DENVER (CNS) – Supreme Knight Carl Anderson announced Aug. 2 that the Knights of Columbus will purchase the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington. The announcement came during the business session of the Knights’ 129th annual convention, Aug. 2-4. Anderson, delivering his annual report, said that over the next year, the fraternal organization […]
Month: August 2011
Ready for Madrid – World Youth Day Commissioning Celebrated at Pastoral Center
by Antonina Zielinska Less than a week before World Youth Day pilgrims from the Brooklyn Diocese boarded planes for Spain, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano met with them and celebrated a sending off Mass at Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston. “Today we begin our spiritual journey,” Bishop DiMarzio told the pilgrims during the […]
Maryland Moving Toward Same-Sex Marriage In Spite of Archbishop
by George P. Matysek Jr. BALTIMORE (CNS) – Two days before Gov. Martin J. O’Malley announced his decision to sponsor legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore sent him a private letter urging O’Malley, a Catholic, to refrain from promoting the redefinition of marriage. “I am well aware that the […]
Salvadoran Soldiers Indicted For Killing Jesuits in 1989
SAN SALVADOR (CNS) — Nine former soldiers in El Salvador’s army have surrendered to authorities, three months after their indictment in Spain for the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter during the country’s 12-year civil war. The ex-military members turned themselves in at a military base Aug. 8 and were […]
Shrine Is One of D.C.’s Favorite Tourist Sites
by Sara Angle WASHINGTON (CNS) – As the nation’s capital, Washington has been visited by millions since its official founding July 16, 1790. With sites such as the Washington Monument, White House, the Capitol, Library of Congress, the National Archives, Smithsonian museums, and countless monuments and cultural happenings, tourists from across the world come to […]
Bensonhurst Cluster Celebrates
St. Dominic’s parish, Bensonhurst, celebrated a cluster-wide observance of its patronal feast day that included morning prayer, Eucharistic adoration, vespers, and an evening Mass followed by a reception in the parish hall. It was a first for the parish, and the cluster. Shown with attendees are Father John Tino, foreground, and Father Michael Bruno, parochial […]
Freedom of Conscience Under Attack
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – When it comes to issues of religious freedom, Bill Donohue thinks the Obama administration has put religious employers between a rock and a hard place. The president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights was among Catholics across the political spectrum commenting on the Department of […]
Baseball Still the Life For Former MLB Pitcher
Ever since he picked up a baseball for the first time, the aptly named Fred Cambria from Cambria Heights knew that his future would be in the game he loved. While baseball took him all the way to the Major Leagues, the stops along the way made him the passionate baseball guru he is. To […]
Battling the Savage Beast of Depression
by Father Frank Mann RECENTLY, I headed to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the extraordinary exhibition titled, “Savage Beauty.” It turned out that I was one of the countless droves of enthusiastic folk found sweating their way through a two-hour line to enter the much anticipated event. The enthralling exhibit, the […]
Unique Conduits of God’s Grace
by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk A CATHOLIC physician once related to me a powerful story about one of his patients, who had just received a diagnosis of advanced, metastatic cancer and had a relatively short time left to live. The patient mentioned to the doctor that he was Catholic but had drifted away from the Church […]