Over the last few years, pickleball has been one of the fastest-growing sports in the country. Recently, in Queens Deanery No. 4, pickleball served as the backdrop for a community event that brought parishioners from neighboring churches together.
St. Mel – Flushing Queens
Catholic Virtue of Patience Key for Mets Groundskeeper
St. Mel parishioner Nick Baker works as a member of the New York Mets grounds crew.
Catholic Woman from Queens Fights for Troubled Uyghurs
A lawyer from Queens says there is credible evidence of abuses suffered by Uyghurs in China, including forced labor camp internments, forced abortions, sexual abuse, and mandatory sterilizations of women via surgically-placed IUD devices.
Former Firefighter Is a Local Inventor
More than a decade ago in 2009, a new H1N1 influenza virus emerged, causing the first global flu pandemic in 40 years. It was during the following 15-month-long period that the public became more conscientious and exercised extra health and safety precautions.
Parishioners Help Churches Start With a Clean Slate Each Week
Cleanliness is next to godliness, as the old saying goes. At churches all over the Diocese of Brooklyn, parishioners take that famous adage seriously by volunteering to clean churches.
Faithful Follow Guidelines in Return to Sunday Mass at Church of St. Mel
Welcome back.
That was the message to parishioners at the Church of St. Mel in Flushing, Queens, as in-person Sunday Masses returned to the Diocese of Brooklyn for the first time since mid-March.
Good Friday Procession at St. Mel’s Parish
Saint Mel’s parish, Flushing, held the traditional Good Friday’s Processione del Cristo Morto e dell’Addolorata (Procession with the Dead Christ and Our Lady of Sorrows).
Youth Views: Your thoughts leading into World Youth Day?
The Tablet asks students from around the Diocese of Brooklyn a question for the opinion section of the Youth page. This week: World Youth Day Panama pilgrims.
Pilgrims Receive Blessing Before Heading to Panama
It was their last official act of preparation before their spiritual and physical pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Panama – local pilgrims attended a Mass of Sending at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston.
New Principals
Several elementary academies and schools are welcoming new principals and assistant principals this September.