Twenty-four young people from Holy Family parish, Flushing, will join about 500 pilgrims from the Brooklyn diocese to celebrate their faith during World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid next week. “Some are afraid that the youth have fallen astray, fallen asleep,” said pilgrim Claudia Goncalves. “We are not. We are alive in the faith. World […]
When the Brooklyn Cyclones took on the Connecticut Tigers at MCU Park, Coney Island, July 28, nearly 250 baseball fans turned out to support Catholic education in Brooklyn and Queens while rooting for the home team. The Cyclones annually partner with the Futures in Education Foundation to host Going to Bat for Catholic […]
On Sept. 14 at noon, in the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will join with bishops, clergy and laypersons from throughout the United States in a memorial Mass for the late Archbishop Pietro Sambi who died on July 27, following post-operative complications. Archbishop Sambi was the […]
We wish to extend our congratulations and gratitude to the students, counselors, faculty and staff of the Father Troike Summer Leadership Program at Cathedral Preparatory Seminary on the completion of its 43 years of service to our community. That’s right! This valuable program has been in existence for a long time — since 1968, and […]
Ten students from SS. Joachim and Anne School, Queens Village, participated in a day to remember, courtesy of Yankees HOPE Week. The students were all Haitians and were victims of the 2010 earthquake that devastated their homeland. They also are recipients of educational grants from the diocese’s Futures in Education Foundation. The students were told […]
Pope Benedict XVI receives the official World Youth Day 2011 backpack from Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela of Madrid during a private meeting at the Vatican in early February. The cardinal was the archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1989 when Pope John Paul II met young people there for World Youth Day. Spain is preparing […]
Around 200 Cursillistas from Brooklyn and Queens conducted a local Way of St. James on the saint’s feast day, July 25, with a street procession and evening Mass, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Frank J. Caggiano at St. Paul’s Church, Cobble Hill. Cursillistas started their celebration with an outdoor recitation of the rosary at their former […]
ORANGE, Calif. (CNS) – The Diocese of Orange has made a formal bid of $50 million to buy the Crystal Cathedral complex in Garden Grove, once the home church of the Rev. Robert Schuller, a noted television preacher. The cathedral property was put up for auction earlier this year as part of the cathedral ministries’ […]
by Antonina Zielinska After a year and a half of spiritual preparation and fundraising, 10 young people from Transfiguration parish, Williamsburg, are less than two weeks away from joining thousands of pilgrim from throughout the world to celebrate World Youth Day in Spain. “It will be an experience of a lifetime,” said Arisleidy Maran, one […]
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has put his own stamp on the celebration of World Youth Day, and it’s especially clear in the gathering’s moments of prayer. In Cologne, Germany, six years ago – Pope Benedict’s first WYD as pope – he surprised the youths at the Saturday night vigil […]
