by Effie Caldarola For many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, this has been the winter of our discontent. Snowstorm upon snowstorm blanketed great swaths of the U.S. Ice brought cities in the Southern U.S. to a virtual standstill, while Canada and Alaska experienced disconcerting periods of warmth. The British Isles were hit by massive flooding. […]
by George Weigel In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the senior Vatican official, said to me, “They only know how to be chaplain to the czar – whoever he is.” Such asperity reflected deep frustration over the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow’s […]
by Father Robert Lauder I recently read an essay in the Houston Catholic Worker (2013) that brought up a surprising number of pleasant memories. The essay, titled “The Personalism of the Catholic Worker Movement,” was written by Edmund Miller. I first met Dorothy Day in 1955 when I was a seminarian. A priest-professor at Immaculate […]
Dear Dr. Garner, What started out as a small area that itched on my back has now taken over my entire skin. I scratch so hard that it bleeds but there is no sign of any rash. My doctor gave me a moisturizer but it is not helping. This is beginning to affect me mentally. […]
When the New York State Bishops went to Albany this past week to present a moral perspective to the public debate, they made the Education Investment Incentives Act a major focus of their agenda. As we have outlined here before, the proposal is a no-brainer as it seeks to encourage donations to public schools and […]
It was great to see Al O’Hagan back in Brooklyn. It was St. Patrick’s Day and where else would the great Hibernian leader be but back in his beloved Brooklyn. Health problems forced Al to move to southern Jersey a few years back. After years leading the Great Irish Fair, the Coney Island Chamber of […]
My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, On May 22, 2014, the Diocese of Brooklyn will celebrate World Communications Day. We are delighted that His Excellency, Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council on Social Communications, will receive our St. Francis de Sales Distinguished Communicator Award. In addition, he will be our […]
With another exciting season of GCHSAA action in the books, here are the 2014 Brooklyn/Queens girls’ high school basketball all-stars. Special thanks to the GCHSAA and league coaches for providing stats and pertinent information. Division I First Team Sierra Calhoun Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village Senior Guard 22.7 pts. per game 8.2 […]
by Tony Rossi Kerry Weber’s adventurous pursuit of practicing mercy has made her life anything but boring. She volunteered with the Special Olympics in college and taught special education at a Navajo reservation through the Mercy Volunteer Corps after college. It was the idea of practicing all seven corporal works of mercy over the 40 […]
At the Catholic Youth Organization boys basketball championships on March 16, the Divine Mercy, Williamsburg, hoops program had quite the showing. The teams captured four diocesan titles: one each on the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade levels. Below are the four championship teams:
