The Catholic social justice group, Network, should be ashamed of the role it tried to play to negate the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Editor Emeritus – Ed Wilkinson
Ed Wilkinson, a member of The Tablet staff for more than 45 years, is Editor Emeritus. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Cathedral College and studied theology for a year at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y. He is an active parishioner at Our Lady of Angels parish in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
Below is a Currents News special about Wilkinson as well as an archive of his columns from The Tablet.
The Church is One
The Church certainly is in a mess right now. The clerical sex abuse scandal and the attempt to protect children have blown into a full-scale civil war of liberals versus conservatives. It’s gone so far that some people are actually calling upon Pope Francis to resign from his office.
Bonds of Family Unite The Church
It would be a shame if last week’s papal trip to Ireland was judged simply as a referendum as to how the Church is handling the sex abuse crisis. While Pope Francis went to Ireland to affirm the World Meeting of Families, most of the headlines of the week surrounded the recent grand jury report about clergy sex abuse in Pennsylvania and Cardinal McCarrick’s resignation from the College of Cardinals as well as the history of abuse in Ireland.
Details of Abuse in the Church Must Be Heard
As I transition away from the Editor’s desk and into my new role with DeSales Media, I wish I had cheerier things to write about. Unfortunately, the clergy sex abuse scandal that has gripped the Church for so many years continues to haunt us.
Bishop Listed Among the Power Elite of Brooklyn
New Yorkers are discovering something that Catholics always have known – the Bishop of Brooklyn is an important person.
Have You Renewed Your Tablet Subscription?
We will be talking up individual subscriptions as the fall pastoral year approaches. I plan to meet with each deanery in Brooklyn and Queens to elaborate on how to bring down the parish subscribers and convert them to individual subscribers.
The Legends of Martyrs Continue to Grow
When I was a student in elementary school, I remember the nuns telling us that we would probably never be called upon to give our life’s blood for the faith. This was usually in the context about how so many martyrs had died for the faith. One of our heroes at the time was Bishop Francis X. Ford, the Maryknoller from Brooklyn who lost his life in a Communist Chinese prison camp.
The Stage Is Being Set for The Great Irish Fair
At this year’s Great Irish Fair, set for Sept. 22 in Coney Ireland, I will be pleased to accept the second annual Al O’Hagan Memorial Award for Community Service. I am honored because in some small way it will continue to keep alive the great legacy of O’Hagan, one of the chief architects of the Fair.
What Happens to a Building When It’s No Longer a Church?
Recently, a stunning Brooklyn brownstone in Clinton Hill that once was the home of Bishop Thomas E. Molloy went on the market. Asking price for the Brownstone building at 280 Washington Ave. – $13.5 million.
Can We Have a Rational Discussion About Immigration?
Since The Tablet did not publish an issue last weekend, the letters to the editor have been piling up on my desk. Most of them have dealt with one subject – the separation of families at the border between the United States and Mexico as we struggle with an influx of peoples wanting to enter the U.S.
