by Liz O’Connor LEVITTOWN, Pa. (CNS) – The mass media have done the public a disservice by consistently referring to health reform law regulations so narrowly as the “contraceptive mandate,” because it leads people to think the regulations are a matter of interest only to Catholics, according to Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon. Rather, […]
Month: May 2012
Silence – Local Media Examine Pope’s Theme for World Communications Day
by Ed Wilkinson Coordinated by the DeSales Media Group, it was held May 18 at Steiner Studios at the site of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The topic came from the theme of Pope Benedict XVI’s message for World Communications Day, “Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization.” Msgr. Kieran Harrington, Vicar for Communications, opened […]
Former Yankee Belts Blast Against Booze
All is quiet at the Tepedino household in Hauppauge, L.I., at 3 a.m. in late November 1971. But amidst the drone of crickets chirping outside, another sound echoes from the kitchen: ice cubes ricocheting back and forth against the inside walls of a stainless steel cocktail shaker. Frank Tepedino, a professional baseball player, has gotten […]
Three in One Not Easy to Explain
by Msgr. Joseph Calise I was ordained a deacon 33 years ago by His Eminence Laurence Cardinal Sheehan in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at the North American College in Rome. It was coincidentally the Thursday before the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity which meant that the mystery we celebrate today was the […]
Still Impressed by The Catholic Worker
by Father Robert Lauder Last February I gave a lecture at The Catholic Worker in Manhattan. The lecture took place at 55 East 3rd St., which is Mary House, one of the two residences of The Worker has in New York City. I invited myself and offered to give a talk entitled “Personalism: a Philosophy […]
Three In One
The mystery of the Most Blessed Trinity, which we celebrate this Sunday, is central to our Catholic Christian Faith. No other religion at once proclaims that God is both One and Three, sovereign yet personal. Who or what God is itself worthy of praise and awe? Virtually ever religion demands as much. That God, by […]
Catholic Cemetery Offers a Place of Peace
A visit to one of our Catholic Cemeteries never fails to impress. Thousands of Catholics flocked to our cemeteries again last weekend for the annual Memorial Day Field Masses. At St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, L.I., (yes, it’s owned by the Diocese of Brooklyn), Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano, the Vicar General of the Diocese, celebrated the […]
Speaking Out Against Abortion
by Thomas Murawski Sr. Junior Mya Pugh from, Christ the King H.S., Middle Village, is this year’s winner of the high school Culture of Life Oratorical Contest and will represent the Brooklyn Diocese in state-wide competition on May 12 Pugh opened her speech opened with an affirmation of her Pro Life beliefs and commitment. […]
A Tribute to Our Graduates
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, Fifty years ago, I graduated from St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark. It was an honor for me to be invited back this year to my alma mater to deliver the commencement address. This time of the year always reminds me of the great impact that our educational […]
Go to Mass and Express Your Gratitude
by Father William J. Byron, S.J. Over the past year or so, I’ve been studying the decline in Sunday Mass attendance in the Catholic community. An old friend who knew what I was up to recently sent me a letter indicating that he had read an article I wrote based on “exit interviews” with nonchurchgoing […]