After another competitive season of Catholic High School Football League action, The Tablet’s
Brooklyn/Queens CHSFL All-Star team is back.
Month: December 2023
Announcing the Brooklyn/Queens CHSFL All-Star Team for 2023
After another competitive season of Catholic High School Football League action, The Tablet’s Brooklyn/Queens CHSFL All-Star team is back.
The Holy Family Is An Example for All Families
Television shows of the late 1950s and early 1960s certainly gave my generation a definite image of what it meant to be a family.
How Do We Win the Abortion Battle?
For abortion’s opponents, it has been a frustrating year. When it came to the courts, the prolife movement scored its most significant victory when the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 reversed its 1973 decision calling abortion a constitutional right.
Gabriel Marcel’s Vision: Being Ultimately Means God
My favorite existentialist philosopher is Gabriel Marcel. His insights into the mystery of the human person are beautiful, even inspiring. But reading him is demanding. One of the best essays I have read explaining Marcel’s vision of the human person and God is in Father Francis M. Tyrrell’s wonderful book “Man: Believer and Unbeliever” (New York: Alba House, 1974, 415 pp.).
Catholic Leaders Say Church Must Vocally Advocate for Migrants Amid Increasing Hostility
Amid increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment, the Catholic Church must remain vocal in its ministry to and advocacy for migrants, Catholic leaders said at a Dec. 21 panel.
Influencers in Christ: Catholic Content Creators Use Social Media to Educate and Evangelize
Matthew Chicoine joined Instagram eight years ago in response to a tragedy. The death of an unborn child, compounded with the demands of his job as a Catholic school teacher, compelled him to turn to writing on his website (www.thesimplecatholic.blog) and Instagram (@thesimplecatholic) to “grapple with the stress and grief” of that year.
If You Build a Belén, the Faithful Will Come to Queens Village
Estevao Neitzke carefully drops the figurine of St. Joseph into place. Jacob Chavez mixes sand and clay to represent the landscape of the Holy Land and applies it to the plywood base. Juan Jose Luna places animal figurines on a three-foot-high cardboard mountain.
He Turned From the Way of the Streets to the Way of the Lord
Johnny Chavez grew up on the tough streets of South Williamsburg 20 years ago, got mixed up with a street gang and became a heroin dealer when he was a high school sophomore. But luckily for him, he was arrested for robbery at the age of 17.
Letters to the Editor Week of December 23, 2023
China’s Pneumonia Outbreak, A Christmas Poem, A Question on Faith Is Tuesday better than Sunday?, Happy at St. Benedict’s, Puzzle Pleasure