Keep Up the Good Work!

Dear Editor: I don’t know Peter Damour in person, but I’m so proud of him and the works God is accomplishing in him and through him (“Catholic Youth Minister Leads Teens Closer To Christ,” Feb. 23). May our Mom Mary bless him and always keep him clean and pure in heart and in mind.

Remembering Bishop Valero

Dear Editor: Bishop Valero ordained my dad in 1985. One day a few years later we were together at a Confirmation diner at St. Margaret’s.

Help to Write Our History

Dear Editor: I am the author of three books on the history of Catholic New York, and I am currently in the process of writing a new book on Catholic life in Brooklyn from the 1840’s through the 1960’s. I would like to reach out to Tablet readers with a Brooklyn background, in order to hear their stories so I can faithfully reconstruct our shared Catholic past.

Around the Diocese March 30

This week’s listing includes events in Brooklyn and Queens through March and into April.

Oldest US Prelate, Bishop Francis A. Quinn, 97, Dies

Retired Bishop Francis A. Quinn of Sacramento, California, who headed the Northern California diocese from 1980 to 1994 and later spent 13 years ministering to Native Americans in the Diocese of Tucson, died March 21 at age 97.

Amazon Women At The Front Lines of Environmental Battle

In indigenous Kichwa communities, women like Patricia Gualinga have traditionally taken on the role of wife, mother and cultivator of the crops that families use to survive in Ecuador’s Amazonian region of Sarayaku.

Nearly Two Million Attend March For Life In Argentina

Nearly two million people marched on March 23 in Pope Francis’ native Argentina in pro-life demonstrations dedicated to defending the life of the unborn, and offering solutions to mothers in crisis pregnancies.