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.
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, During the feast of St. John Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests, we are called to honor and remember those who have helped shape our lives as Catholics.
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will ordain 10 men to the priesthood for the Diocese of Brooklyn at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, 856 Pacific Street, Prospect Heights, on Saturday morning. You can watch it live on NET TV at 10:30 a.m. “These devoted men are truly a blessing to our Diocese. Their deep faith and different […]
Pope Francis appointed Father Emery Kibal Mansong’loo as the new bishop of the Diocese of Kole in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Meet the nine priests celebrating their 50th anniversaries this year.
Meet the three priests celebrating their 60th anniversaries this year.
Meet the six priests celebrating their 25th anniversaries this year.
Father James M. Gilligan, a native of Brooklyn, will celebrate his 60th anniversary of ordination, and Father Donald P. McQuade, a native of Astoria, will celebrate his 50th anniversary.
The number of Catholics in the world and the number of priests and permanent deacons rose slightly in 2013, while the number of men and women in religious orders declined, according to Vatican statistics.
Following a vocation to the priesthood or religious life is to live an experience of “exodus,” Pope Francis said.
