Dear Editor: I remember the late Father Anthony Dell’Anno fondly from Immaculate Heart of Mary parish.
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Empathy for the immigrants
Dear Editor: Regarding Bishop DiMarzio’s recent column (May 21) regarding immigration, the bishop opposes a two-class system and mentions the experience of black slaves in America. The black slaves came to America in chains. Today’s undocumented come of their own volition, acknowledging that many come because of extreme adversity in their native countries. Others come for opportunity.
Two Social Viruses
Dear Editor: In a recent edition, there were several clarion calls for action in defense of our Catholic and faith-based teachings of the Gospel of Christ in the contemporary secular humanist war against our Church teachings and God’s Commandments as the foundation of our world’s moral and ethical value system and code. These were topped off by The Tablet’s page-one headline “Solution for Conscience Clause” (April 30), the basis of which is a government mandated insult to all men and women of good faith and a denial of their First Amendment rights.
Congrats to Our Priests
Dear Editor: Congratulations and many thanks for the Priests’ Jubilees which you published in The Tablet (May 21).
New York’s Finest
Dear Editor: On behalf our chaplain, Msgr. Robert Romano, the board of officers, and the membership of the NYPD Brooklyn-Queens Holy Name Society, we would like to thank you for the excellent coverage of our annual Mass and Communion-Breakfast.
Support of Woodside Parish
Dear Editor: The family and friends of the late Major John H. Mark Jr. (U.S. Army) thank everyone who made the “Broadway Comes to Woodside” scholarship benefit performance held at Corpus Christi Church, Woodside, on April 17 a financial and theatrical success.
Congrats, Father Czok!
Dear Editor: We are overjoyed to congratulate Father Robert W. Czok and the Class of 1966 for their 50 years of ordination to the priesthood.
Teen’s Family Grateful
Dear Editor: I want to thank Maria-Pia Negro Chin for the great article “Queens Teen Has Heart Set on a Medical Career” (April 23) on Gregory Nelson.
Visitor from Fatima
Dear Editor: I was at Our Lady of Guadalupe for the visit of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. Msgr. Romano, pastor, gave some beautiful words about how Our Lady watches over. She watches over the police department of which he is a police chaplain.
New Pastoral Graduates
Dear Editor: Congratulations to the Pastoral Institute’s Class of 2016. Another class of lay ministers is now available to serve the needs of the Diocese of Brooklyn.