Looking back more than three years, I would call them angels of mercy. At the time, as they sat at our dining room table, I probably thought of them more as messengers of death. The two women weren’t any sort of messengers, in fact. They had simply answered my wife’s request.
ON ONE HAND, I was very unlucky with respect to grandmothers. I was born in 1948 but both of my grandmothers died in the late 1930s. Whenever my classmates in school talked about their grandmothers, I always felt kind of sad because I didn’t have one, at least in this world.
AT THIS TIME of year, falling leaves and flaming foliage come to those parts of the country where climates favor cold snaps, shorter days and deciduous, or leaf-shedding, trees.
ROME – Amidst all the Sturm und Drang of Synod 2015, something genuinely new in the life of the Church began, and it shouldn’t escape our notice.
Seventh in a series WHEN I STARTED this series using Father John Kavanaugh’s “Following Christ in a Consumer Society” (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, revised edition, 1991, pp. 194) as a springboard for reflections on our culture and the mystery of person, my main motive was to share insights from this brilliant Jesuit’s book which I had […]
While many are beginning to make plans for the busiest time of the year, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, Father Patrick Longalong and others are also getting ready for a pilgrimage to the Philippines for the 51st International Eucharistic Congress, Jan. 28-31, 2016.
Tablet reporter Maria-Pia Negro Chin is currently in the Philippines with a contingent from Catholic Relief Services (CRS). They are examining the work of CRS there, especially in relation to the relief efforts following Typhoon Haiyan. Her reports will begin next week in The Tablet.
Three hundred people attended the Clergy Convocation at Immaculate conception Center, Douglaston, sponsored by the Office of Priestly Life and Ministry and Diaconate Office.
A pilgrimage, sponsored by A&G Tours, to Italy and Medjugorje was recently conducted under the spiritual direction of Father John Costello, administrator of St. Kevin Church, Flushing.
Nobody likes to be looked down upon. So, we should treat even the hungry and poor as our equals rather then just give them money out of pity.
