by Msgr. Joseph Calise As we celebrate the fourth Sunday of Advent on the liturgical calendar, the more worldly calendar is telling me that it is also the day before the day before Christmas. Gratefully, my Christmas chores are done – gifts are bought and wrapped, schedules are set and cards are in the mail. […]
by Father Robert Lauder Sixth in a series Reading about the scene in John’s Gospel depicting Jesus washing the feet of the apostles has brought back a powerful memory. In his book, Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to The Resurrection (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011, pp. 384) Pope Benedict offers […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I would like your opinion on the following matter: My brother who is 63 years old is constantly under stress. This is from his job and his family. I am worried about him. He is a smoker, has gained weight and has let himself run down. I know that the holidays are […]
The temptation to expect each Christmas to be a reprise of storybook models, reality-free, where innocence is spared the inevitable confrontation with the mystery of evil is less likely to hit us this year. As the day approaches, we adults customarily form a little pact between our children and the child within us to once […]
George Bruns was likely very good at keeping his own basketball statistics; he was a math teacher after all. In an interesting turn of events, Bruns, who was teaching at Msgr. McClancy M.H.S., East Elmhurst, at the time, was signed in the spring of 1973 by the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association […]
Sometimes words fail us. What can you say to the parents of a child who has been killed in a senseless mass slaughter of innocents? Sometimes actions speak louder than words. When Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio came to The NET’s studio last Monday afternoon to help us make sense of the tragic killing of school children […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, In the next few days, Christians around the whole world will celebrate the Nativity of the Lord’s birth. But for many of us, in the United States at least, our minds and hearts will also reflect on the massacre of the Holy Innocents. It is difficult for […]
by Veronica Szczygiel If you turn on the television, you’ll be inundated with advertisements that tell us it’s “the most wonderful time of the year” and “the happiest season of all.” That should be true. But let’s face it: Christmas can be, for many of us, a time of stress and sadness. In order to […]
Retired Bishop Walter F. Sullivan of Richmond, Va., 84, a resilient advocate for world peace and the dignity of poor Appalachian coal miners, poverty-stricken urban residents and migrant workers working under exhausting conditions alike, died of liver cancer Dec. 11. From peace rallies to vigils outside Virginia’s execution chamber during the hours before a convicted […]
Sister Edna Cooke, O.P., a member of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Amityville, for 77 years, died Nov. 17. She was 96. Raised in Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians parish, Woodside, she attended the Dominican Juniorate in Water Mill, L.I. She entered the congregation in 1935. When she was invested with her habit, she […]
