Good Grammar Lays Groundwork for Success, Educators Say

The practice of good grammar and proper spelling is becoming a lost art. Still, academies in the Diocese of Brooklyn keep up the tradition by teaching students things like the difference between a colon and a semicolon.

Warm Welcome in Cypress Hills

Father Luis Laverde, the new pastor of Blessed Sacrament Church, Cypress Hills, received a warm welcome from the school community at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy on Nov. 28.

We’ll Miss Father Frank

Dear Editor: Soon Blessed Sacrament parish and Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy will bid farewell to our pastor, Father Francis Shannon, known to all as Father Frank. He will be moving to St. Mary Star of the Sea-St. Gertrude in Far Rockaway.