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Brooklyn Diocese kicks off a year of celebration for the 2025 Jubilee Year

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Dec. 31, 2024 By Lauren Rapp The Diocese of Brooklyn marked the start of a year of celebration last weekend with two special masses and a procession through the streets of Brooklyn.  Bishop Robert Brennan kicked off the Year of Jubilee 2025 on Dec. 29 with a morning mass at the Cathedral Basilica of…

Generations of former students bid farewell to Visitation Academy

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Sep. 9, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Arthur de Gaeta On Sept. 4, for the first time in 169 years, Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge was quiet on the first day of classes. The school permanently closed its doors last summer, with the monastery soon to follow. Generations of alumni attended a Thanksgiving service…

Brooklyn to honor 23rd anniversary of 9/11 attacks with vigils, memorial ceremonies

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Sep. 4, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen Next week marks 23 years since the 9/11 attacks devastated New York City. As the solemn anniversary approaches, Brooklynites are preparing to remember the day and honor its victims.  Events across the borough will pay tribute to all those who died in the attacks and the first responders…