Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School Essay Contest Winners

As part of its renewal year, Cristo Rey Brooklyn held a student contest to help students express their input on the school. The Bushwick high school asked its students to share their personal experience. The winners received a small stipend to put toward a college fund. First-place winner Michael Purvis, senior, described how the school […]

A Cristo Rey School Grows in Brooklyn

by Antonina Zielinska Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio went to Lourdes Academy, Bushwick, to officially rededicate it, on Nov. 2, as Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz also came to congratulate the school as did representatives of the diocese and the Cristo Rey Network. “The name change is a symbol of more profound […]