Two Diocese of Brooklyn priests, Father Alonzo Cox and Father Patrick Longalong, were installed as members of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, an international Catholic order whose mission is to provide financial and spiritual support to the Christian community in the Holy Land.
Pilgrims from the Brooklyn Diocese who are on a Year of Mercy Holy Land visit joined the diocese’s newest members of the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre as they were welcomed into the fraternal Order by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzabella, the new apostolic administrator of the Latin patriarchate, in Jerusalem.
Accounting professional Martin McManus, a second-generation Irish American, is receiving the Celtic Cross Award at the 2015 Great Irish Fair of New York.
Banking executive James B. McHugh is receiving the Jerry Forest Memorial Award at the 2015 Great Irish Fair of New York.
Joseph Stile, 97, a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, who was involved in many church and community activities, died peacefully on March 28. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on April 1 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Flatlands. He was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and a member of the Holy Name Society for […]
