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Only in Print: Palm Sunday Mass Returns After Pandemic’s One-Year Mark

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio — who celebrated the Palm Sunday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James on March 28, 2021 — blesses palms. (Photo: Erin DeGregorio)

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — This Palm Sunday, priests and bishops across the Diocese of Brooklyn celebrated Palm Sunday Masses in person. Last year, churches in Brooklyn and Queens were closed for the second half of the Lenten season due to the coronavirus pandemic …


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