Bill Miller

On the evening of Thursday, April 4, 1968, Donna Grimes was eagerly anticipating her 12th birthday when chaos erupted in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

As a hospital chaplain, Father Bryan Carney regularly encountered death while giving last rites, but just two months ago, his own mortality loomed.

Ascending to an upper floor of the Italian American Museum’s new building on Mulberry Street brings one face-to-face with the heroes and villains of epic poetry from the Great Renaissance.

George Washington, an American Revolution military hero and the nation’s first president, seldom mentioned the Lord Jesus Christ in speeches, conversations, or writings. Yet Washington, “The Father of His Country,” often talked and wrote about “providence” — that guiding and protective care of a creator God.

Father Dwayne Davis stood in the “Door of No Return” on Gorée Island, Senegal, and imagined the fate of Africans swept into the Atlantic slave trade.

Taking a cue from the recently completed Synod on Synodality, the Diocese of Brooklyn has commenced meetings to gather members of various parishes to get their input on possible mergers. The first two “Pastoral Planning Information Sessions” were held Oct. 23 at St. Thomas Aquinas in Flatlands, Brooklyn, and Oct. 29 at St. Nicholas of Tolentine in Jamaica, Queens. 

While the name James Tissot may not be as famous as fellow French artist Edgar Degas or the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, he was revered by them. For over a century, the Brooklyn Museum has been home to his art. The institution acquired his collection of faith paintings, “The Life of Christ,” in 1900. Last month, the museum began displaying two of the watercolors in a special exhibition to celebrate the museum’s 200th anniversary.

People sexually abused by clergy are on a journey that can sometimes seem like two steps forward and one step back. That’s according to one survivor who attended the annual Mass of Hope and Healing on Oct. 24 at St. Pancras Parish in Glendale, Queens. 

The St. Kateri Institute, based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is raising money to replace a bell blasted from one of the towers of the Urakami Cathedral in the Aug. 9, 1945 attack on Nagasaki.

New York’s Catholic bishops are warning that the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the state’s constitution is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that endangers the unborn and could degrade parental rights.