As St. Edmund Prep, Sheepshead Bay, begins its 80th school year, upperclassmen continued the school’s tradition of welcoming the stranger. Upperclassmen who are members of the mentors program volunteered their time to make sure the freshmen had a positive start to their high school career. The mentors helped them find classrooms, open locks, get new […]
Holy Cross H.S., Flushing, celebrated the start of the 2012-2013 school year with a Mass of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Cross community including the student body, alumni, parents, faculty and friends came together to ask the Holy Spirit for a fruitful school year. In his homily, Father Walter Jenkins, C.S.C., president, spoke about the […]
by Father Robert Lauder IN HIS BOOK, Personalism (University of Notre Dame: Notre Dame, translated by Philip Mairet, 1952, $2.25, pp. 132) Emmanuel Mounier, whose philosophical vision greatly influenced Dorothy Day, stresses that love is creative of distinction. Some poetry and love songs can give the impression that lovers lose their identities in one another. […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I am very embarrassed by a medical problem I have. Every time I eat, I develop the most severe pains in my stomach area. Also, I either have the immediate urge to have a bowel movement or am totally constipated. I am 20 years old, and this problem hampers my work and […]
Known as the “Ambassadors of Goodwill,” the Harlem Globetrotters have combined an entertaining style of basketball with a broader community service mission for over 85 years. The Globetrotters brought their goodwill to Brooklyn on Sept. 18 by visiting Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope, for an anti-bullying and violence prevention assembly. This event marked the first […]
Experience alone should allay anxieties that one need tote around a Bible — or, for that matter, a Quran or a Bhagavad Gita — to know right from wrong. And even accepting the premise of the sometime conversation-stopping “it’s not in the Bible” fatwa, just to know a specific precept may be found in the […]
Msgr. Philip Reilly and the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants have stopped praying outside the Brooklyn Ambulatory Surgery Center in Sunset Park. For the past 22 years, the priest and his devoted group of pray-ers have been seeking an end to abortion at the Brooklyn site. Their prayers have been heard. The new owners of […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, This is the first of a series of columns pertaining to the November elections. As Americans, we find ourselves in the heat of the political campaign season and may feel a bit overwhelmed by all the rhetoric, advertisements, direct mail, Facebook postings, e-mails and telephone calls. Like […]
by Father Peter J. Daly Every day brings a new parade of mental illness to our door. We see schizophrenia, manic-depression, schizoaffective disorder, major depression, drug addiction and just plain craziness. They come by phone, by car, by foot, by bicycle and by e-mail. Here they come with all their troubles. They dump them at […]
Astoria School Remembers the Fallen On Sept. 11, 2012, the students and faculty of St. Francis of Assisi School, Astoria, gathered together in the schoolyard to salute the American flag and pray for peace in remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (Photo courtesy St. Francis of Assisi School) So […]
