One of the key worries that many have concerning the next academic year 2020-2021 is whether classes will be conducted on site or online. What is the best solution? This is a question from so many concerning all levels of education. What will school look like in the future? And, in particular, what can and should Catholic schooling look like next year?
Editorials
Violence Is Never the Answer
What happened in Brooklyn last weekend when concerned citizens gathered to make their views known was nothing short of shameful and cast a foreboding shadow over the course of current events.
The Need to Develop Virtues
Virtues remind us of the ultimate final goal of our life — to become like God! Put everything else aside — all of our temporary desires and preoccupation, and what is most important, in the end, is our final destiny.
It’s a Blessing That We Are Soon Open Again
With the good news that daily Masses can resume in the Diocese of Brooklyn, albeit with a limited 25 percent capacity, on Monday, June 29, and for Sunday Mass, on the weekend of July 4-5, there
is much for us to be grateful for at this juncture.
Three Books for The Summer
Every year, the Editors of The Tablet invite bishops, priests, deacons, religious, and laity throughout the Diocese of Brooklyn to submit their summer reading list.
We Christians Are People of Hope
To say that 2020 has been an annus horribilis (horrible year) is an understatement. Regardless of what the next few months will bring, there needs to be a reality sinking into our consciousness now — nothing will ever be the same again. It can’t be and, hopefully, as much as we might want, it won’t be.
The Trinity — One and Yet a Community!
One of the more interesting films of the past 20 years or so — Tom Hanks’ “Castaway” (2000, directed by Robert
Zemeckis) — was the story of a man, Chuck Nolan, whose Federal Express freight airplane crashed on a desert island.
The Gradual Reopening For Public Worship
On Ascension Thursday, May 21, 2020, at the Church of Our Saviour in Manhattan, His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York held a press conference to announce a multi-step plan for the re-opening of parishes in his archdiocese for public worship.
First Things and Mask Wars
For the past few years, the editor of “First Things” has been R.R. Reno. Dr. Reno is a very intelligent man and a fine theologian. He is also a practicing Roman Catholic, converting to the Catholic faith from the Episcopal Church in 2004.
May Is for Mary
At the risk of sounding like a cliché, as the poet T.S. Eliot opined, “April is the cruelest month,” and indeed, in the Year of Our Lord 2020, it has proven to be. There is no need for us to recount the misfortunes that each of us has encountered this past month. And, sadly, it seems that the month of May appears to only be slightly better.