A parishioner receives ashes from Bishop Robert Brennan. (Photo: Alicia Venter) DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Prayer. Fasting. Almsgiving. These are the three pillars of Lent. For many, that involves sacrificing something simple, such as giving up coffee or junk food. But for Bishop Robert Brennan, the 40-day season is also a time to take on a […]
Catholic schools can change the world because they are the best way to develop the next generation of Catholics, said Deacon Kevin McCormack, the diocesan superintendent of schools.
Alyssa Rivera, the kindergarten teacher at St. Brigid-St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Academy, had a surprise for her students when they returned from winter break: A shiny, modernized classroom.
Respect for human life — in all forms, and at all stages — underpins Catholic Church teachings regarding some of the world’s most polarizing issues: abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia.
When Father Kevin Sweeney became the bishop of the Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, in 2020, he bid farewell to the Diocese of Brooklyn after serving 20 years as a priest here. The transition did not mean, however, that he stopped looking to his longtime home for ideas and inspiration in his own diocese.
It’s been around five months since 300 young pilgrims took the trek from the Diocese of Brooklyn to Lisbon, Portugal, for World Youth Day.
Dawn and Randolph Padilla enrolled their 10-year-old son Christopher in the School of Religion at St. Anastasia Church in Douglaston to put him on a proper track for Catholic faith formation, but that’s not all they’re doing.
Bushwick’s Hispanic Catholic community braved snow flurries and frigid weather to celebrate the Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, on Jan. 7. Hundreds streamed into All Saints Catholic Church and Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii to commemorate the visit of the Magi — and in doing so, reinforced a sentiment voiced by Bishop Robert Brennan.
Bishop Robert Brennan and Cardinal Timothy Dolan were part of an interfaith leadership group that recently met with survivors of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, offering support and hearing the survivors’ accounts from that tragic day.
Bishop Robert Brennan joined hundreds of Jewish people at Grand Army Plaza on Dec. 14, the eighth night of Hanukkah, for the final lighting of “Brooklyn’s Largest Menorah.”
