The Brooklyn Ink

Job Hunting Hard for Long-Time Hospital Worker

When St. Vincent’s Hospital, a private institution, in Manhattan closed its doors amid a citywide uproar in April 2010, medical technician Grace Fuller thought she and other qualified employees would quickly find new jobs. She was wrong.

Foreign Priests Work to Improve their Accents

By Alejandro Lopez de Haro On a recent Saturday evening Father Vincentius Do, 34, is in the midst of performing a Mass in English at Saint Rosalia Roman Catholic Church in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. “You take [...]

Brooklyn Catholics Seek Deliverance

Catholic leaders in New York have named today a “diocesan day of prayer” in the face of diminishing communicants and clergy. The New York Daily News reported Sunday and this morning that the Diocese of [...]

The Sister’s Room

By Stefanos Chen The stairs leading to the fourth floor of the Center for Family Life in Sunset Park are winding and narrow, which is why Sister Mary Paul Janchill used the elevator in her [...]