Dear Editor: Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are feuding about who is to blame and how much the state and the city are spending on the homeless problem. And yet more people are living on the streets and in shelters. There are now 56,000 men, women, and children living in emergency shelters and thousands more living in the streets.
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Religion and Environment
Dear Editor: Pope Francis in “Laudato si’” recognizes a climate “catastrophe” and “millions of premature deaths” from carbon burning pollutants, and demands massive decarbonization and conversion to renewables starting “without delay” “in the next few years.”
Following Conscience
The situation in Rowan County, Ky., is a difficult one, to say the least. The law of the land is that same-sex couples can be issued civil marriage licenses. County clerk Kim Davis, a born-again Christian, refused to comply with the civil law by issuing these licenses to same-sex partners, citing that it would cause her to violate her conscience as a Christian. She was sent to jail, a martyr-hero to some and a homophobe bigot to others.
Faith Sustains Former President
NEWS IN AUGUST that President Jimmy Carter’s cancer had spread from his liver to his brain brought sadness to many in America and around the world, but his assurance that he will be “at ease with whatever comes” came as no surprise to those who have followed the 39th president of the United States over the years.
Rewriting the Script in Roanoke and at Home
THE QUESTION THAT haunts the aftermath of tragedies resulting in death and heartbreak is often the same: Could any of us have seen it coming and stopped it? The news was indeed horrific the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 26 when two Roanoke, Virginia, journalists in their 20s with promising careers and marriages to look forward to were gunned down during a live broadcast.
Diocesan Assignments – September 5, 2015
PASTOR Rev. Francis J. Hughes, from pastor of St. Columba, Marine Park, and from dean of Brooklyn 11 Deanery, to pastor of St. Pancras, Glendale, effective Sept. 1.
There Is Crying in Baseball
Dear Editor: Jim Mancari really hit one out of the park with his recent column “There Is Crying in Baseball, After All” (Aug. 22). I’ve been a Mets’ fan since 1962 when I lived in Brooklyn. It’s been said that when we die, Mets’ fans go straight to Heaven and not to Purgatory. We have been through Hell already.
Ecology’s Connectivity
Dear Editor: My deepest thanks to Bishop DiMarzio for his “Put Out into the Deep” column on Pope Francis’s encyclical, “Laudato Si’, On Care For Our Common Home” (July 22). I was especially moved by the Bishop’s memories of how his own grandfather “Francesco” embodied one of the points Pope “Francesco” stresses in his encyclical, never wasting what God has given us, never colluding in today’s “throwaway” culture.
Weigel Right on Education
Dear Editor: George Weigel’s Aug. 15 column (“The Perils of “Preferred Peers’”) about the quality of education at many colleges is excellent and ought to be required reading for anyone involved in the college-selection process.
The Church of History
Dear Editor: George Weigel and Prof. Stark’s interpretations of Cardinal Kasper (“Understanding Cardinal Walter Kasper,” National Catholic Register, July 11) are distorted. Weigel praises and quotes from Stark that Cardinal Kasper’s concept of history undermines the eternal truth of Christ. Stark, in National Catholic Register, even went as far as calling Cardinal Kasper as one suffering from dementia, a sophist, an agnostic modernist, and nearing apostasy.