Catholics served with distinction during the U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, but not all carried weapons or even served in uniform.
Author: Bill Miller
Bishop Returns Home to Lindenhurst As Grand Marshal of St. Pat’s Day Parade
With a smile on his face and a shillelagh in hand, Bishop Robert Brennan returned to his hometown, Lindenhurst on Long Island, on March 25 to march as grand marshal in the community’s Second Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The event was rain-soaked, but Lindenhurst’s citizenry lined the streets for the celebration.
Only in Print: Edmonia Lewis: A Sculptor For Her Time and Today
Edmonia Lewis’ story is one of triumph — over the festering prejudices foisted on people of color and women in the 19th century — to become a famed American sculptor of neoclassical marble works.
Local Sisters Stay Engaged Socially, Spiritually During Their Retirements
“When God closes one door, he opens another,” said Father Richard Ahlemeyer during the homily at a recent Friday Mass for the retired sisters of the Stella Maris Convent.
Only in Print: Queens Native’s ‘Fun, Inspiring’ Novel Gives Voice to St. Joseph
Joseph, a craftsman in Nazareth, thought he knew the right thing to do — quietly divorce his pregnant betrothed, Mary — but “an angel of the Lord” appeared to him in a dream, telling him to reverse course.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Honors Immigrants’ Quest for Better Lives
The 262nd New York City St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its annual trek up Fifth Avenue on Friday, March 17, with a rousing spectacle of bagpipes, drums, and marchers carrying Irish-themed banners.
St. Joseph Art Contest Winners Drawn From 827 Entries, Take Home Cash Prizes
A record number of entries and the most cash prizes ever awarded converged on March 16 with the announcement of winners in the 2023 youth spring art contest co-sponsored by The Tablet.
Only in Print: St. Patrick’s Legacy Gloriously Transcends His Legends
“My name is Patrick. … I am a sinner, a simple country person, and the least of all believers. I am looked down upon by many.”
17th-Century Nun Championed Women’s Rights, Love of God in Colonial Mexico
“You foolish men,” begins a poem by one of Mexico’s most renowned writers.
Fordham’s Bronx Artifacts Collection Builds on Jewish, Catholic Partnership
A trove of artifacts of local Jewish life — bar mitzvah invitations, high school yearbooks, marriage certificates, receipts from kosher caterers among them — is growing here in an unlikely place: a library in a Catholic university.
