by Stephen Kent ONCE, WHILE working as the editor of a daily newspaper, I was involved in the annual budget get-together with the publisher and all department heads. It had come to that point in the proceedings when the advertising manager said that he could no longer squeeze another dollar from an already reluctant market. […]
Dear Dr. Garner, My wife and I recently went on a trip to Hawaii. Unfortunately, after the long flight there, I spent my vacation in the hospital with something known as deep vein thrombosis. What is this and how I can ensure this doesn’t happen again? Worried in Williamsburg Dear Worried, For those who don’t […]
by Father John P. Cush IN THE SEMINARY, I had a professor for homiletics named Father John Burke. Father Burke was a Dominican Friar who would come to the North American College in the month of September and run an intensive pastoral workshop for the seminarians on preaching. Not only focusing in on the stylistic […]
by Father Robert Lauder Ninth in a Series REREADING a section of Father James Martin’s The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life (HarperOne, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2010, 432 pages, $26.99), I came upon a page that dealt with three topics that have long interested me. The page reminded me […]
That violence is ineffectual as a means of persuading minds and hearts was a lesson, sadly, in full display last week in Norway. Nothing but a trail of blood and pain are left in the wake of a path of destruction one Anders Behring Breivik chose to travel last Friday. He now sits in an […]
Someone in the newsroom looked at the day’s headlines and said, “Looks like another bad day for the Church!” A glance at the rundown of news can be depressing. President Obama has thrown his support behind legislation pending in both houses of Congress that would repeal the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). This would […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, The tragic death of Leiby Kletzky has been a traumatic experience, not only for his parents and the Jewish community of Brooklyn, but for all who reside in this diocese. The death of an innocent child is something we find hard to accept. We must believe, and […]
by Father Frank Mann I was deeply saddened and stunned when I learned of the recent, sudden (yet perhaps not so unexpected) passing of Amy Winehouse. She was, without doubt, a gifted musician and one of my favorites. Winehouse, only 27 when she died, was a British singer and songwriter who was primarily known for […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Last Saturday, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Msgr. Sean Ogle openly confessed the sin of pride – pride in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, the mother church of Queens, as the Astoria parish marked its 170th anniversary and patronal feast day. “I am very proud of this parish. I know the […]
by Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and appointed Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput to succeed him as head of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The changes were announced July 19 in Washington by Msgr. Jean-Francois Lantheaume, charge d’affaires at the apostolic nunciature in […]
