22 May 2013
Father James W. Lehr, M.M., a native of Elmhurst, and Father Michael O. Zunno, M.M., of Brooklyn, will celebrate their 60th anniversary of ordination as Maryknoll priests on Sunday, June 23. After ordination, Father Lehr spent the next 44 years serving in the Musoma diocese of Tanzania. He ministered as a parish priest, seminary teacher [...]
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22 May 2013
by Jim Mancari The Breezy Point and Rockaway communities are still feeling the effects of Hurricane Sandy six months after the storm. Of the 2,800 homes, 2,400 remain unoccupied, with residents scattered about the tri-stare area and beyond. About 130 homes burned in one of the largest fires ever witnessed in the state of New [...]
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22 May 2013
A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Kevin J. O’Donoghue, pastor emeritus of St. Cecilia parish, Greenpoint, was celebrated May 24 in the chapel at Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston. He died May 20 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Brooklyn, he attended Cathedral College and Immaculate Conception Seminary, [...]
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22 May 2013
by Jim Mancari The Xaverian H.S., Bay Ridge, community gathered May 1 at El Caribe Country Club, Mill Basin, for the fourth annual Spirit of Xaverian Gala to celebrate alumni members who have made a difference since leaving the halls of the Shore Road school. Nearly 550 guests attended, and four honorees were recognized for [...]
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22 May 2013
by Jim Mancari The diocesan Pastoral Institute commissioned 55 new lay minsters representing 33 parishes on May 16 at a Mass and bilingual ceremony in the chapel at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center, Douglaston. The new lay leaders join nearly 700 lay ministers in the diocese who have successfully completed the three-year program of study, [...]
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22 May 2013
by Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz EARBUG? ACCORDING to www.urbandictionary.com, it’s “a song that’s stuck in your head that you can’t get out for anything.” I have a recurrent seasonal earbug that’s been stuck in my head since second grade and that comes back on Trinity Sunday each and every year. I can even vividly visualize just [...]
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22 May 2013
The Msgr. McClancy, East Elmhurst, choral group, pictured above, under the direction of Theresa Busso and Brother Joseph Rocco, S.C., president, sang the National Anthem at Citi Field, Flushing, May 8 to welcome back a former Crusader, Chicago White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper, ‘74. This was Cooper’s first road trip playing in Queens, since the [...]
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22 May 2013
by George Weigel WITH HIS NEW book, American Church: The Remarkable Rise, Meteoric Fall, and Uncertain Future of Catholicism in America (Ignatius Press), mild-mannered Russell Shaw has become the bull in the china shop of U.S. Catholic history, knocking heroes off pedestals and overturning conventional story lines – all in aid of trying to understand [...]
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22 May 2013
by Father Robert Lauder IN THE MID-1960s, I was in graduate school studying philosophy. Around that time, there was a movement in philosophy referred to as the “Death of God,” which received a considerable amount of attention. As I recall, Time magazine devoted a cover story to it. I was studying at Marquette University for [...]
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22 May 2013
by Dr. Steven Garner, M.D. Dear Dr. Garner, I am one of your biggest fans. I never miss a TV show or Tablet column, so I really hope you can help me. For the past few months, I have been having cramps in my stomach with gas all day. Either I feel constipated or have [...]
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