Pope Francis established the fourth Sunday of July as the annual World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. Bishop John Barres, of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, commissioned the Office of …
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7/28/21
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Five and a half years ago, Monsignor Richard Figliozzi invited the Pope Francis Hospitality Center to operate a food pantry and soup kitchen out of the former St. Vincent de Paul School in Elmont. …
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By Melissa Koenig
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9/26/19
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Not many people would regard the diagnosis of a serious autoimmune disorder as good news. But for Meredith Kass, 17, learning she had systemic lupus erythematosus was far preferable to her doctors’ original suspicion — lymphoma.
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By Timothy Denton
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10/26/18
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The leader of Long Island’s Catholics recently supported the need to “aggressively uproot this scourge and expression of a culture of death of clergy sexual abuse” following allegations that have reached the Vatican.
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By Ben Strack
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9/6/18
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At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, Mayor Tim Tenke moved, and the council voted, to table four nominations to the Glen Cove finance committee after Councilwoman Marsha Silverman objected to one of …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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8/30/18
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President Trump’s first foreign trip last week broke historic ground on a number of fronts. His first stop, in Saudi Arabia, was particularly noteworthy. The past several administrations . . .
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6/1/17
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The devil hands him a bowl of Dutch Masters cigars. A baby gives him a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor.
Dressed in pope’s garb, Masta Maudz uses the foil-wrapped sticks of tobacco to stir the …
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By Peter Belfiore
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5/24/17
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Expressing his desire to bring together a diverse community and spread the mission of the Catholic Church, Bishop John Barres was introduced as the fifth bishop of the Rockville Centre Diocese at the …
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By Brian Kacharaba
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12/9/16
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High ranking members of the Rockville Centre Police Department met with roughly two dozen local bar and restaurant owners at town hall on Nov. 16 to discuss liquor license regulations and ways to …
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By Peter Belfiore
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11/23/16
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Last week, Molloy College welcomed Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, who gave a talk focusing on Pope Francis’s encyclical about the environment.
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By Alex Costello
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3/2/16
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