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.
St. Bernadette’s School, Dyker Heights, raised more money than any other elementary school in the diocese in 2010 to help the world’s Catholic missionaries. The boys and girls brought in $10,828 which they dedicated to the missions through the diocesan office of the Propagation of the Faith. In Queens, the school with highest total of […]
It took two events to honor the award winners at this year’s Shining Stars Dinners, sponsored by the diocese’s Catholic Migration Services. Thirty-one people, one from each of the ethnic apostolates served in the diocese, were chosen for their dedication and service to the Church and community. Both ceremonies were held at Gargiulo’s, Coney Island, […]
I was thinking about Christopher Columbus, of all people, over the Columbus Day weekend. I was wondering what ever happened to the movement to have him beatified and eventually become a saint in the Catholic Church. By all measures, he was a devout Catholic whose crew members publicly recited prayers on his ships. One of […]
This week we begin a special series on these pages and on The NET. For the past year and a half, the diocese has been actively involved in an intense process known as Christ Jesus, Our Hope. Parishes have been asked to take a hard look at themselves and to establish plans to assure that […]
For whatever reason, the influence of religious institutions upon public and private lives seems to have waned. Individuals feel more comfortable making up their own minds without seeking counsel from the Church. That carries over into the public forum as public officials seem less likely to seek proper guidance. The results, of course, is that […]
When news came that Sister Betty Lamb, O.P., had died Sept. 19 at Maria Regina Convent in Brentwood, it was not unexpected. She was 84 and had been sick for some time, suffering from a form of dementia. She wasn’t the Betty Lamb we knew when she joined The Tablet staff in 1972. Instantaneously, she […]
Retired Bishop Thomas V. Daily remembers exactly where he was when he heard about the attacks on the Twin Towers. Bishop Daily, who was Bishop of Brooklyn at the time, was sitting in his seventh-floor office at 75 Greene Ave. in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. He was speaking with a priest of the […]
Ten years after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, it’s clear that it was a day that changed all of our lives. The attacks against America awakened us to the terrible threat of terrorism and the reality that it could to any one of us. I was driving to work […]
In one week, we survived an earthquake and a hurricane. Who would have thought! Some managed with a little help from their friends. Like the 28 parishioners of St. Mary Star of the Sea parish, Far Rockaway, who called their former pastor and found shelter. Far Rockaway is located in Evacuation Zone A. Evacuation was […]
I hope you’ve been reading The Tablet and watching The NET these past two weeks. If so, you’ve had a front-row seat on one of the most uplifting news stories of the year. If you haven’t been tuned in, and instead have been watching network TV or reading the daily newspapers, you missed it all. […]
