Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of many Marian devotions popular among Hispanic Catholics, who make up a large share of the Catholic population in the U.S. — 36% in 2025, up from 29% in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center.
Our Lady of Altagracia
Bishop Encourages Youth at Mass for Our Lady of Altagracia: ‘We Need You’
The high temperature in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, was 86 degrees on Jan. 21, during the feast of Our Lady of Altagracia (High Grace), the preeminent Marian devotion in the Caribbean nation. Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, it was 16 degrees that same evening when hundreds of Catholics from at least a dozen parishes filled the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights to observe the feast with a special Mass.
Transfiguration Welcomes Three New Sisters to Its Community
After three newly-arrived religious sisters from the Dominican Republic led an entrance procession of a Nov. 20 Mass at Transfiguration Parish, Bishop Robert Brennan took a moment to welcome them to the Diocese of Brooklyn.