Lidia Bastianich, an Italian-born parishioner of St. Anastasia’s, Douglaston, who escaped with her family after her region in Italy was awarded to communist Yugoslavia and the Iron Curtain erected, said she got the request to cook for Pope Benedict XVI for his 2008 visit to the United States.
At its annual Scholarship Fund Dinner, Futures in Education raised $2.3 million in scholarships for students of low-income families of Brooklyn and Queens, surpassing last year’s record.
Pope Francis greets students and talks with immigrant families at Our Lady Queen of Angels School in East Harlem (photos)
Pope Francis encouraged an audience of Catholic school students and immigrants to live with joy and dare to dream.
St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, warmly welcomes the students from St. Aidan’s School in Brisbane, Australia. The Australian students were greeted with a welcome breakfast sponsored by the Student Council. They met the students they will be staying with for the time they are in Brooklyn. They will be visiting the United Nations, seeing a […]
On Sept. 16, students from both Xaverian’s middle school program, Genesis, and high school in Bay Ridge joined forces to Go Gold to raise awareness of pediatric cancer. The Go Gold effort has been spearheaded by Camille Orichio-Loccisano, who lost her son, Frankie, a member of Xaverian’s class of 2008, to pediatric cancer in 2007. […]
The colleges located in the three cities where the pope is visiting – Washington, New York and Philadelphia – have been pulling out the stops.
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, In my pastoral vision for the New Evangelization, which I wrote in 2007, I asked Catholic schools of Brooklyn and Queens to strengthen their efforts to identify and fulfill their Catholic mission. Four years later, when the Preserving the Vision Strategic Plan for Catholic Education was announced, we emphasized that the true mission of Catholic education for the Diocese of Brooklyn is to lead those entrusted to our care to find salvation in Jesus Christ, a mission that should be shared by all involved in Catholic education.
Here are the schools that have completed the transition from parish schools to academies.
The Trust will sponsor the Catholic Identity Links program and continue to provide instructional reports for the TerraNova testing program. It will provide schools and academies with an enhanced curriculum with both the Greek and Latin Roots Challenge and the Performing Artists in Residency Programs.
