Keeping traditions alive is what Brooklyn’s Three Kings Parade is all about.
Author: Ed Wilkinson
Maimonides Helps Parishes Shine Brightly for Christmas
Maimonides Medical Center in Borough Park, hosted a reception to kick off the 24th annual Celebration of Light. Kenneth D. Gibbs, president and CEO of Maimonides, presented a $1,000 check to each representative of 30 Christian communities, the vast majority of which were Catholic parishes.
Help Us Make This a Bright Christmas For All
For the past 33 years, I had the privilege of coordinating The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Campaign. The drive is very simple: We ask readers to donate money that will be used to buy Christmas gifts for children who might not otherwise receive a gift at Christmas.
Cathedral Club Memorial Mass
At the annual Memorial Mass of the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn, prayers were offered for the deceased members of the 118-year-old society, but the list of the dead had to be updated at the last minute.
Hearings Muddied by the Cloud of Politics
The Catholic social justice group, Network, should be ashamed of the role it tried to play to negate the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a Justice of the Supreme Court.
The Church is One
The Church certainly is in a mess right now. The clerical sex abuse scandal and the attempt to protect children have blown into a full-scale civil war of liberals versus conservatives. It’s gone so far that some people are actually calling upon Pope Francis to resign from his office.
Bonds of Family Unite The Church
It would be a shame if last week’s papal trip to Ireland was judged simply as a referendum as to how the Church is handling the sex abuse crisis. While Pope Francis went to Ireland to affirm the World Meeting of Families, most of the headlines of the week surrounded the recent grand jury report about clergy sex abuse in Pennsylvania and Cardinal McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals as well as the history of abuse in Ireland.
Details of Abuse in the Church Must Be Heard
As I transition away from the Editor’s desk and into my new role with DeSales Media, I wish I had cheerier things to write about. Unfortunately, the clergy sex abuse scandal that has gripped the Church for so many years continues to haunt us.
Bishop Listed Among the Power Elite of Brooklyn
New Yorkers are discovering something that Catholics always have known – the Bishop of Brooklyn is an important person.
Have You Renewed Your Tablet Subscription?
We will be talking up individual subscriptions as the fall pastoral year approaches. I plan to meet with each deanery in Brooklyn and Queens to elaborate on how to bring down the parish subscribers and convert them to individual subscribers.
