This week’s Tablet TALK features a visiting Lithuanian dignitary in Williamsburg, a new postulant from Hollis, a health fair in Fresh Meadows, details about 9-11 tributes in Brooklyn and much, much more.
Holy Family – Fresh Meadows Queens
Co-Naming Street for Bishop Is the Way to Go
By Michael Rizzo There’s a new name for 74th Avenue that runs alongside Holy Family parish in Fresh Meadows, between Utopia Parkway and 175th Street. It’s now co-named Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello Way, dedicated to the late prelate who served as the parish’s pastor from 2007 to 2010 and was an auxiliary bishop of the […]
Remembering Bishop Catanello
The late Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello will be remembered at two separate occasions on two successive weekends. On Sunday, June 7, following the noon Mass at Holy Family Church, Fresh Meadows, Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello Way will be dedicated at the corner of 74th St. and Utopia Pkwy. The proposal to name the street after […]
Tablet TALK – SJU’s Class of 2015
This week’s Tablet TALK salutes graduates, announces the date for the unveiling of Bishop Catanello Way, highlights a new chaplain in Queens Village and more.
Tablet TALK: Girl Scout Sunday in Astoria
This week in Tablet TALK: A celebration of the founding of the Girl Scouts, a street is renamed for a late local bishop, fathers and daughters dance in Rockaway, a gala benefits mothers and children, and more.
DeSales Helps Students Learn in New Ways
Students at St. Joseph the Worker School in Windsor Terrace now work in a new media lab, courtesy of the DeSales Media Group, parent company of The Tablet and NET-TV. Principal Robert DiNardo is so grateful that he wants everyone to know where the new room came from. So, he held a special ceremony on […]
Ford Coach Retires on a High Note
Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope, assistant girls’ basketball coach Mary Gillespie, pictured at right far right, announced she will retire from coaching after nine years with the Lady Falcons. Gillespie ends her career on the highest note as Bishop Ford recently captured its first-ever N.Y.S. Federation Class ‘AA’ basketball title. Before Bishop Ford, she ran […]
Queens Village Carolers Spread Christmas Cheer
Do you hear what I hear? Queens Village families may have asked that question last Saturday evening, Dec. 15. What they heard were the sounds of joyful carolers spreading Christmas cheer as part of Incarnation parish’s annual Christmas Carol Procession. An intergenerational mix of parishioners joined together for an evening of fellowship and spreading faith through […]
Canarsie Parish Sets Its Sights on Bright Future
by Marie Elena Giossi Floodwaters have receded and electricity has been restored, but the post-Sandy rebuilding efforts have just begun for residents in Canarsie. Having been designated as a Zone B evacuation area with only a moderate flood risk, Canarsie residents weren’t expecting the seven- and eight-foot high floodwaters that Sandy brought ashore late last […]