Tag: Diocese of Brooklyn

NEW YORK -- The national kickoff for the annual A-Cross America Relay for Life, began early Aug. 26 in Manhattan, with a group walking...

The man suspected of desecrating St. Joseph Church in Astoria, Queens, in the Diocese of Brooklyn a month ago was arrested Saturday, July 8...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Members of the student orchestra of St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip, N.Y., Bishop Robert J. Brennan’s...

NEW YORK -- The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has determined that allegations of sexual abuse of a minor against Bishop...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn cut the ceremonial ribbon June 10 for a solar-energy project launched to answer Pope Francis’ “urgent...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.  -- Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay of Brooklyn, the first U.S. priest to die from complications of COVID-19, was recalled as "a good and...

WASHINGTON -- Father Christopher Heanue started his morning July 27 by celebrating Mass at 5 a.m. and then took off on a 100-mile bike...

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, New Jersey, and named Father Kevin J. Sweeney, a...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The Diocese of Brooklyn announced March 25 that an elderly parishioner from Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica...

By PETER FINNEY JR. NEW ORLEANS -- Greg Kandra was a good-enough Catholic, observant and Mass-going, although he admits his wife was by comparison the...