STATEN ISLAND, N.Y -- The carnival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R.C. Church, West Brighton, was a local highlight at the end of every summer in my youth. That ended after a fire brought down the ...

“But we also do a lot of baptisms, too,” she added. Jarchow has been a parishioner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church for more than 50 years. Among the many weddings and baptisms she’s ...

The feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel entered the Calendar of the universal Church in the early 18th century. Although there is no historical evidence for the pre-Christian Carmelite community ...