About 3,000 speakers of Chinese languages attend Sunday Mass in the Diocese of Brooklyn. However, priests who speak Mandarin and Cantonese say they need help — specifically, more bilingual clergy and volunteers to help serve this growing community.

About 3,000 speakers of Chinese languages attend Sunday Mass in the Diocese of Brooklyn. However, priests who speak Mandarin and Cantonese say they need help — specifically, more bilingual clergy and volunteers to help serve this growing community.
Visitors to the Chapel of Mary, Mother of the Unborn, write their appeals for intercession and profound gratitude for answered prayers in the chapel’s “Book of Life.”
For anyone seeking proof of modern-day miracles, the Basilica of Regina Pacis has plenty of examples on display — thousands of them, in fact — in its Chapel of Mary, Mother of the Unborn.
At St. Rosalia-Basilica of Regina Pacis Parish at the border of Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, Mass is celebrated each week in English, Italian, Mandarin, and Spanish. Msgr. Ronald Marino grew up in a family of Italian heritage just a few blocks from the basilica.