Like many young Catholics around the world, Khloe Chavez, a sixth grader at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Academy in Corona, feels an affinity with Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teenager on track to become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.
Allison Auth always thought that when she gave birth to her first child, it would be a glorious experience. “I thought the baby came and you just figured it out and fell in love with the baby,” she said.
The expression “Wear your heart on your sleeve” is a time-honored phrase. But there’s one fashion line that is offering women the chance to wear their faith on their sleeves — literally.
Msgr. John Delendick, the FDNY chaplain who passed away from a 9/11-related cancer on Thanksgiving Day, joins a sad and growing list of people succumbing to illnesses they suffered due to their service at the World Trade Center site in the weeks and months following the 2001 attack.
Pope Francis’ prayer intention for December is for persons with disabilities, and he has called for the Catholic Church to be inclusive and welcoming, to ensure that each person “feels encouraged to do his or her part for the good of the entire ecclesial body and for the good of society as a whole.”
Ellen Edelman loves to look back on pictures of the Christmas celebrations held for Families, Fathers & Children over the years, and she credits The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund for helping put smiles on the faces of those in need.
Msgr. John E. Delendick, the chaplain of the NYC Fire Department remembered for his heroic service during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, died Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day morning. He suffered for several years with pancreatic cancer, which the FDNY said it recognized as related to the attack on the World Trade Center. He was 74.
To commemorate Black Catholic History Month, an honorary Mass was celebrated at the Basilica of Old St. Patrick Cathedral on Saturday, Nov. 18, in recognition of the impact and future of Black Catholics in the Church.
This neighborhood, nicknamed “Southside” for its location south of downtown Jamaica, was a hotbed of murderous drug activity in the 1970s and 1980s.
Reconciliation. It may be achieved with the guidance of a saint.
Modern efforts by the Catholic Church to reconcile with United States indigenous people are often overshadowed by historical crimes against natives in the New World, with many recent headlines focusing on the Church’s role in boarding schools across North America.
