A message presented in a theater with actors reaches people faster than the messages of the clergy at the podium. This is why the Egyptian Catholic Center of Cinema was founded in 1949.
Month: February 2019
Annual Black History Month Mass
At the annual Black History Month Mass held at Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston Feb. 17, nearly 40 minutes of poignant preaching set the tone for a liturgy that offered words of healing for the suffering caused by the sins of racism and words of hope as the plight toward racial equality in America continues.
Sports Round-Up Feb. 23
The St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, and CHSFL communities are mourning the passing of longtime L’il Terriers assistant varsity football coach Frank Nastro, who died Feb. 13.
John Dingell
Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, who represented Michigan’s 12th Congressional District for more than 59 years, making him the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history, died Feb. 7 at his home in Dearborn, Mich., at age 92.
Survivor on Pope’s Anti-Abuse Summit: ‘He’s Gotta Deliver’
One of the most outspoken survivors of clerical abuse says that he wants to see accountability for both the crime and cover-up of clerical abuse, and that if an upcoming summit fails to yield these results, Pope Francis will have failed victims.
Religious Order Chiefs: Abuse of Children is Wrong ‘Anywhere, Anytime’
Ahead of Thursday’s kickoff for Pope Francis’s closely-watched summit on sex abuse, major superiors of Religious Orders and Congregations around the world have called the abuse of children “wrong anywhere and anytime” and urged greater involvement of women in reform efforts going forward.
Schoolgirl Offers $1 Million if Pope Exchanges Argentine Beef for Vegan Tacos
She wrote a letter that’s now been published in major newspapers around the globe asking the pope to go vegan for Lent. Now, she’s knocking at his door asking for a meeting in person.
Timeline Of Key Events In McCarrick’s Priesthood, Ministry
A timeline of key events in the life of Theodore E. McCarrick, beginning with his ordination as a priest for the Archdiocese of New York more than 60 years ago and ending with the Vatican’s announcement Feb. 16 that Pope Francis has confirmed his removal from the priesthood.
Maybe Vatican Sex Abuse Summit Can’t Do Everything, But It Better Deliver Something
By John L. Allen Jr. (Crux) ROME – When I first arrived in Rome as a cub reporter in the late 1990s, I met a kindly German priest who worked in the Vatican and asked him to tell me what he’d learned. In response, he launched into a story intended as a metaphor for his grudging […]
In The US, A Sobering Mood After News of McCarrick’s Laicization
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The accusations surrounding former U.S. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have been hanging over U.S. bishops and faith communities in the dioceses and archdioceses where he served — New York, Metuchen and Newark in New Jersey, and Washington — since last year. Even though the Vatican stripping McCarrick of his clerical status Feb. […]