by Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – In a Nov. 4 speech at the University of Notre Dame, the apostolic nuncio to the U.S. warned that the “menace to religious liberty is concrete on many fronts” today particularly “within your own homeland.” Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, speaking in South Bend, Ind., at a university-sponsored conference on […]
Month: November 2012
Pope Sends Congratulations To Obama
by Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on his re-election, saying that he prayed the ideals of freedom and justice that guided America’s founders might continue to flourish. The Vatican did not make public the full text of the pope’s telegram to Obama, which was sent via […]
Be Quiet! Listen!
Noise – it has been suggested – is the home country of today’s generation. Noise is where we live, whether we know it, admit it, like it – or not. Evidence of this is the discomfort that so many experience with the presence of silence. We say “presence” because silence is more than just the […]
Trade Your Anxieties for Joyful Anticipation of the Lord’s Coming
by Father Caleb Buchanan “My Lord, what a morning! My Lord, what a morning! My Lord, what a morning, when the stars begin to fall!” This beautiful hymn is sung during the Advent season in many places because it stirs our hearts to anticipate the day of the coming of the Lord, the Parousia, […]
Pope Offers Insights into Our Lord
by Father Robert Lauder First in a series Having enjoyed, indeed having been inspired by Pope Benedict’s book, Jesus of Nazareth, I knew that I had to read the second volume, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011, pp. 362). When I read […]
Keeping Angina Stable Forestalls Heart Attacks
Dear Dr. Garner, I am having a problem with my heart. I am in good shape (or at least I thought so) and take pills for my blood pressure and also for chest pains I have had when exercising or at times when I get very aggravated. Lately, the chest pain has become worse when […]
Obituary — Carol Elizabeth Brostek
Carol Elizabeth Brostek of Flushing died Nov. 9. A lifelong resident of Queens, she was a graduate of Queens College, Bishop McDonnell H.S., Crown Heights, and St. Mary’s Nativity School, Flushing. She served on reunion committees of her college and high school alumni organizations, and she was also a devoted and and active member of […]
Obituary — Sister Marie Julie Condon, S.S.N.D.
Sister Marie Julie Condon, S.S.N.D., who taught school for more than 20 years before adopting a pastoral ministry focusing on the elderly, died of cardiac arrest Nov. 3 at Lourdes Health Care Center, Wilton, Conn. She was 83 and had been a professed member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame for 63 years. Born […]
Obituary — Father John Harfmann, S.S.J.
Father John G. Harfmann, S.S.J., a member of the Josephite Fathers for 50 years, died Oct. 30 at St. Joseph Manor, Baltimore, Md., after a long illness. He was 77. A Mass of Christ the High Priest was celebrated Nov. 7 at St. Peter Claver Church, Baltimore. Born in Brooklyn, he was baptized in Our […]
Obituary — Sister Mary Terence Rogers, C.S.J.
Sister Mary Terence Rogers, C.S.J., a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, for 73 years, died in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, Oct. 25. She entered the congregation from St. Benedict Joseph parish, Richmond Hill, in 1940. She studied Spanish at Catholic University of Puerto Rico, Ponce, and earned a bachelor’s […]