{"id":185161,"date":"2026-04-04T04:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185161\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:36:54","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-hundreds-mark-good-friday-with-way-of-the-cross-procession-across-brooklyn-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185161\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Hundreds mark Good Friday with \u2018Way of the Cross\u2019 procession across Brooklyn Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of worshipers gathered in Brooklyn on Friday to take part in the annual \u201cWay of the Cross\u201d procession across the Brooklyn Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration began with a packed prayer service at the Basilica of St. James in Downtown Brooklyn. <\/p>\n<p>Bishop Robert Brennan was joined by New York\u2019s newly appointed Archbishop Ronald Hicks. <\/p>\n<p>Together they led the procession out of the church and onto the Brooklyn Bridge, walking alongside hundreds of worshipers from all over Brooklyn and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is my first time, and to do so in the spirit of unity and prayer and togetherness, it\u2019s the perfect setting,\u201d Archbishop Hicks said.<\/p>\n<p>The procession continued toward City Hall, stopping at several churches along the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of worshipers gathered in Brooklyn on Friday to take part in the annual \u201cWay of the Cross\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[54010,98,100,99,3076,74084,9,24,63,74454],"class_list":{"0":"post-185161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-archbishop","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-downtown-brooklyn","13":"tag-good-friday","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-way-of-the-cross"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}