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As befitting a diocese known as the Diocese of Immigrants, the ordination of new priests at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights on Saturday, June 1, was an international celebration centered on three men from such faraway places as Brazil, Colombia, and Nigeria and one man who is Vietnamese American.

An auxiliary bishop who fled his native Nicaragua after facing down death threats for criticizing the country’s totalitarian government was at St. Brigid

BUSHWICK, N.Y. (OSV News) -- An auxiliary bishop who fled his native Nicaragua after facing down death threats for criticizing the country’s totalitarian government was at St. Brigid Church in Bushwick in early January, helping the largely Latino community there celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. Auxiliary Bishop Silvio José Báez, a Discalced Carmelite, serves the Archdiocese of Managua in Nicaragua but now lives in exile in Miami after leaving his homeland in 2019 at the request of Pope

The Tablet June 9, 2021 “As these four young men ordained to the priesthood just last week put out into the deep mystery of being priests of God in this complex society and world in which we live today, we accompany them with our prayers,” said Bishop DiMarzio. (Photo: Paula Katinas) My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Last week, the Diocese of Brooklyn was most fortunate to have the Ordination of four new priests to serve here in Brooklyn and Queens. You have seen their profil...

The Tablet May 25, 2021 ‘How Could I Not Get Involved?’ UNION SQUARE — Sean Conaboy is convinced he wasn’t acting alone when he jumped onto a man who was stabbing a woman on a Union Square subway station platform on May 19. “When I reflect back on it, yes, I think God was with me at that moment,” said Conaboy, 52, a devout Catholic who attends Mass at St. Michael’s Church, Sunset Park and is being hailed for heroically saving Kelli Daley’s life in an act — captured by a...

The Tablet May 16, 2021 DeSales Media Group — the communications and technology non-profit operated within the diocese and parent company of The Tablet — put together a six-minute video honoring those members of the religious community celebrating special anniversaries. It was presented on NET-TV immediately following the Mass. The full list of jubilarians can be found on nettv.ny. (Photos: screenshot Diocesan Jubilee Celebration 2020-2021/ NET-TV)   PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Where ther...

The Tablet Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio breathes over the vessel containing the oil in a symbolic gesture representing the Holy Spirit. (Photo: Paula Katinas) This is the full text of the homily preached at the Chrism Mass at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Brooklyn, on March 30. My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, This year, as I celebrate my 50th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination, I share with you my brother priests, especially my fellow Jubilarians, some insights that perhaps I have gathere...

The Tablet April 4, 2021 DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Jesus has risen, and the crowds are back in church! A year after the COVID-19 pandemic closed churches, forcing Catholics to miss Easter Sunday Mass in person, the doors swung open this Easter, and parishioners came back in droves to worship together and share in the glory of the promise of the Resurrection. Even with the 50-percent capacity limit on attendance at churches imposed by New York State as a COVID-19 precaution, churches around t...

View from the Pew-Our Lady of Lourdes Church January 27, 2021 Carmen Cruz has been a parishioner of Our Lady of Lourdes Church for nearly 50 years and can usually be found sitting in a front pew at Mass. She removed her face mask for a moment to pose for this photo. (Photo: Paula Katinas) How Buying a House Across from Church Changed a Woman’s Life QUEENS VILLAGE — Even before Carmen Cruz set foot in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, she felt a connection to the parish. When Cruz and her h...

The Tablet January 19, 2021 Father Alonzo Cox (right), who led the prayer service, said that while African-Americans had not yet reached the promised land of racial justice as King had predicted, “We will get there.” (Photos: Paula Katinas) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Maria Stange has vivid memories of the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. She was only eight years old at the time, but April 4, 1968, is burned into her brain. “It was incredible. People who didn’t even know e...