In a world where people spend much of their time looking down at electronic devices, more than 200 women gathered to do something different: Look up. That was the invitation at the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Women’s Conference, held October 17 at the Immaculate Conception Center.
Informational and inspirational. Those two words are apt descriptions of the keynote presentations by Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers at the Diocese of Brooklyn Convocation for Permanent Deacons on Oct. 11
Candidates, sponsors, and loved ones filled the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston as 72 students from high schools across the Diocese of Brooklyn received confirmation.
Eighth grader Alyssa Matthews said she was proud to see how months of practice with the St. Clare Catholic Academy Children’s Choir paid off at the diocese’s Festival of Lessons and Carols on Dec. 18.
The Youth Holy Hour and Vocation Fair on March 21 was the second time in 2025 that youth from throughout the diocese gave up their Friday night for a standing-room-only event with Bishop Brennan.
Laying the groundwork for a future overhaul of faith formation in the Diocese of Brooklyn, Bishop Robert Brennan gathered catechetical leaders together for a summit at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston on Sept. 21.
Hundreds of people took a big step in her journey to becoming Catholics by taking part in the Rite of Election on Sunday, Feb. 26 — a time-honored tradition that takes place annually on the first Sunday of Lent and signifies the fact that those who are to be baptized — called catechumens — have been chosen, or elected, by the Church.
The Diocese of Brooklyn has announced that Deacon Andrew T. Mastrangelo has been appointed as the new Director of the Immaculate Conception Center located in Douglaston, New York. Deacon Andrew Mastrangelo replaces Deacon Stanley Galazin whose retirement took effect on August 31, 2022, after serving 19 years in this role.
A collective 6,780 years of service to God was celebrated on Saturday, May 7, as women and men religious from the Diocese of Brooklyn gathered at Immaculate Conception Center for their Jubilee Mass.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a temporary halt to in-person retreats. Now, they’re starting up again.
