Life is filled with all kinds of loss. There are the deaths of loved ones, the loss of jobs, various disappointments, illnesses which suddenly occur. In September, I lost two good friends. Two months later, after a routine doctor visit and blood test, I was informed that I had chronic mylogenous leukemia. What a shock that was!

The answer to the question posed in the headline needs more words than I can fit into a single article. In the Brooklyn Diocese, simply stated, Catholic education is thriving inside and outside the classroom.

On June 27, 2009, the Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a group of educators, religious and corporate volunteers set to work cleaning out the long-closed St. Barbara’s elementary school in Bushwick, as a first step in the creation of what would become the new Pope John Paul II Family Academy (PJPFA)

An article published in a recent issue of the New York Times was blood curdling: “25 Cats Found Murdered in Yonkers.”

Like so many children born of working-class parents whose defining life experience had been the Great Depression of the 1930s, I was a born Democrat.

Every year, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity, a central doctrine of Christianity, the belief that God is one in three Persons. We have been told over and over again that this is a mystery that no one can possibly understand. Yet, to the degree that we can penetrate this mystery, it has the power to transform our lives.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Catholic Church is no place for “climbers,” who want to reach the heights of prestige, power and profit, Pope Francis said.

April 27, 2014 was a glorious day in the city of Rome. Two great popes, John XXIII and John Paul II, were canonized as saints of our Church. The priests of the Diocese of Brooklyn were well represented in Piazza San Pietro on that day.

This Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize two of his predecessors: “Good” Pope John XXIII and John Paul “the Great.”