Just like we did after football season, here are The Tablet’s picks for the Brooklyn/Queens CHSAA boys high school basketball all-stars. The CHSAA basketball season was full of excitement, and the following players deserve to be recognized for their accomplishments on the court. Special thanks to the CHSAA and league coaches for providing stats and […]
St. Joe’s Ice Cream Entrepreneurs Eighth graders at St. Joseph School, Astoria, learned the fundamentals of operating a small business by opening their own ice cream stores at school. Not only did they learn valuable skills: producing a quality product, good customer service, vendor negotiation and accounting skills, but they were also able to […]
by Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz FRIENDS OF MINE who are Yankee fans shook their heads in disbelief when I told them that I once sat next to Jorge Posada and his family on a flight from San Juan to New York and had no idea who he was until the flight was over and the flight […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I have colon cancer, which has spread to other parts of my body, and I am undergoing painful chemotherapy. The worst part is that this all could have been much easier to treat had it been found much earlier. I am now 65 and while my husband went for a colonoscopy when […]
by Father Robert Lauder IT WAS NOT until I began to teach at St. John’s University that I realized how important endowed chairs are at a university. I was part of a committee to have an endowed chair in theology established in honor of my friend and teacher, Father Paul McKeever, shortly after his death. […]
If your Lenten resolutions include bringing food to the homeless, do not take it to any government-run facility in town. You will be turned away. Recently the Bloomberg administration put the kibosh on purveyors of politically incorrect foods; and that would include your mom’s home-cooking, corned beef and cabbage from your parish St. Patrick’s dance […]
What a pleasure it was to once again sit down and chat with Mother Dolores Hart! The occasion was her visit to Woodside where she was a guest speaker at the Communion-breakfast hosted by Corpus Christi parish. Several years ago, Father Frank Mann, my wife Sheila and I drove up to Bethlehem, Conn., where Mother […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, In recent months we have heard more about the so-called separation of church and state. Nowhere in the Constitution does this exist. It originates from Jefferson’s response to some ministers that there should be a wall of separation between church and state. One of our first presidents […]
by Father William J. Byron, SJ Charles Murray’s book “Coming Apart” has provoked a lot of commentary from the left, right, and center of the ideological spectrum. The book’s subtitle, “The State of White America, 1960-2010,” explains to some extent why readers would be curious. But something else is driving the well-deserved attention that Murray’s […]
It was easy being green in Rockaway March 3 as the 37th annual Queens St. Patrick’s Day Parade was held. Events began with Mass celebrated by Msgr. John Brown at St. Francis de Sales Church, Belle Harbor. Parade President Michael Benn said the parade included 10 divisions, over 100 units, 25 school, bagpipe and community bands, […]
