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Police are seeking vandals who beheaded a stone lamb and defaced other elements of a shrine to the Virgin Mary outside of a Catholic girls’ school in Bay Ridge, according to the Daily News. The damage at Visitation Academy at 8902 Ridge Blvd., which was discovered Thursday morning and includes toppled statues of child supplicants as well as the dec...

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As they have for 105 years, the members of the San Rocco di Simbario Society will embark on a five-and-a half-hour procession through the streets of Chicago’s Chinatown to honor the patron saint of their ancestral hometown. In the process, they’ll be celebrating their Catholic faith and maintaining a tradition now entering its fifth generation. “It...

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Much of Msgr. Michael J. Cariglio Jr.’s secular life and sacred life has revolved around his Italian heritage. Cariglio retired earlier this month after 39 years as the pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Youngstown, which later became the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Anthony of Padua Church. The Roman Catholic parish is known for...

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“In Everything, Give Thanks, A History of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis” includes 13 chapters tracing the archdiocese’s earliest beginnings to the present day; 386 pages devoted to each of the 189 parishes in the archdiocese, eight pages on Catholic universities and regional schools, 14 pages honoring convents and monasteries, seven...

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A special ceremony was recently held at the National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania, marking the enthronement of the Holy Face of Manoppello (Abruzzo). This sacred image will now be on permanent display in the American church. The Mass, celebrated on July 15, was led by Bishop Alfred Schlert of the Diocese of Allentown and Father Anton...

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The Feast of San Gennaro will return to downtown Danbury for its fourth annual celebration from Aug. 20–24, featuring food, music, fireworks, and cultural festivities centered on Italian heritage. Organizers have named Antonia “Tonina” Chieffalo as the 2025 Grand Marshal. A longtime Danbury resident and member of the Amerigo Vespucci Lodge for 60 y...

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Summer in Boston’s oldest neighborhood means one thing—it’s time to celebrate Italian-style with the various feasts and processions that take over the area’s ancient, cobblestoned streets. Brought to these shores decades ago by the waves of Italian immigrants that populated the North End beginning in the early 20th century, these religious festival...

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A few days before Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s annual feast, there was some concern if the weather would hold. But at the start of Sunday’s mass, the last gray clouds were long gone — and this has happened many times before in the 135 years of the parish’s history. “If the blessed mother wants it to happen, she’ll make it happen,” said Eric Lavin, a...

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There is a moment when Brooklyn feels like a scene straight out of The Godfather: the band playing, men in white shirts and gold chains, the smell of grilled sausage, and an atmosphere heavy with ancient devotion. In one of its neighborhoods, Williamsburg, under the relentless July sun, along the streets of the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, t...

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On a brisk spring morning in Rimini, I stood in a hushed cathedral with 11 other hikers, waiting for a bishop’s blessing. Ahead lay days of strenuous trekking through Italy’s mountainous Emilia-Romagna region to the Sanctuary of La Verna, a Franciscan monastery in Tuscany. Together we would climb and descend for 75 miles on paths, some rugged and s...

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