Bill Miller

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.

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. 

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. 

Surprises awaited students — early childhood to eighth grade — as they climbed the stairs into Incarnation Catholic Academy on Sept. 4 — the first day of classes for the new academic year. Greeting them in the hallway was their new principal, Dr. Ivan Green, along with Father Josephjude Gannon, the school’s board chairman, and Bishop Robert Brennan.

Maria Notaro of La Guli Pastry Shop in Astoria has revised her cookie recipe that commemorated Pope Francis’s 2015 visit to New York City. She recently shared a batch of the treats with people trying to grow in the faith, even while incarcerated at Rikers Island.

Bill Lauto, a Long Island-based environmental scientist, wants the world to rethink enduring beliefs that the Shroud of Turin is a fraud concocted by medieval hoaxers. And now, a team of Italian researchers who conducted dating work on a sample of the Shroud of Turin, the linen cloth believed by some to have been Jesus Christ’s burial shroud, have confirmed the relic can be traced back almost 2,000 years.

The unveiling of the first in a series of statues of Blessed Father Michael McGivney spurred joyous enthusiasm Tuesday, Aug. 13 upon its arrival at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights.

Team USA’s roster brings accomplished Catholic athletes to the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad. Here are six who will be competing in Paris.

Survivors of human trafficking may have escaped lives of forced labor, servitude, or even violent sex slavery, but post-traumatic stress can persist.

A raucous crowd of more than 200 people filled the 8400 block of Third Avenue on June 24 to make sure local elected officials heard their voices, loud and clear, in strong opposition to an application to open a legally licensed cannabis dispensary there.