Trees Grow in Vegetation-Needy African Nations, Thanks to Conservation Movement  

“My name is Arouna Kandé,” says the young man from Senegal. “I am a climate refugee.” This brief introduction appears near the start of “The Letter: A Message for our Earth.” This 2022 Vatican-produced documentary is about “Laudato Si’” — the encyclical from Pope Francis sounding the alarm about climate change.

40 Years Ago, Brave Nuns Shielded a Maryknoll Msgr. From a Guatemalan Hit Squad

n the fall of 1984, Msgr. John Vesey was a Maryknoll missionary working with the indigenous people of southwestern Guatemala, but he became deathly ill with pneumonia. While bedridden, he slipped in and out of consciousness.
In moments of lucidity he saw, standing over him, Sister Alba Estela Orellana and her fellow Carmelite nuns. The Guatemalan sisters helped him minister to the Tz’utujil people of Santiago Atitlán. But Msgr.

Double Life: Catholic Architect Renovates Old Churches and Inspires Young Faithful 

By day, Queens native Jason Galindo is an architect at Zaskorski & Associates, working to renovate churches across the diocese. At night, he heads out to St. Brigid Catholic Church in Bushwick, where he works as a youth minister. In both roles, he has found a way to celebrate his faith, woven into every aspect of his life.

Bishop Robert Brennan to Lead Prayer for People of Strife-Torn Haiti

By The Tablet Staff Bishop Robert Brennan invites the faithful of the diocese to join him in prayer for Haiti at Mass on Monday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Innocents Parish in Flatbush. The church is that day’s stop on the Diocesan Lenten Pilgrimage. Haiti stands on the brink of civil war, as […]

Religious Sisters Offer Affordable Housing to Students

Rhema Khairnar isn’t a nun, but she does live in a convent. Khairnar, who is studying for her PhD in pharmacology at St. John’s University, is one of a handful of young people living in Immaculate Conception Convent in Jamaica Estates as part of a program sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood to provide affordable housing for students and young professionals. 

Catholic Church’s View on Cremation: ‘Treat With Dignity, in Life and Death’

Death, and burial, are lively topics of conversation in the Catholic Church these days. With increasing numbers of people opting for cremation over the more traditional full-body burial, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the department within the Vatican responsible for defending Catholic teaching, recently clarified the Church’s position on cremation.