Brooklyn native Alix Day runs the Mile 4 hydration station each year at the NYC Marathon.
Month: October 2019
Lessons From a Tax Collector
by Father John P. Cush
The Gospel we proclaim this Sunday features a rather enigmatic figure, one whom we read about only in this Gospel passage: Zacchaeus. What can we learn from this story of this “short-in-stature” man, a chief tax collector, a man who changes his life, who climbs a sycamore tree because he was “seeking to see who Jesus was”?
A New Cardinal Honors An Entire Nation
ROME — Even the greatest enthusiasts of the present pontificate might not assert that Pope Francis has an inspiring liturgical style. Like the old-school Jesuit he resembles in many ways, the Holy Father is rather flat liturgically: typically expressionless, sometimes downright dour, he gets through the business at hand in a workmanlike way. Yet at the consistory for the creation of new cardinals on October 5, Pope Francis showed real emotion when, after bestowing the red biretta and cardinalatial ring on the emeritus archbishop of Kaunus, Lithuania, Sigitas Tamkevicius, S.J., the Pope seemed to shed a tear or two as he drew the new prince of the Church into a prolonged embrace and shared a few words with him.
Loneliness and Meaning
There are two brief sections in David Brooks’ provocative book “The Second Mountain” (New York: Random House, 2019, pp. 346) that I found deeply disturbing and also challenging. They have led me to examine my life as a priest and as a professor.
At National Meeting, Latino Priests Affirm Care for Poor, Peers
At a meeting for Latino priests, gathered clergy spoke of the need to look out for one another as brothers and affirmed the need to walk with the poor.
Getty Fire Impacts a Catholic University, Schools and Retired Sisters
The Getty Fire that began whipping through mountain communities west of Los Angeles during the early hours of Oct. 28 caused the closure of several local Catholic schools, the evacuation of students and staff at Mount St. Mary’s University and a call for the retired sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet to shelter in place.
Sister Patricia Fox, O.P.
Sister Patricia Fox, O.P., a member of the Dominican Sisters of Amityville who taught at schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on Oct. 23. She was 80. She entered the novitiate in Amityville, L.I., in 1959 and received her religious name, Sister Helen Marie, a year later.
Sister Mary Rosalita Judge, O.P.
Sister Mary Rosalita Judge, O.P., a member of the Dominican Sisters of Amityville for 76 years who grew up in Greenpoint and taught in the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on Oct. 18. She was 94.
Sister Mary Quentin Ryan, O.P.
Sister Mary Quentin Ryan, O.P., a member of the Dominican Sisters of Amityville for 79 years who taught in schools in the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on Oct. 21. She was 97.
The Chicken Runs At Midnight
“The chicken runs at midnight” isn’t a sentence you’ll find in your Bible, but it is a divinely inspired statement that brought proof of heaven to Rich Donnelly, a grieving father who needed to find his way back to God.