When Michal Ashkenazy, chair of the Science Department at Fontbonne Hall Academy, saw emergency workers on television pleading for personal protective equipment (PPE), she jumped into action.
Month: April 2020
Pregnancy Centers Continue Mission
Over 100,000 babies are born yearly in New York City, and even coronavirus can’t stop that. Pregnancy crisis centers like Good Counsel and Bridge to Life have been working overtime to help mothers during the pandemic.
Pizzeria Owner Served Up More Than Slices
Brooklyn has lost a true original. Carmine Notaro, the former owner of Original Pizza in Greenpoint, died April 2. Notaro, a parishioner of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Williamsburg, was 76 years old.
Then They Came for Us
In August 2018, a case of African porcine fever was reported in China. One year later, 40% of the pigs in China had disappeared. That epidemic killed one-quarter of the world’s pigs. It was an epidemiological debacle that disrupted the food industry in a country with 1.4 billion people.
Streaming Mass
In his first letters to the Corinthians, the Apostle St. Paul says: “Now we see only reflections in a mirror, mere riddles, but then we shall be seeing face to face.”
Only in Print: The Life and Times of Bishop-Elect Sweeny
JANUARY 17, 1970: Kevin Sweeney is born to James and Agnes Sweeney in Elmhurst, Queens.
Helping Those ‘Holding Strong’ on the Front Line
As a Navy Hospital Corpsman stationed in North Carolina, 26-year-old Jonathan Cordova is used to keeping up with his family on Long Island using FaceTime, a new norm for many during this time of social distancing.
Pinstripe Pride Drives Bishop-Elect Sweeney’s Love of the Game
Bishop-elect Kevin Sweeney loves baseball, especially the New York Yankees.
A Lost Voice From the Dissenting Faction
John Loughery and Blythe Randolph’s new biography Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century is a fantastic primer on this seminal Catholic fi gure of the twentieth century.
A Year After Easter Bombings in Sri Lanka, Recovery Still a Work in Progress
On the one-year anniversary of a series of Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people and injured 500 more, the nation mourned in silence, as the government continues its investigation and families struggle to move forward.