AMMAN, Jordan (CNS) – A top Catholic charity official described Gaza as a “complete catastrophe” after nearly four weeks of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant Hamas.
Month: August 2014
New SSND Ministered In Novitiate in Queens
Joan Frances Pikiell made her first profession of religious vows with the School Sisters of Notre Dame (SSND) on Saturday, July 26, at the order’s chapel at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn.
Brother from Brooklyn Promotes Religious Life
Brother Sean McLaughlin, S.D.S., was presented with the newly established Pillar Award from the Religious Brothers Conference.
Tablet TALK
This week’s Tablet TALK highlights a Fort Greene author’s newest book, Flushing artists who paint for a good cause, a local college of “distinction,” and much, much more…
A Providential Recipe For Celiac Sufferers
With a tried and true recipe, the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have been producing altar breads and distributing them since 1910. But in the early 1990s, they began to receive telephone calls from individuals who had a unique need for a different recipe: They suffered from celiac disease and could not receive holy Communion in the form of the usual, wheat-based hosts.
Pope Francis’ Optimism
Fourth in a series
Going through Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation, “The Joy of the Gospel,” for the third or fourth time, I have been thinking about why I find his writing so inspiring.
A Millennial Column (So to Speak)
I’ve been writing op-ed columns for the Catholic press since 1979. I began this column in 1993 at the invitation of the late Kay Lagreid, then-editor of the now-deceased Catholic Northwest Progress in Seattle.
Casting Aside Our Fears
Flying back to New York from Rome in late June to begin my service as a summer priest at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Windsor Terrace, I had the opportunity to watch some films that I had wanted to watch and had always put off viewing.
Myths and Facts About Ulcer Disease
Dear Dr. Garner,
I enjoy reading your column, and now I am writing in to see if you can help me.
A Mid-Summer’s Prayer Of Thanksgiving
Let me suggest that here, in the midst of summer, the reader give some thought to summers past. Recall good summer memories. Everyone has them – being swept ashore with the surf, floating in an inner tube on a lake, splashing around in the pool, catching lightning bugs, chasing butterflies.