Catholic school students throughout the diocese made sure that others could enjoy the season before they went on Christmas break. Pictured clockwise, from top: Members from Operation Shoebox, moderated by their math teacher Kathleen Gaughan, at St. Agnes A.H.S. in College Point delivered some holiday cheer this year to the local Veterans of Foreign […]
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Bishop’s Christmas Luncheon (with slideshow)
The annual Bishop’s Christmas Luncheon, that raises scholarship money for children who attend Catholic schools and the Office of Faith Formation’s Youth Ministry in the diocese, was held Dec. 11 at Russo’s on the Bay, Howard Beach. Top photo shows Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and the honorees: from left, Msgr. Austin Bennett, Pope John Paul II […]
Surrounded by the Grace of God’s Love
by Father Robert Lauder AS ADVENT WINDS down, I imagine all of us, in different ways, look forward to the great feast of Christmas. There is a sense in which every time we pray, we are celebrating the feast of Christmas because all our prayers unite us with the Incarnate God. Still, I think it is […]
Come, O Come Emmanuel
by Sister Karen M. Cavanagh, C.S.J. TODAY THE CHURCH gives us one Word .. one Name… in Hebrew, it is a sentence. “They shall name Him, Emmanuel…” which means, “God is with us.” We are also presented with two men at very decisive moments in their lives. For each of them, the moments seem to […]
Cardinal George: An Anniversary Appreciation
by George Weigel When Francis Eugene George first sought admission to the Chicago seminary in the 1950s, Chicago Catholicism imagined itself the future of the Catholic Church in the western world – and not without reason. A lot of the ferment in Catholic intellectual, liturgical and pastoral life that would eventually produce the Second Vatican […]
Testosterone Therapy: The Other Side of the Story
by Dr. E. Barry Gordon, M.D. UNFORTUNATELY, THE “Ask the Doctor” column of Nov. 23 about the risks and benefits of testosterone therapy was as inaccurate and misleading as most media reports concerning testosterone. Here I can only address a few of the fallacies. The author made major reference to the recently publicized Veterans Administration […]
A New Holy Day
“We run the risk of concealing Christmas behind bourgeois customs and sentimentality, behind all those traditions that make this holiday dear and precious to us,” wrote Father Alfred Delp, S.J., from his cell in a Nazi concentration camp. “Yet perhaps the deep meaning is still hiding behind all those things. What this celebration is about […]
Moving Advent Themes Into Christmas Season
by David H. Powell Carol and I enjoyed lessons and carol services this Advent in various diocesan settings. Lessons and carols were originally a purely Advent prayer service composed as preparation for Christmas, but over time, the format evolved into Christmas readings and carols. Usually such a service will begin with an Advent selection like […]
Peace Light Arrives at JFK from Bethlehem
For the 12th year, Our Lady of the Skies Chapel, Kennedy Airport, and the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Catholic Committee on Scouting hosted a ceremony of reception for the Peace Light – that arrived on Austrian Airlines from Vienna – on Dec. 4. Scouting groups from all over the country drove to JFK to have their […]
Simple Joys of the Season in Bayside
Bayside families took time to enjoy the simple pleasures of the season at Sacred Heart School’s annual Breakfast with Santa, last Saturday, Dec. 7. Parishioners chatted and reconnected with each other over hot coffee and a hearty breakfast, while children created gingerbread men, mixed reindeer snacks and played holiday games with friends. Model Train Exhibit Young […]