Sister Dianna Ortiz struggled daily with memories of torture and rape at the hands of Guatemala security forces in 1989, but she would not let that define her life.
Month: February 2021
CHSAA Leaders Call for Emergency Hearing With City on High-Risk Sports Decision
The Catholic High School Sports Athletic Association (CHSAA), for both the Diocese of Brooklyn and the Archdiocese of New York, is asking the city council’s Committee on Health to host an emergency hearing in regards to playing high-risk sports locally.
Obituaries, Week of Feb. 27, 2021
Father Paul Palmiotto; Brother James McVeigh, O.S.F.; Father Thomas Jeremiah Barrett, C.Ss.R.
Former Loughlin Star Takes Big East by ‘Storm’
St. John’s Julian Champagnie leads the Big East in scoring.
Letters to the Editor, Week of Feb. 27, 2021
COVID-19 Vaccination and Bitter Partisanship; Mortal Sin of Catholics; Mayor de Blasio, You Must Do Something Now!; Rest Now, in Peace, Father Paul; What Do We Stand For?
Diocesan Assignments – February 27, 2021
Rev. Grzegorz Stasiak, from parochial vicar of Our Lady of Mercy, Forest Hills, to parochial vicar of St. Rose of Lima, Parkville, effective November 1, 2020.
‘Lord, It Is Good That We Are Here’
I had the great privilege of being on pilgrimage in the Holy Land with my seminary classmates almost 11 years ago. We were given the opportunity to travel to the Holy Land with the seminary rector and some other seminarians. At the time, I was a transitional deacon, so I enjoyed exercising diaconal ministry at many of the holy places.
The Beautifully Diverse Body of Christ
As the Holy Season of Lent progresses each year, we welcome new Catholics to the Body of Christ. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a journey, a true act of accompaniment by the local parish to catechumens (those who need to receive all three of the sacraments of initiation — Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Communion) and candidates (who were baptized, as a Catholic or in another ecclesial communion and need to receive the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist).
The ‘Existential Myopia’ and Our Role in the Cosmic Love Story
Occasionally, while reading “Let Us Dream Together,” some of the Pope’s words and phrases seem to leap out at me. They seem almost to demand my attention. They often cause me to pause and reflect. That was my experience when I saw the expression “existential myopia.”
Remembering Lives Of Consequence
All lives are consequential, for every human being is an idea of God’s, and everyone is a someone for whom the Son of God, the second Person of the Blessed Trinity, entered history, suffered, died — and was raised from the dead to display within history a new, glorified humanity.