Dear Editor: Soon Blessed Sacrament parish and Blessed Sacrament Catholic Academy will bid farewell to our pastor, Father Francis Shannon, known to all as Father Frank. He will be moving to St. Mary Star of the Sea-St. Gertrude in Far Rockaway.
Author: settinger
Bishop Daily was Pro-Life
Dear Editor: Your tribute to the late Bishop Thomas V. Daily was wonderful and proclaiming him the pro-life leader was right on. I attended the Mass of Christian Burial for Bishop Daily and found it to be spiritually uplifting.
Eye on Albany
Once again, the fight to assure the future of Catholic schools goes on in our state of New York. The question of aid for mandated services, which many of our young people need to be successful in school (and, later on, in life), is in grave danger of being slashed severely.
Living in Communion Transforms the World
ROD DREHER’S BOOK, “The Benedict Option” (2016) has been the source of much discussion in both the Catholic and secular press. Dreher, a conservative columnist, is a man of faith. He was raised Protestant, then converted to Catholicism, and in 2006, after the clerical sexual abuse scandal in the U.S., decided to convert to Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
Reflections of a Grateful Diocesan Co-Worker
by Gerald Tortorella
As has been reported in these pages, I will retire later this year as the Director of the Pastoral Institute of the Diocese of Brooklyn’s School of Evangelization. I was honored at the recent Commissioning Ceremony and honored with the National Association for Lay Ministry’s Spirit of the Conference Award. Now it is my turn to recognize and honor those persons who accompanied me along this journey.
I Didn’t Sign Up for This, Or Did I?
by Laura Kelly Fanucci
STRIPPING SOAKED sheets off a child’s bed for the third night in a row. Scrubbing vomit out of a carseat. Listening to a bedroom door slam with an angry “I hate you!”
The Gift of Life
Dear Editor: In the May 20th edition of The Tablet’s Youth Page, six high school students in “Youth Views” were asked the question “How has your mother impacted your life”?
Know the Faith
Dear Editor: In response to the recent article, “Why are cradle Catholics leaving the Church?”, I would like to reply. As a literal “cradle Catholic” (having been “rocked” in a cradle by a mother knitting socks or sweaters for other family members), I believe I may be a little qualified.
What’s in Common Cup?
Dear Editor: I need my sisters and brothers in the faith to explain to me what is offered in the “Common Cup” at Communion time.
Memorial Day Reprise
Dear Editor: With eternal gratitude, in honored memory of the God-inspired devotion to freedom lived, fought and died for by the Armed Forces of the United States of America.