For the first time, four students from St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, attended the Model Congress Simulation at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Shelby Lau, Amanda Mattioli, Rayan Ramirez and Gerald Rehill fielded the first team to take part in the three-day conference. Each team member was assigned a current Senator or Representative and spent weeks […]
The history of faith is rooted in God’s communication with humanity through the Son, and it is through the family that one can encounter the gift of love. This was one of the topics discussed at a Spanish-language session before the diocesan celebration of World Communications Day, May 13, at the Brooklyn Marriott. Dario Lopez […]
America will fall in love with Pope Francis when he visits in September. That is the prediction of Austen Ivereigh, author of “The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope,” who was the main speaker at the Brooklyn Diocese’s celebration of World Communications Day on May 13. The day-long conference held at […]
Pope Francis has appointed two priests of the Diocese of Brooklyn – the Very Reverend James Massa, 54, and the Reverend Canon Witold Mroziewski, 49 – as auxiliary bishops of Brooklyn. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the U.S., made the announcement public on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will ordain the new […]
Visually telling the story of a great community of women is what artist Anne Goetze aims to do in her body of work, “Pray to Love: The Annecy France Nun Series,” currently on display at Visitation Monastery and Academy in Bay Ridge. The Visitation Sisters of Brooklyn are hosting the exhibit in celebration of both […]
Two priests and three seminarians are about to bike their way up the entire East Coast in hopes of raising awareness about religious vocations along the way. The team is en route by car to Florida and will begin a month-long ride from the Diocese of St. Augustine, Fla., which is observing the 450th year […]
“The Double Meaning of Pentecost” will be the subject of a Scripture study led by Father John Murray, C.Ss.R., in the rectory of Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, Sunset Park, on Friday, May 22. All are welcome to attend the study session, which will begin promptly at 11 a.m. Participants are asked to bring […]
Meet the nine priests celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year.
Meet the three priests celebrating their 60th anniversaries this year.
Meet the six priests celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year.
