Dear Dr. Garner, Bathing suit season is in full swing and we’re all more conscious about how we look when we head to the beach or pool. All my life I have been a little heavy in the hip and behind area. I actually look a little like Jennifer Lopez. My husband tells me that […]
Seventh in a series I have just re-read a few pages about prayer in 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) and Father Martin’s reflections on prayer speak powerfully to me. His struggles with prayer seem a mirror […]
At last Sunday’s Angelus, Pope Benedict XVI, reflecting on the Gospel about the sower, addressed his outdoor audience on Christ’s use of parables. God, the Holy Father remarked, does not force us to believe in Him, for He always respects our freedom. Yet His thirst for our souls invites Him to draw us in by […]
This week’s cover story about the cloistered Servants of the Lord and the Virgin of Matará Sisters in Flatlands who sewed penitential stoles for the upcoming World Youth Day is the kickoff of our coverage of the historic event which will take place in Madrid, Spain, Aug. 16-21. Between now and the opening ceremonies, The […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, The world was forever changed on July 14th. Bastille Day marked the opening of the French Revolution and the ushering in of an era of radical secularism. The only law that mattered in the late 18th-century France was the law of the mob and as so it […]
by Carmella Dearing Ministry is the key to serving God by enriching the lives of others in a particular way. Our call to service begins at our baptism when we are enlightened by Christ and the Holy Spirit. With the help of the Spirit and the angels associated with the Pastoral Institute’s Lay Ministry Program, […]
CK’s Newest Hall of Famers Christ the King Regional H.S., Middle Village, inducted six alumni, former staff and friends into its Hall of Fame this spring. Above, top row, from left, Principal Peter Mannarino and members of CK’s Board of Trustees, Robert Normandia, vice chairman; Dolores St. Louis, executive assistant; Serphin Maltese, chairman; and Bernard […]
by Antonina Zielinska Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio used the annual Diocesan World Communications Day luncheon to announce his plans to merge diocesan communications efforts into a single entity to be named the DeSales Media Group. The new company will combine the ministries of The Tablet, NET TV, and the Catholic Television Network along with new media […]
Parishioners from St. Matthew, St. Gregory the Great and Our Lady of Charity, all in Crown Heights, came together in Brower Park as a recently formed single parish under the name of St. Matthew, to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi and to proclaim to everyone around that Jesus is “dynamite.”
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – It was a fight involving an age-old definition of marriage, with several Catholics playing key roles. But in the end, the effort to stop a same-sex marriage bill in the New York Legislature came down to money and political favors – neither of which were at the disposal […]
