After growing up in Brooklyn, Nolan Adams will be returning to the borough in which his basketball career commenced. Adams was recently named as the new men’s basketball head coach of the NYU-Poly Fighting Blue Jays from Downtown Brooklyn. He is a lifelong member of Good Shepherd parish, Marine Park, and attended St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead […]
For the last 30 years, Holy Week observances in the Brooklyn Diocese have not been complete without the annual Caminata de los Jornadistas, or Walk of the Jornadistas. The diocesan Jornada Movement marked the 30th anniversary of this sacrificial walk observing Christ’s final pilgrimage to Mt. Calvary, on Holy Saturday, April 23. Hispanic and Latino […]
Ecclesia semper reformanda —the Church must always be reformed. Remember that from Vatican II? Liturgical renewal may seem a far cry from sweeping Church reformation but it is no less continual and inevitable. Are there not still some older Catholics who remember the unsettling speed — for others not soon enough — with which significant […]
Second in a Series “READING FAITH MAPS: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger” (Paulist Press) by Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J., has brought back some wonderful memories. Back in the early 1970s, while I was teaching at what was then Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, I was part of a team-taught […]
By Fr. Thomas Catania HAD HE BEEN ABLE to foresee the proliferation of lawyer jokes in subsequent centuries, John the Evangelist might not have been so quick to transpose his insight into what the abiding presence of the Risen Jesus meant to believers into lawyer-ly terms. For, although it is open to a variety of […]
By Msgr. Walter Murphy The Fort Greene area and its Catholic parishes have undergone drastic change over the past 60 years, in particular Sacred Heart parish, now part of Mary of Nazareth parish. Through the years, Sacred Heart has always had its movers and shakers – laity, religious and clergy who moved the parish along, […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I really hope you can help me. I am writing this letter at about 4 a.m. — another night without sleep and constant worrying. My problem is that I worry about everything. My husband is a police officer and I have two young children in school. I worry about their safety and […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Several years ago in one of my columns, I spoke about the Memorial Day weekend, which, unfortunately, seems to have lost its original meaning. For many, it has become just another long weekend, which of course is very much appreciated. In addition, this weekend marks the unofficial […]
