Blessed Carlo Acutis is helping students in the Diocese of Brooklyn grow closer to their faith. Scores of students came to Holy Family Church in Fresh Meadows on Wednesday, April 6 to take part in a prayer rally where they were given the opportunity to venerate a relic of Acutis.
Author: Paula Katinas
Only In Print: Tablet’s College Fair Helps Students Open Door to Future
The Tablet’s College Fair — the newspaper’s first in-person academic event since the start of the pandemic — drew a large crowd of enthusiastic students at St. Edmund Preparatory High School on Tuesday, April 5.
After 2021 Fundraising Win, St. Francis de Sales Aims For The Top Spot Again
The academy that took top honors in last year’s inaugural Tablet COVID Relief Fundraisers for Catholic Schools is determined to do even better — collectively and individually — this time around.
Airport Chaplain Donates Baby Strollers to Help Moms Travel Easy
Father Chris Piasta made a special delivery to The Bridge to Life on Monday, March 28. He brought as many strollers as could fit in his trunk — approximately 40 sets of wheels. Father Piasta, the Catholic chaplain of JFK Airport, collected the strollers after they had gone unclaimed by airline passengers.
COVID-19 Exposed Inequities in Health Care, Archbishop Paglia Says
A Vatican official visiting the U.S. to focus on health care issues is calling on the medical establishment to do a better job of balancing science and humanity in the treatment of patients. The scales are tipped toward science, said Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Pastor of St. Patrick’s, Father Sauer Resigns, After Allegations of ‘Inappropriate Behavior With Adults’
Father Gerard Sauer, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church, has resigned from his position in the wake of allegations against him of “inappropriate behavior with adults,” Bishop Robert Brennan announced.
St. Francis Prep Has One Million Reasons to be Happy With This Donation
The Thomas J. Sheehan Memorial Scholarship Fund is going to be able to help a lot more St. Francis Prep students now that a donor has given the high school a cool $1 million.
St. Elizabeth Students Get Their Sales Pitches Ready as Fundraiser Begins
Naomi Lopez, a student at St. Elizabeth Catholic Academy, is getting ready to sell subscriptions of The Tablet for the Second Annual COVID Relief Fundraiser for Catholic Schools — an endeavor that will generate money for schools to help them as they continue to recover financially from the pandemic.
Only In Print: Church of St. Francis Xavier Updates Its Look to Reflect Its Parishioners
Kristen Beckles has been attending Mass at the Church of St. Francis Xavier for eight years and loves almost everything about it — except that when she looks at the statues and paintings of saints displayed around the church, she never sees any that resembles her.
Bishop Brennan Hopes Consecration Brings Peace to War-Torn Ukraine
Bishop Robert Brennan came to St. James Cathedral Basilica on Friday to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In doing so, he was heeding a call from Pope Francis to the world’s bishops to perform the Act of Consecration in the hope of bringing peace to the two warring nations.