Month: January 2020

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio - Put Out Into the Deep

The Universality of God’s Salvation

January 8, 2020

My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,

There are many songs regarding the 12 days of Christmas. The 12th day, January 6, was traditionally on the Catholic calendar the Feast of the Epiphany. Today, at least for the Latin Rite of the Church, the feast is transferred to the nearest Sunday. This is an especially important feast for those in the Eastern Churches, because their principal Christmas celebration takes place on the Epiphany, whose theme is the manifestation of the Christ Child to the world.

Sports Round-Up Jan. 11

January 7, 2020

St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, is set to begin its inaugural season of men’s volleyball. In its first-ever match, the team travels to Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Conn., on Jan. 10.

Morality of Drone Warfare Questioned After Attack on Iranian General

January 7, 2020

The tweet early Jan. 3 from Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, asked for prayers. It wasn’t an unusual request from a church leader. Still, its significance stems from its context and its timing: a few hours after the overnight killing of Iran’s top military leader, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.

Marian Healing Ministry

January 6, 2020

Continuing the Marian Healing Ministry of Father Dennis Kelleher, C.S.s.R., there will be a healing Mass at St. Anastasia’s Church in Douglaston, Jan. 21.

New Yorkers Rally Against Anti-Semitism

January 6, 2020

An estimated 25,000 New Yorkers took to the streets in a “Solidarity March” in protest of anti-Semitism on Jan. 5, among them Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, who told the crowd “we are all brothers and sisters under the one God who made us.”