The Brooklyn Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women will host its biennial Communion Luncheon in celebration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy on Saturday, Feb. 20 at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston.
Month: January 2016
Around the Diocese, Jan. 30, 2016
This week’s listing features events in Brooklyn and Queens through March 13.
English Cardinal Warns Teachers Against Islamic State Recruitment
It can take just one month to turn a disenfranchised teenage Catholic student into fanatical Islamic terrorist, an English cardinal planned to warn Catholic teachers.
Soldier: God Protected Me in Benghazi
Not only are there no atheists in foxholes, but some of the denominational differences seem to disappear, too, once you’re under heavy fire. That was the situation that Mark Geist and Kris Paronto found themselves in working as military contractors in Benghazi, Libya.
Philly Will Auction Papal Car to Aid Ministry
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Pa., is auctioning off one low-mileage car, in mint condition, used slightly by one owner. Proceeds from the auction will benefit ministries of the archdiocese.
Pro Vita Mass Rescheduled
Last weekend’s snowstorm wiped out the annual Pro Vita Awards Mass and ceremony at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn. Father Michael Gelfant, diocesan liaison to the Knights of Columbus, a co-sponsor of the event, announced that it has been rescheduled for March 5 at 5 p.m.
Our Duty to Those Who Doubt
Recently, I received a letter from a person desperate because his brother left the church in anger, saying a lot of what the church teaches is a myth. I told the person I would pray for the situation. But I imagine there are a lot of similar situations out there.
Opportunity Amid Demographic Crisis
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the “one-child policy” China began to implement in the early 1980s – a state-decreed population-control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced abortions?
Insights on the Mystery of Person
The section in the text was about the mystery of love. I have read and studied the section many times. But as I was reading it to the students, something strange happened. Insights that I had received from the text many times previously seemed to leap off the page.
Responding to The Call
When God chooses us … it doesn’t matter how prepared or not we imagine ourselves to be. Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz reflects on the prophet’s call as he explains this week’s Sunday Scriptures.