by Father Robert Lauder AS A NEW YEAR’S gift Father Joe Kelly gave me small paperback book. Father Kelly is a New York Archdiocesan priest who is now assigned as a spiritual director for seminarians in residence at Douglaston. More than 35 years ago when he was a seminarian, he took some of my philosophy […]
I am having an argument with my daughter and I’m hoping you can help. She says that I don’t exercise enough. I do not look obese, and probably am of normal weight. What do you think? She reads The Tablet every week and will listen to your opinion. Exercise Averse in Elmhurst Dear Exercise Averse, […]
Earlier this week we commemorated the Annunciation to Mary of the Incarnation of Christ. With Blessed John Henry Newman, theologian Father Robert Barron has called the Incarnation — the enfleshment of God — the great principle of Catholicism. “The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14) is the Catholic thing. His […]
What a week it has been! Pope Benedict’s historic journey to Mexico and Cuba this past week was a huge undertaking. Not just for the 84-year-old pontiff, but also for our local media here in the diocese. The DeSales Media Group, which produces both The Tablet and NET television, made a strong commitment to covering […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, As I prepared for my fourth trip to Cuba, I was asked by The Tablet Editor Ed Wilkinson to offer some reflections about a place of which I have many fond memories. My origins are from the Archdiocese of Newark, as you know, where there is the […]
Father Peter J. Daly Pope Benedict XVI’s visits to Mexico and Cuba were good things. Both countries are extremely troubled. The Catholic Church in those countries could use the encouragement of the Church’s supreme pastor. I’ve never been to Cuba, but I have frequently been to Mexico and Nicaragua over the past 12 years. We […]
by Antonina Zielinska Catholics from New York State gathered in Albany, March 13, for the New York Catholic Conference’s (NYCC) Catholics at the Capitol, to express their support for issues of interest to N.Y. bishops. “We have a duty to be very active and involved,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan. “America is at her best when […]
Irish Catholic heritage was on display at the 37th annual Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Park Slope on March 18. This year’s theme was “Faith, History, Tribute and Remembrance.” Festivities began with morning Mass, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros at Holy Name Church. Following breakfast in Shepherd’s Hall, local parishes, schools, Knights […]
by Ed Wilkinson Even though she hasn’t made a new movie in more than 50 years, this star of the screen and stage still knows how to take a bow and play to an SRO crowd. Mother Dolores Hart, O.S.B., an actress who co-starred twice with Elvis Presley before she entered cloistered religious life as […]
by Antonina Zielinska In the midst of Lenten preparations, the Polish community of St. Frances de Chantal parish, Borough Park, has erected a statue of Jezus Frasobliwy in the backyard of its church, continuing a tradition practiced in Poland since the beginning of the 16th century. In English, the statue is often referred to as […]
