A group of diocesan priests recently made a spiritual retreat in Assisi, Italy. They are shown after celebrating Mass at the Tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi. Shown, from left, are: Msgr. Al LoPinto, Father Robert Czok, Msgr. Thomas Marin of the Archdiocese of Miami, Msgr. Otto Garcia, Father Thomas Vassalotti, Father Hilaire Belizaire, Father […]
Month: April 2012
Estate Planning Conference
At a recent Estate Planning Conference were, top from left, Msgr. Austin Bennett, Hon. Louis Laurino, Attorneys Michael Ryan, Mindy Trepel, Sharon Cheng, Lawrence Murphy, Karen Yost, Andrea Hyde, Thomas Rice, Kevin Kearney and camera shy, Steven Finkelstein. Below, from left, are Lawrence Murphy, Esq., with Surrogates Hon. Edward Mc Carty, III, Nassau County; Hon. […]
Key Points in ‘Liberty’ Document
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Here are some key points raised in “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty: A Statement on Religious Liberty” by the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty:. • American Catholics should not have to choose between being Catholics and being Americans. • Attacks on religious liberty have real-world consequences. • Religious liberty […]
The Catholic Evangelist
What is the most important thing every Catholic can do in order to saved? The answer has not changed in 2,000 years: don’t just keep the faith, spread it! The post-resurrection accounts of the appearances of Jesus carry a remarkably clear and consistent impulse to spread the Gospel. In much the same way as Mark […]
Home of the Free Isn’t So Free These Days
I drove to Philadelphia last week just to take a break for a few days. Tolls on the way down came to $24.50. Coming back, they amounted to $16. That’s $40 for the right to travel from one city to another. While in the City of Brotherly Love, we stayed at a nice hotel with […]
Obituaries
Sister Louis Marie Biechele, C.S.J., 94, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, died in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, April 2, in the 75th year of her religious life. She entered the congregation in 1938 from St. Brendan parish, Midwood After earning degrees in Math from St. John’s University and extended […]
What Can Be Done About Catholics Leaving the Church?
by Father Robert Barron I saw an advance copy of a survey by Father William J. Byron, S.J., and Charles Zech, which will appear in the April 30 edition of “America” magazine. It was conducted at the request of Bishop David O’Connell, the Bishop of Trenton, and its focus was very simple: it endeavored to […]
CHSFL Shines as a League of Its Own
Though it’s now baseball season, football is quickly becoming America’s new pastime. We are lucky here in N.Y.C. to have some of the state’s top high school programs right in our own backyard. The Catholic High School Football League (CHSFL) of Metropolitan New York isn’t your average high school league. With teams spanning from New […]
The Black and White of Good and Bad
by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk One widely-encountered idea today is that there is no black and white when it comes to morality, only a kind of “gray area.” This is often taken to mean that we really can’t know with certainty what is right and wrong, allowing us to “push into the gray” as we make […]
Change By The Power of the Cross
by Father James Rodriguez People don’t change. That is the lie that most of us have been trained to believe, perhaps from our own personal experience, or from the brokenhearted warnings of others. People don’t change. It is easy to believe. After all, who among us has not been hurt before? Who among us finds […]