On the weekend of Jan. 28-29, St. Augustine’s parish in the Morrisania section of the Bronx held an afternoon of fellowship and thanksgiving on Saturday and then hosted a final Mass celebrated by its pastor, Father Thomas Fenlon, in the auditorium of its former school. After Mass, parishioners of St. Augustine processed about a mile to Our Lady of Victory Church on Webster Avenue where Auxiliary Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan, vicar general, led Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to mark the merger of the two parishes. The new parish will be known as St. Augustine-Our Lady of Victory parish. more

St. Mary’s parish in Washingtonville made history at this year’s March for Life in Washington, D.C. more

Ending a five-year struggle, the state’s highest court ruled unanimously that the archdiocese has the right to demolish the 100-year-old Our Lady of Vilnius Church near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan. more

The 39th annual March for Life will take place Monday, Jan. 23, in Washington, D.C., and tens of thousands of pro-life marchers from New York and around the country are planning to make the trip to the nation’s capital to call for protection under the law for human life at all stages. more

When Father Salvatore Sportino first arrived at St. Joseph’s parish in the Bronx two years ago as an administrator, he’d look out on most Sundays at a sparse congregation of 80 to 85 people scattered in the pews. more

St. Patrick’s parish in Newburgh is like the New York Archdiocese in miniature. It has served generations of hard-working immigrants, and it still is welcoming newcomers. It has been blessed with … more

Father Gregory C. Chisholm, S.J., smiles broadly in St. Charles Borromeo Church, where area priests and deacons applaud his installation as pastor Dec. 4. more

The St. Denis Men’s Ministry prayer meeting begins at 7 a.m. each Saturday morning. By that time, the men are already walking up the center aisle of the parish church in Hopewell Junction, well into the first decade of the Rosary they are reciting. more