Bright Christmas Funds If your parish or parish group needs financial help this Christmas season, we want to know. The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Campaign will be underway shortly. This is our annual fundraising drive that helps diocesan- and parish-based groups provide Christmas gifts to the needy. To qualify for a grant from Bright Christmas, we […]
Victoria Castellano, junior St. Agnes A.H.S. Privacy is something to be cherished. In today’s world, people exploit their own privacy to everyone. I think that not everything should be announced. Leea Rizzo, freshman The Mary Louis Academy I think you need to make all of your social media be on […]
By Kelly Bothum I will be honest – the recent Synod of Bishops on the family was not a topic of discussion at my family’s dinner table. Finding half an hour for our family of five to scarf down the latest concoction in the slow cooker before we splinter off to the next band practice, […]
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s department of external relations and a frequent visitor to the West, is a man of parts: a widely published author, a composer, a gifted linguist. He can be charming and witty, as I discovered at the Library of Congress in 2011, and in the intervening […]
Dear Dr. Garner, I am a loyal reader of your weekly column and I am writing because I have been experiencing a nagging pain on the left side of my stomach. Sometimes it gets so bad that it feels like a knife is sticking in me. This has been going on for a couple of […]
by Dolores Grosso Personal, ongoing study of Catholicism has been a part of my life since my return to the Church some 20 years ago. I had been somewhat active in my parish. However, in undertaking the three-year Lay Ministry Program sponsored by the diocesan School of Evangelization’s Pastoral Institute, I experienced a merging of […]
Rett Awareness in the Rockaways An ocean of purple filled St. Rose of Lima School, Rockaway Beach, when students, faculty and staff participated in a purple dress down day in support of Rett Syndrome last month. Inspired by a little girl living with Rett in the Rockaways, Valentina Priolo, the school raised awareness and funds […]
By Barb Fraze BEIRUT (CNS) – Syrian children who have seen their houses bombed and family members killed are using string, glue, socks, beads and other odds and ends to help put their lives back together. Counselors, teachers and volunteers are being trained to help the children process their trauma through the use of puppets. […]
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (CNS) – When the latest production of William Shakespeare’s play “Love’s Labor’s Lost” opened in the recently refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theater, it attempted to draw new meaning from the Bard’s eternal lines. A similar task is being pursued by historians and researchers amid claims that Shakespeare was a secret Catholic at a time […]
by Andy Telli NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) – Supporters of Amendment 1 said the measure to restore Tennessee lawmakers’ authority to regulate abortion passed Nov. 4 because of the backing by Catholic and other religious leaders and their churches. The fight now turns to the state General Assembly, which is expected to consider several bills to […]
