Pope Francis has a “burning desire” during this special Jubilee Year. He wants us to reflect on and practice the corporal and spiritual works of mercy so that we may “enter more deeply into the heart of the Gospel where the poor have a special experience of God’s mercy.”
I’ve evolved through various stages of Marian devotion in my life. … Nevertheless, even today I struggle to know her.
IT’S BEEN A good reading year and I highly recommend the following to the readers on your Christmas (not “holiday”) shopping list.
St. Catharine of Alexandria School, Borough Park, alumnus Nicholas Fialo reflects on the ministry of the Sisters of the Religious Sacred Heart of Mary, who are leaving the parish after 110 years of service.
After the recent attacks on Paris, what happens next? What kind of world do we want to live in?
I remember being 12 and watching my country bomb Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. I remember wondering if girls like me in Baghdad were looking up at the fire in the sky from homes like mine, wondering if they were going to be all right.
For the past two weeks, I have been writing about the meaning and process of marriage annulments. How does this play out in the Diocese of Brooklyn?
AS I WRITE, just before Thanksgiving, it’s been over a month since Synod-2015 finished its work. Yet, there is still no official translation of the Synod’s Final Report into the major world languages from the original Italian (a language regularly used by 8/10 of one percent of the world’s population). That’s a shame because, in […]
Shortly after jihadist murderers killed over 130 people in Paris, with seven of the terrorists blowing themselves up in the process, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to the nation and described the massacres as “an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.”
An annulment is not a declaration of the invalidity of a relationship; it’s the declaration of the invalidity of consent.
Like many families, during the holidays we try to focus on thankfulness by asking each guest at a festive meal to express that for which they are most thankful.
