Month: November 2012
Nov. 7 — A Call for Help in Queens
St. Helen’s Church, Howard Beach, has set up a post-Hurricane Sandy emergency supply shelter, which is serving hundreds of residents without heat or power in Howard Beach and the surrounding neighborhoods. Thousands of families and senior citizens are still without power or heat. Many have nowhere else to stay except for their flooded homes. St. Helen’s […]
Who Could Have Predicted This Disaster?
It’s been more than a week since Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast of the United States, and still sections of the world’s greatest city are at a standstill, having to deal with no electricity, no heat, no gasoline, traffic congestion and water damage that you could not have imagined. The media have well documented […]
Bent, Broken and Powerful
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has brought many memories to mind of similar situations of the past, most recently the earthquake in Haiti, as well as my personal involvement in the Italian earthquakes of the Irpinia region in Southern Italy in 1980 and in L’Aquila in 2009. […]
Maspeth Youth Learn from Year of Faith
by Katie McCague The combined youth ministry of St. Stanislaus Kostka and Transfiguration parish, Maspeth, took to heart Pope Benedict XVI’s call to learn the teachings of the Catholic Church through the Year of Faith. They held a prayer service to help them better understand the feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Father Paul […]
A Super Hero in Seventh Grade
The Atlantic Ocean, the Sahara Desert and Mt. Everest combined could not keep Mikesha Withanachchi from helping her fellow girls in Sri Lanka. Withanachchi, a seventh-grade student in Sacred Heart school, Bayside, asked her principal, Dennis Farrell, to send a letter to the school community with a request. She wanted to ask for assistance in […]
Youth Views: How do you think technology will advance in the next 10 years?
Patience and Hope
What we have seen and experienced in the last two weeks has been mind-numbing. Since we have weathered many hurricanes in the past, it is hard to believe that such a storm could create such havoc in our communities as Sandy did. There is a wide gap among the kinds of pain we all have […]
We Have Everlasting Faith in a Loving and Eternal God
by Father Caleb Buchanan “Indeed for your faithful, Lord, life is changed not ended.” That’s the way we Catholics see the world. As we have just celebrated the Feast of All Souls, we know through faith that death is not the last word in and over our lives. Our sinfulness, famines, droughts, war, terror, […]
Philosophy and Religion
by Father Robert Lauder Teaching philosophy at St. John’s University, I frequently encounter students who do not have a clear understanding of the difference between philosophy and theology. From the time that I first noticed this, I have been including in all six of the different courses that I teach an opening lecture on the […]