When the late Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, a group of students at Elmhurst’s Cathedral Prep Seminary, the only remaining high school seminary in the United States, reflected on the possibility they would one day consider the priesthood. Patrice Legoute was at the time a 15-year-old junior, who said he dreamed since […]
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New Yorkers Mourn Pope Francis, the ‘Pope of the People’
"Until the last day of his life he was a messenger of hope,” said Bishop Robert Brennan speaking to an afternoon crowd of churchgoers in Brooklyn Monday.
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Faith-Based Immigrant Helpers ‘Unclear’ and Uninspired After Meeting With Mayor
Two New Yorkers, President-elect Donald Trump and Mayor Eric Adams, have local clergy questioning what ‘sanctuary’ will mean in the future.
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Brooklyn Diocese Demotes Monsignor Who Sent Millions to Adams Advisor
Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello bumped from running Williamsburg parish following probe on cash transfers to firms of ex-City Hall chief of staff Frank Carone. A scandalous Sabrina Carpenter video shoot didn’t help.
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Iftar Meals a Comfort to Muslim Migrants Navigating a New World
While “it doesn’t feel like Ramadan” to many North and West Africans observing the holy month for the first time in New York City, mosques and community groups in Astoria and around the city are trying to provide some community and comfort.
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Park Slope Priest Evicts Food Pantry From Struggling Catholic Church
Exodus of volunteer operations from Saint Augustine follows the arrival of new leadership and an end to Creole and Spanish services.
Posted inPolitics
Palestinian New Yorkers Feel Both Targeted and Ignored
At a rally on Friday and over the week, they shared fears about family across the world and about life here.
Posted inHigher Ed
Shaken Yeshiva University Students Mourn and Question
Jewish undergraduates at the school’s Manhattan campuses mobilize aid efforts and wait warily for Israel’s next move.
Posted inReligion
Greenpoint Residents Ask Judge to Spare Church That Hosted Culture and Community
The Park Church sanctuary had served north Brooklyn for more than a decade, offering performance space, day care, a soup kitchen and a homeless shelter.
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Adams Praises Yeshivas as City Hall Fights to Conceal School Assessments
The mayor said that the public system that’s failing to educate Black and brown kids should be “duplicating” what the Jewish religious schools are achieving. But his istration is battling to keep evaluations of 26 such schools under wraps.