When readers of The Universe pick up their favorite paper every week at Mass, Catholics in an historic New York neighborhood can read the latest news from the UK and Ireland as well.
Each week, The Universe makes its way across the pond to a most unique parish. For some time now, one loyal reader of the paper has been leaving a copy on a table in the back of Our Lady of Mt Carmel parish in the Bronx.
The table is a location where parishioners regularly leave Catholic publications of which they have finished so others may read them.
Since there are many Italians still in the parish, it is not uncommon to see magazines such as Il Rosario, Il Santo dei Miracoli and several other Italian-language religious publications.
As can be expected, there are English-language missionary magazines and the like left as well.
The Church of Our Lady of Mt Carmel is located at 627 East 187 Street, in the middle of what is known as “the Belmont section” of the Bronx or
“Little Italy in the Bronx” (as opposed to Manhattan’s famous Little Italy).
The neighborhood is also referred to as “the Arthur Avenue section”, after the its famous shopping area. The parish is set two streets below Arthur Avenue, which is the main street in the area, and is famous throughout the whole of the New York City metropolitan area. Read more..
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