Some Recommended Summer Reading
June 21, 2012
In two weeks, we will be publishing our annual survey of what people in the diocese are reading this summer. ...
Ed Wilkinson
Finally, It Was Worth Going to the Movies
June 6, 2012
“For Greater Glory,” the new film about Mexico’s repression of the Catholic Church in the 1920s, couldn’t have come...
Catholic Cemetery Offers a Place of Peace
May 30, 2012
A visit to one of our Catholic Cemeteries never fails to impress. Thousands of Catholics flocked to our cemeteries again...
Social Media and Today’s Parish
May 23, 2012
At the diocesan observance of World Communication Day, a local pastor and a publisher had some interesting things to say...
Becket Fund Fights For Basic Religious Liberty
May 16, 2012
Without certain special interest groups, some issues could slip through the crack of inattention. Thanks to the Becket Fund, the...
Couldn’t Have Chosen Two More Popular Priests
May 9, 2012
Msgr. Joe Calise, the pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish, Williamsburg, correctly summed it up. “If they had...
The Changing Face Of Douglaston
May 2, 2012
News this week that the three metropolitan area dioceses will unite their priestly formation programs highlights yet another transformation for...
A Sign of Hope in a Changing Neighborhood
April 25, 2012
At the end of the Migration Day Mass last Sunday at St. Joseph’s Church on Pacific St. in Prospect Heights,...
Home of the Free Isn’t So Free These Days
April 19, 2012
I drove to Philadelphia last week just to take a break for a few days. Tolls on the way down...
Many Find the Church Through the RCIA
April 11, 2012
Each year, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio celebrates the Easter Vigil in the parish where there are the most baptisms produced by...