Teaching the Catholic faith isn’t just the responsibility of priests. Lay persons play an important role, too. It was in that spirit that the Diocese of Brooklyn marked Catechetical Sunday on Sept. 18 with priests blessing their catechists at Mass to start off a new year of religious education programs.
Parishioners of a church that has been home to Lithuanian Catholics in the Diocese of Brooklyn for more than 100 years rolled out the red carpet for the president of their homeland on Sept. 20.
The Diocese of Brooklyn has begun the process of permanently removing a former St. Sebastian Church deacon from all ministry following his guilty plea to coercing teenagers into sexual acts. Rogelio Vega, 52, pleaded guilty on Sept. 16 to three counts of enticing a child to engage in sexual conduct.
You need a passport to visit a foreign country, but students at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy get the thrill of using a passport inside their own school.
Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain began with the ringing of a church bell. Now, more than 200 years later, it is with the ringing of church bells that Mexican Independence Day is celebrated.
Chaplains assigned to Catholic high schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn serve students, faculty, staff, alumni and more. That’s why these campus communities are considered actual “parishes” by chaplains like Father Ralph Edelman at St. Francis Preparatory High School in Queens.
He didn’t bring an apple for the teacher, but Deacon Kevin McCormack brought lots of excitement when he visited St. Michael Catholic Academy on the first day of school on Sept. 7.
They are diligently and lovingly carrying on the work of a beloved saint, and their work takes place right here in the Diocese of Brooklyn.
September 5th marked the 25th anniversary of the death of St. Teresa of Calcutta, but in the Diocese of Brooklyn, fond memories of the woman known simply as Mother Teresa remain.
Lucy Spata, the woman behind the Lucy’s Sausage stands that are ubiquitous at street fairs and religious festivals like the Santa Rosalia Feast in Bensonhurst, got an early start in the business — real early.
