by George Weigel In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off-the-record, the senior Vatican official, said to me, “They only know how to be chaplain to the czar – whoever he is.” Such asperity reflected deep frustration over the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow’s […]
Author: settinger
Respecting the Dignity of the Person
by Father Robert Lauder I recently read an essay in the Houston Catholic Worker (2013) that brought up a surprising number of pleasant memories. The essay, titled “The Personalism of the Catholic Worker Movement,” was written by Edmund Miller. I first met Dorothy Day in 1955 when I was a seminarian. A priest-professor at Immaculate […]
A Catholic Agenda
When the New York State Bishops went to Albany this past week to present a moral perspective to the public debate, they made the Education Investment Incentives Act a major focus of their agenda. As we have outlined here before, the proposal is a no-brainer as it seeks to encourage donations to public schools and […]
Road to Mercy Leads to A Life of Adventure
by Tony Rossi Kerry Weber’s adventurous pursuit of practicing mercy has made her life anything but boring. She volunteered with the Special Olympics in college and taught special education at a Navajo reservation through the Mercy Volunteer Corps after college. It was the idea of practicing all seven corporal works of mercy over the 40 […]
Preparing to Join the Church (with slide show)
More than 1,100 people were formally greeted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio during two sessions of the Rite of Election March 9 held at Christ the King R.H.S., Middle Village. The participants, known as catechumens and candidates for the sacraments, are in the final weeks of their preparation to be baptized or to receive the sacraments […]
Xaverian Men Find Poverty Hits Close to Home
Six juniors from Xaverian H.S. Bay Ridge, left their Brooklyn homes to better understand those who live in poverty just over the Hudson River. They traveled to Camden, N.J., to participate in the Romero Center’s Urban Challenge Program, a service-learning, immersion retreat experience. Raysean Marin, Michael Paparelli, Marvel Tranquille, Francois Naaman, Patrick Saint-Amour and Giuseppe […]
Education Tax Credit Support Gains Momentum
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio joined with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and major labor leaders to push for passage of a law that would permit an Education Investment Tax Credit.
Ashes in the Classroom
Deacon Richard Elrose of St. Helen Church, Howard Beach, distributed ashes to two classes of pre-kindergartners in the parish school on Ash Wednesday. Using the ashes, he traced crosses on the youngsters’ foreheads and explained that the ashes are a reminder of Jesus’ love for them.
Deanery Distributes Ashes In the Streets of DUMBO
Four Brooklyn parishes teamed up for a bold move when they took to the streets on Ash Wednesday. St. James Cathedral-Basilica and St. Boniface, both Downtown Brooklyn, and St. Charles Borromeo and Assumption, both Brooklyn Heights, distributed ashes in the street as part of an aggressive evangelization effort. They used as their guide the papal […]
Bishop DiMarzio Distributes Ashes At St. James
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio began Lent with the distribution of ashes at St. James Cathedral-Basilica, Downtown Brooklyn. He said that during the 40 days of preparation for Easter: “We must pray, we must fast and we must perform works of charity. Truly this is the heart and soul of what Lent is all about.”