By truly listening to the penitent during confession, “we listen to Jesus himself, poor and humble; by listening to the Holy Spirit, we put ourselves in attentive obedience, becoming listeners of the Word” in order to know what God wants to be done, he said.
Month: March 2018
Pope Meets MLK’s Daughter
Pope Francis shakes hands with Bernice King, daughter of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., during a private audience at the Vatican.
Rockville Centre Diocese Announces School Closure and a Consolidation
As part of a long-term effort to revitalize and strengthen Catholic education on Long Island, the Diocese of Rockville Centre announced that it will consolidate two elementary schools and close a diocesan high school that are no longer viable.
Scout Sunday in Forest Hills
Boys Scouts, Cub Scouts and Girls Scouts celebrated Scout Sunday at Our Lady of Mercy parish, Forest Hills.
I Want to Be a Priest
It is 1957 and my first week of school at St. Teresa School in Woodside. I had turned six in June and so was probably the oldest in the first grade. Sister Margaret Agnes had asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up, and I had responded, “I want to be a priest.”
Powerful Women
Laura DePalma, and Alexandra Pina, who were honored at the Brooklyn Power Women of the Year dinner at El Caribe, Mill Basin
Sundays @ Six with The Brooklyn Jesuits
The Jesuits in the Carroll Street Community in Crown Heights sponsor a weekly young adult liturgy called Sundays@Six to allow young adults to start the week off well with other young professionals, be part of a vibrant faith community and learn more about Ignatian spirituality.
Francis at Five Years: A Look at His Successes, What Needs to Be Done
When Pope Francis was elected five years ago today, he came into office with a reform mandate and a vow to make the Church less self-referential, focused on the peripheries rather than the center. Many of the challenges ahead seemed obvious: shaking up the Roman curia, cleaning up the Vatican’s finances, and continuing the work of clerical sex abuse reform efforts.
On Freezing Embryos and Consciences
Days apart, clinics offering in vitro fertilization in Cleveland, Ohio, and San Francisco, Calif., had malfunctions in their storage tanks, endangering thousands of frozen eggs and embryos.
Three Truths Parenting Taught Me About Lent
Our greatest spiritual teachers can be our nearest and dearest. The familiar ones with whom we share sinks and sheets and silverware.