An overflow crowd of more than 700 people filled the main chapel at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, Oct. 18 to attend the diocese’s Catholic Education Summit.
Immaculate Conception Center
CYO Hall of Fame Welcomes Inductees
The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) of Brooklyn and Queens held its third annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony May 20 at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston.
Fourteen Priests Observe 25 Years of Priesthood
Seven of the men who are celebrating their 25th anniversaries as priests were ordained by Bishop Thomas V. Daily on June 1, 1991. Details of the other ordinations are included in these brief biographies.
Bishop Catanello Dinner
The Third Annual Bishop Ignatius A. Catanello Memorial Dinner-Dance will be held on Saturday, March 12, at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston. It will begin with Mass at 6 p.m. in the chapel.
Retired Prison Chaplain Dies at 82 in Florida
A Mass of Christian Burial for Father John H. Wilkinson, 82, a senior priest of the diocese, was celebrated Nov. 30 in the chapel at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. He died Nov. 23 in Venice, Florida, where he was living in retirement.
Annual Lawler Dinner Supports Senior Priests
The eighth annual Kathie and Christopher Lawler Dinner-Dance was held on Saturday, Nov. 21 at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. This year’s event raised $65,000 for the Lawler Extraordinary Needs Fund for Senior Priests which, to date, has raised $600,000 to assist senior priests in the diocese.
Annual Meeting Brings Local Deacons Together
“This is a ministry that is not done alone; it is done in community with our bishop, our priests and our brother deacons,” Deacon Gonzales said. “This is how we keep the deacon family together.”
50 Years After Nostra Aetate
Three hundred people attended the Clergy Convocation at Immaculate conception Center, Douglaston, sponsored by the Office of Priestly Life and Ministry and Diaconate Office.
School of Evangelization Junior High Rally
Over 600 young people came out for a day of prayer, worship, reflection, music and Mass.
Our Youth Round Up Oct. 10, 2015
Continuing the Vincentian Tradition; No Shortage of Creativity At St. Edmund Preparatory; Teen Holy Hour; Catholic Junior High Rally; Teen Shout-Out; Youth Page Submissions