On Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., the Diocese of Brooklyn will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving for Bishop Edward Scharfenberger, when all may personally congratulate and offer best wishes to him upon his ordination and installation as the 10th Bishop of Albany, N.Y.
Fittingly, the announcement came inside Xavier University of Louisiana’s convocation center, the newest of many green-roofed monuments that Norman C. Francis, the longest-serving university president in the U.S., had built through charisma, prayer and personal witness.
There are good reasons why some paintings are in the great museums and others do not qualify. Of course, it is possible that experts make mistakes.
It was one of the most powerful proclamations of the Gospel I have ever experienced – and it astounds me that The New York Times proclaimed it to me.
Sister Mary Waters, R.S.M.; Jane Modry; Paul Speckenbach; Father John Scarangello; Deacon Florencio Cruz; Brother Francis Chinery, S.C.; Sister Anita Boegel, R.S.M.; Sister Anne Regis Miller, C.S.J.; Sister Clare Patrice Farrell, O.P.
On the evening of Sept. 12, 2006, my wife and I were dining in Krakow with Polish friends when an agitated Italian Vaticanista (pardon the redundancy in adjectives) called and demanded to know what I thought of “Zees crazee speech of zee pope about zee Muslims.” That was my first hint that the herd of independent minds in the world press was about to go ballistic on the subject of Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Lecture: a “gaffe”-bone on which the media continued to gnaw until the end of Benedict’s pontificate.
Yesterday, I left my cellphone on the kitchen table when I left the house. It felt as if the apocalypse happened! The first hour wasn’t so bad. It was bright and early in the morning, and I had coffee to drink and work to do.
Dear Dr. Garner, It’s great to hear that your TV show will be returning Oct. 7! Tuesday nights just aren’t the same without “Ask The Doctor!” Thank you for doing the show and this column.
The New York State Legislature is considering a new law to criminalize what’s known as “revenge porn.” It seems that in our brave new world of social media, it’s become somewhat common for couples in intimate relationships to share sexually explicit photographs via email or “Instagram” or “sexting.” Later, after the relationship has dissolved, recipients of the images sometimes share them on the Internet, with identifying details and disparaging remarks.
I usually divide my monthly allowance into three parts. For the first part, I buy honey and some healthy food. For the second part, I pay the phone bill. The third part I use for a small trip to the city every month.
