This Tuesday, we get our annual opportunity to go to the polls and make our choices as to where the city, state and nation is heading.
Author: settinger
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor: Conservatives are deeply disturbed that they no longer have their own way in the Vatican, that the new pope has dared to open discussions among bishops and lay people. No more Roma locuta, causa finita; more come and let us reason together.
Diocese Distributed More Than $25 Million To Victims of Superstorm Sandy
Special Financial Report, Two Years After the Storm
Local Maryknoller Elected President
Sister Antoinette Gutzler, M.M., the Brooklyn-born president-elect of Maryknoll Sisters, celebrated 50 years with the congregation this past Sunday, Oct. 12, at a special Mass offered at Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, N.Y.
Dallas Diocese Houses Ebola Victim’s Family
DALLAS (CNS) – Dallas Bishop Kevin J. Farrell said that he followed the teaching of Christ and stepped in to house the fiancee of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan and three others for several weeks at a diocesan facility because when no one else would.
Deacon Ordained in Rome
Nicholas Colalella, from St. Margaret parish, Middle Village, a fourth-year seminarian at the North American College, Rome, was ordained a deacon at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Oct. 2 by Cardinal Donald Wuerl.
Siebel Retires as CEO Of Catholic Charities
Robert Siebel will be retiring as CEO of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens (CCBQ) and related agencies, effective Nov. 1.
Pope: Terrorism Is at Unimaginable Levels
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Middle East, especially Iraq and Syria, are experiencing “terrorism of previously unimaginable proportions” in which the perpetrators seem to have absolutely no regard for the value of human life, Pope Francis said.
Alumni Return to Holy Innocents
Holy Innocents is proof that you can go home to your roots. The East Flatbush parish celebrated its homecoming weekend, Oct. 10-12, by welcoming back over 200 school alumni from 1941 to 2006. Other alumni events have proved to be successful, but this gathering was the most successful in recent history.
A Half-Century of Revelations
“After this I had a vision of a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation, race, people, and tongue. They stood before the throne and before the Lamb … These are the ones who have survived the time of great distress … They will not hunger or thirst anymore … For the Lamb who is in the center of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”