Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley, 1937-2022

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With sadness, I report the death of Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley, author of several books on the history of Catholics in the Archdiocese of New Y...
Friday, May 20, 2022

In Six Months, Catholic New York Gone

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Shocking and disappointing news arrived this morning. The archdiocese has announced the closure of the bimonthly (every other week) Catholic...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Appointment of deans

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Yesterday, this list was posted on Catholic New York. Msgr. John Graham has been named dean for the Bronx East, Fr. Enrique Salvo for Bronx...
Thursday, July 9, 2020

Parish schools sudden closure 7.9.2020

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Link to article in The Riverdale Press HERE . St. John's, Kingsbridge Avenue Our Lady of the Assumption, Pelham Bay. Sts. Philip and...
Monday, January 20, 2020

Apartments at St. Philip Neri

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Catholic Charities has received approval for two apartment houses on Villa Avenue, the street that runs behind the church and school of St. ...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Superintendent of Schools Michael Deegan

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Since September, 2019, the Superintendent of the Schools of the Archdiocese of New York has been Michael J. Deegan .

Bronx CCD or religious education

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Fifty-five Bronx parishes reported enrollment numbers for their religious education classes to the Official Catholic Directory 2019. However...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Bronx elementary school statistics

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The Bethpage NY public library has just purchased a copy of the Official Catholic Directory 2019. This analysis is based on the figures repo...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Bronx parish closures & mergers, 2015 in 2019

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It is four years since Cardinal Timothy Dolan closed or merged many parishes in the seven counties of the Archdiocese of New York. This post...
Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Dr. McNiff closes two more schools

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The archdiocese of New York announced on 2.4.2019 that two more Catholic elementary schools in The Bronx will close in June.  They are St. N...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Merger of St. Clare of Assisi and St. Francis Xavier parishes

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Effective today, September 1, 2018, is the merger of two parishes less than a half-mile apart on Hone and Haight Avenues in the Morris Park ...