The editorial boards of secular newspapers do it. So why does The Tablet choose not to endorse political candidates? It’s a question we are often asked. Perhaps now is the time to offer some insight, during the final days of an election that seems to be tearing the country apart.
Month: October 2020
Only in Print: Five Months After George Floyd’s Death, a Look at Race in Diocese of Brooklyn
It has been five months since George Floyd died at the hands of police in Minneapolis — a tragedy that unleashed massive protest demonstrations in cities across the country and ushered in a new era of racial reckoning in America.
HS Football Teams Adjust to New Gridiron Format
The CHSFL has instituted a 7-on-7 format for the fall, with the full season set for this spring.
Only in Print: Catholicism and the Presidency
Being Catholic and a major party’s nominee for President of the United States has always been controversial. It has only occurred four times — including this year — and the reason for controversy has changed.
Obituaries, Week of October 31, 2020
Deacon Edward Albert Smolinski; Sister Pearl McGivney, S.L..
Only in Print: Actors’ Chapel in Times Square Feels Effects of Broadway Hiatus
Down the block from Broadway’s longest-running American musical, Chicago, is St. Malachy’s-The Actors’ Chapel. Built in 1902, since 1920 the Actors’ Chapel has been a second home to Broadway performers and other entertainment industry artists.
Letters to the Editor, Week of October 31, 2020
We Need to Educate and Reaffirm What we Know; Just Pretend his Name Is “John Smith”; We are all Children of God And Deserve His Love; The Struggles of People Who Want to Live Better; Our Right to Attend Mass Must be Defended; Judges’ Decisions Against The Diocese of Brooklyn Were Biased; And for this Came I Into The World.
We Must Do All That We Can to Protect Our Most Vulnerable
As we come to the end of October, during which we celebrate Respect Life Month, we have an opportunity to reflect upon the 25th anniversary of “Evangelium vitae” (The Gospel of Life), the Encyclical of St. John Paul II.
The Songs of Camelot
No political theme song could have been more appropriate for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign than Frank Sinatra’s classic cover of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen’s exuberant “High Hopes.”
Priests Support ‘Spiritual Communion’ as COVID-19 Cases Spike Again
When Father Brian S. Lewis celebrates Mass these days, it’s being filmed and uploaded to YouTube so that those who are self-isolating because of the increased spread of the coronavirus can worship along with him and his masked congregation at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church in Lewes.