The Nativity of St. John the Baptist was commemorated on June 23 with a festive, concelebrated liturgy, at which Capuchin Provincial Fr. Michael Greco was the presider.  In his homily, Fr. Greco referred to this birthday celebration highlighting John’s potential...

The Easter celebration of Jesus’ resurrection proclaims the truth that amid all of the powers on earth that surround us and threaten to engulf us – cultural, financial, political, military, biological or any other – it is the G-D who raised Jesus from the dead who truly reigns in our lives and at the heart of the world...

On Saturday November 6, Provincial Minister Fr. Michael Greco, OFM, CAP presided at a Memorial Mass for 4 Capuchin friars who had served the community at St. John the Baptist. Remarks of remembrance were offered by the current friary staff, brief vignettes which encapsulated an aspect of each friar....

Irish-born Archbishop John Hughes created Manhattan’s Holy Cross Parish in 1852 to serve the thousands of Irish Catholics moving north of lower Manhattan into what became known as Longacre Square (later Times Square) and the developing neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen. Holy Cross maintained a strong Irish American identity into the mid twentieth century and its path charted the transformation of the disciplined folk piety created by the “devotional Revolution” in Ireland in the nineteenth century into an American Catholicism dominated by Irish-American clergy that sought to defend communalistic Catholic distinctiveness amid the rapid urban growth and burgeoning individualistic capitalism of an historically Protestant nation.