “in order to strengthen the faith and hope of Christians in […]

Eighth Graders in Woodside Learn Some Early Lessons in High School

When Bob DiNardo, principal of Corpus Christi School, Woodside, decided to introduce high school Spanish to his eighth-grade students, he only had to look a few blocks away to Msgr. McClancy M.H.S. to find a class. “We now have 14 outstanding eighth graders taking ninth grade Spanish at Msgr. McClancy,” DiNardo said. “My students really […]

Ireland Closes Embassy to the Holy See

DUBLIN (CNS) ­– Ireland will close its Embassy to the Holy See in what has been described by officials as a cost-saving measure. Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said the move is not a result of a recent dispute between Ireland and the Vatican, which led Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, papal nuncio to Ireland, to be […]