Despite an afternoon downpour drenching the 90th Street Triangle on Sunday, Sept. 29, people showed up to a protest against sex trafficking along a three-mile stretch of Roosevelt Avenue. Organizers would soon announce that the “Roosevelt Avenue in Crisis: Demand Change Now!” rally would be rescheduled for 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 6 — again at the 90th Street Triangle.
Lent, the period of reflection and repentance as Catholics prepare for the coming of Easter, is also known as a season of change. Deacon Dan Maher, of Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians Church in Woodside, could probably tell you a lot about change.
Police request the public’s help to catch a man who reportedly bluffed his way into American Martyrs Parish Sunday, March 3, and took $900 in cash.
Every day of his 45-year NYPD career, former Chief of Department Joseph Esposito put on his uniform and went to work eager to serve the people of New York. Even during the city’s darkest days, such as 9/11 and its aftermath, he was on the front lines.
St. Bartholomew Catholic Academy has young students, but the children who were in the school gym on Thursday, Oct. 12, were far too young for class. After all, they were just babies and toddlers and their first day of school is still a long way off. However, the little ones and their parents were there for an important purpose.
The war in Israel is being felt here at home. Concerned about the possibility of protest demonstrations on Friday, Oct. 13, and the possibility of erupting violence, the Diocese of Brooklyn allowed Catholic academies the chance to decide to conduct classes remotely that day.
The former adjunct professor whose tirade against pro-life students at a Hunter College information table went viral last spring has pleaded guilty to menacing and harassment for confronting a New York Post reporter and photographer with a machete after they tried to question her outside her Bronx apartment about the encounter with the students.
MaryAnn Maginnis said she must wait until eternity to smother her husband, Peter, with affection — right after she socks him. She helped organize the first-ever Mass Sept. 28 in Brooklyn to honor officers like Peter who died of suicide.
The former adjunct professor who confronted pro-life students at an information table at Hunter College and was then charged with menacing a New York Post reporter with a machete last spring has apparently found a new teaching job.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York told OSV News the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, which will be marked with solemn ceremonies across the U.S., should be observed with memories of lives lost and impacted by the day’s events.
