With another competitive season of Brooklyn/Queens CHSFL football in the books, here’s a look at The Tablet’s 2014 All-Diocesan Team. Players were selected from the five schools that field gridiron teams in Brooklyn and Queens: Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village; Holy Cross H.S., Flushing; Nazareth R.H.S., East Flatbush; St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows; and […]
Month: December 2014
Youth Views: How do you have fun at no or low cost?
Emily Farrell, sophomore Bishop Kearney H.S. After school, my friends and I just walk around and talk. Sidney Gibbons, senior Msgr. McClancy M.H.S. Running is free and good for you. I am very calm when running. Isabella Galea, freshman Bishop Kearney H.S. I go get pizza with my friends. […]
Finishing the Year off Right
The students at St. John’s Prep, Astoria, concentrate on the true meaning of Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ. The world may have some cracks, but at the Prep, students discover that the cracks also let the light shine through. And so, as they have done for almost 150 years, St. John’s Prep students […]
The Francis Factor: Pew Study Shows 43 Nations Continue to Have Positive View of the Pontiff
By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – During the second year of his pontificate, Pope Francis was still feeling the love, and not just from Catholics or those from his homeland of Argentina. A Pew Research Center study released Dec. 11 showed that the pope has broad support across much of the world. Sixty percent of […]
O.L. Snows School Makes Christmas Bright
The Student Council of Our Lady of the Snows School, North Floral Park, raised $620 for The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund by selling paper ornaments! The children of the school purchased paper ornaments for 25 cents each and colored them in to hang on the school Christmas tree! The class that bought the most ornaments […]
May the Unrest of Christ Be With You
By Effie Calderola AS SOMEONE REMINDED me during this Christmas season, Jesus came to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Or, as a priest I knew used to say at the end of Mass many years ago, “May the unrest of Christ be with you.” I’ve been painfully aware of my status as one […]
Third ‘Night at the Museum’ Offers Good-Natured Fun
By Joseph McAleer NEW YORK (CNS) – All creatures great and small, including some long-dead humans, spring to life when the sun goes down in “Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb” (Fox), the third film in the popular franchise. The original cast returns for some good-natured and with one or two exceptions, family-friendly […]
Pope Says He Hopes to Travel to Middle East
By Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis deplored the “abuses and inhuman acts” of Islamic State militants, and called on all religious leaders to condemn them “unanimously and unambiguously.” He also said he hoped to travel to the Middle East to comfort persecuted Christians there. The pope’s words appeared in a Christmas […]
Pope Warns Curia on ‘Spiritual Alzheimer’s’
By Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis’ Christmas greeting to the Vatican bureaucracy this year was an extended warning against a host of spiritual ills to which he said Vatican officials are prone, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s,” “existential schizophrenia,” publicity-seeking, the “terrorism of gossip” and even a poor sense of humor. The pope […]
Filipinos Eagerly Await Pope’s Visit
By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – Filipino Catholics living in the U.S. say the pope’s upcoming visit to the Philippines will be a big boost for their homeland that has experienced so much suffering. “After all the travesties” the country has faced, the visit will provide a “flicker of light and a glimmer of hope,” […]