Memories play tricks on us. I have been trying to recall my experience of studying undergraduate philosophy as a seminarian many years ago and comparing it with what I emphasize and stress in the philosophy classes I now teach at St. John’s University. Was there in the courses I took as an undergraduate any emphasis […]
I am writing this article on Feb. 11, the Feast of our Lady of Lourdes, which our late Holy Father, Pope St. John Paul II designated as “The World Day of the Sick.”
Feb. 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the memorable “Miracle on Ice,” when the U.S. hockey team defeated the Soviet Union.
During my time at Aquinas H.S. in La Crosse, Wis., I was privileged to have a young Sister Thea Bowman as a teacher during my sophomore year.
Sister Patricia Maureen (Mary Catherine) Mulryan, S.C., who taught at St. Paul’s School in Cobble Hill and who was a member of the Sisters of Charity for 71 years, died on Feb. 9 in New City, N.Y. She was 89.
Bishop William J. McNaughton, a Maryknoll missionary for 66 years and the first bishop of Incheon, South Korea, from 1962 until his retirement 2002, died Feb. 3 at Cedar View Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Methuen. He was 93.
Dear Editor: I’m very disappointed with the article on the front page of The Tablet (“Catholic Iowa Democrats…”, Jan. 25).
Dear Editor: This article is disgraceful (“Catholic Iowa Democrats Weigh Choices,” Jan. 25). Your front page really shows why the Catholic Church in this country is on a decline — the church can’t even support a president that is fighting for them every day!
Dear Editor: Our President has been called many things in his three years in office, but my adjective of choice is “frustrating.” He seems to be, morally, on both sides of what is right and proper.
Dear Editor: As a former Brooklyn diocese resident, I recently began a subscription.
