by Antonina Zielinska MADRID — The day before World Youth Day officially started, pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn joined their counterparts from around the world to celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the ancient city of Avila, Spain. Msgr. Jaime Gigantiello, pastor of Mary, Queen of Heaven, Old […]
by Antonina Zielinska MADRID, Spain – In the days leading up to World Youth Day, early arriving pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn were taken on a guided tour of Toledo, a city located 60 miles from Madrid. The city has been populated since the Bronze Age and grew in importance during the Roman Empire. […]
by: Antonina Zielinska After a six-hour overnight flight, with little to no sleep and no breakfast because of turbulance, the second group of World Youth Day pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn arrived in Madrid Aug. 13, exhausted but ready to to begin their spiritual journey. When the pilgrims were finally allowed out of the […]
Root causes of recent outbursts of rioting, pillaging and violent protests around the world may not be as related as some analysts infer, citing mostly economic factors. Israel is not Greece and Philadelphia is not London — to name a few areas in which social unrest has been reported. In some cases, one finds clear […]
The 16th annual Bishops’ Golf Classic was held Aug. 11 at North Hills Country Club, Manhasset, L.I. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio presented the Classic’s Pastor of the Year Award to Msgr. Kevin Noone, of Our Lady of Angels, Bay Ridge, and the Agency of the Year Award to Rocklyn Management Assets’ Robert Dadona, director of project […]
by Gretchen R. Crowe MADRID (CNS) – A cloudless blue sky turned to inky night as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims participated in the opening Mass for World Youth Day, celebrated by Madrid Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela in the Plaza de Cibeles. Protected from the heat by white umbrellas and streams of soft mists, dozens […]
People protest against special reductions on public transport for pilgrims on the first day of the World Youth Day in Madrid. The banners read: “Secular state,” “A paid-for pope blesses the robbed” and “A subsidized Catholic is a politician, not a Christian.”
by Gretchen R. Crowe MADRID (CNS) – The colors of World Youth Day lit up the auditorium of the Palacio de Deportes sports arena in Madrid Tuesday afternoon for the opening of the “Love and Life Center: A Home for English-Speaking Pilgrims.” American, Canadian and World Youth Day flags, among others, swayed to the rockin’ […]
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) – A 2010 law is providing conscience protections for health care professionals in England who believe in “the sanctity of life from conception onward,” regardless of their religious beliefs. The Thomas More Legal Centre, which specializes in religious discrimination law, recently successfully defended two Catholic nurses who had asked not to be […]
