Former residents of Ocean Hill-Browsnville, once a thriving Italian-American enclave, are working to save the neighborhood’s struggling church, which is to be demolished next year.
A portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe that left Mexico City two months ago, followed by a procession of pilgrims, arrived at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Friday.
The archbishop José Ricardo Ferreira de Souza, who had helped troubled people from Buenos Aires to Brooklyn, was killed on the Boardwalk at Brighton Beach.
A Harlem pastor and retired police officer said that he was sexually abused as a teenager by Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, the prominent and popular priest.
Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, the highest-placed black cleric in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, is accused of sexual abuse by two former students.
Msgr. Wallace A. Harris, the pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Church in Harlem, has been asked to step down by the Archdiocese of New York amid claims of sexual abuse of a minor.
Sirius Satellite Radio’s new “Catholic Channel” fuses the rough banter of talk radio with its mission to herd people back into the fold of a religious orthodoxy.