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.
After 40 years, it looks like the daily press has finally discovered the March for Life. The annual demonstration in Washington, D.C., to oppose the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion generally draws just about no coverage in the press. This year, it was different. The daily papers’ websites all carried feature […]
It was chilly on the holiday marking the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but inside St. Teresa of Avila Church in South Ozone Park, the spirit was warm, and the rhetoric was hot. This was a noon prayer service, sponsored by the Vicariate for Black Catholic Concerns, to commemorate Dr. King’s […]
Fridays are usually quiet days at the New York Life Center in Bay Ridge. But when we visited recently, it was anything but. The center, a non-sectarian help place run by Catholics for pregnant women and young mothers, offers pregnancy tests, counseling, support and clothes for babies. It’s a pro-life approach to discouraging abortion by […]
If dalmatic, amice and biretta are part of your daily vocabulary, you probably were present at the Pontifical Solemn Mass that was celebrated last weekend in Latin at St. James Cathedral-Basilica in Downtown Brooklyn. For the first time in 50 years, a bishop celebrated Mass in Latin at the cathedral in accordance with the Tridentine […]
It was a year of contrasts. You might say there was the good, the bad and the ugly. Locally, we rejoiced in May when we learned that Pope Benedict XVI had named two priests of our diocese as auxiliary bishops. The ordinations of Bishops Raymond Chappetto and Paul Sanchez took place on July 11 at […]
Sometimes words fail us. What can you say to the parents of a child who has been killed in a senseless mass slaughter of innocents? Sometimes actions speak louder than words. When Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio came to The NET’s studio last Monday afternoon to help us make sense of the tragic killing of school children […]
A priest-friend writes requesting a grant from The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund. He wants to buy Christmas gifts “for people with special needs, including but not limited to the homeless, poor people who ‘fall thought the cracks,’ and seminarians with financial difficulties.” Of course, I’ll send him a check from Bright Christmas because I know […]
The regulars are responding. The Tablet’s Bright Christmas has such a wonderful following. It’s inspiring to receive checks each year from people who have been donating for years. Like Diane DeBernardo of Windsor Terrace, who sent her contribution in loving memory of her parents, the late Celia and Jim DeBernardo. Jim was a great fan […]
Donations to The Tablet’s Bright Christmas Fund have begun to arrive. Outstanding among the envelopes that were opened was one that contained two checks. One was from Hugo and Sofia Sbordone, who recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They sent me $3,500 which represented the gifts that were given to them for anniversary presents. With […]
While most of us have so many reasons to be thankful this year, some in our diocese continue to feel the effects of the poor economy, and now others have been ravaged by a killer storm named Sandy. This year’s Bright Christmas Campaign, which is conducted every year by The Tablet, will pay special attention […]
