Dear Editor: As is often the case, a small mention of someone of note shows up in a back page of a publication. In the Feb. 7 issue of The Tablet was a mention of a once well-known baseball coach being honored by the N.Y.S. Hall of Fame. His name is Joe Austin, once one of the highest regarded men in local baseball.
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Sister Had the Touch
Dear Editor: Sister Charles (Sister Ann Fitzpatrick, C.S.J.) (March 2, 2013) was my first-grade teacher at St. Augustine’s in 1956 and I loved her.
Little Sisters, Big Hearts
Dear Editor: I am connected with Queen of Peace Residence in Queens Village which was featured in the Tabet (Jan. 31).
Stop PC Kowtowing
Dear Editor: I want to thank Father David Bertolotti for his magnificent and very inspiring letter (Feb. 14) titled “Cuomo’s Personal Choice.”
More Homily Comments
Dear Editor: I am responding to the invitation in The Tablet (Feb. 7) entitled “Need for Good Homilies.” First, let me acknowledge that in my parish we have wonderful, dedicated priests. Therefore, this letter is not to criticize but to offer some thoughts that are intended to be constructive regarding homilies at Mass on Sunday. […]
Great Homilists in Diocese
Dear Editor: This is in response to your request (Feb. 7) for those priests/deacons whose love for the Sacred Liturgy and Sacred Word have edified parishioners with that same love.
Cuomo’s Personal Choice
Dear Editor: I want to comment on Father Ed Mason’s article (Feb. 7) in the “Up Front and Personal” column. I consider Father Mason to be a good man who I really personally admire.
Ukrainian Pope
Dear Editor: I disagree with Albert Licata’s referral (Jan. 24, Readers’ Forum) to Kirel I, starring Anthony Quinn in the movie, “Shoes of the Fisherman,” as being the “first non-Italian Pope, in this case, a Russian.” In both his novel and the movie, Australian writer, Morris West, portrays Kirel I as the first elected Ukrainian Pope. However, I […]
Searching for Carmelites
Dear Editor: I am originally from St. Nicholas of Tolentine parish in the Bronx, and was so blessed to meet several Carmelite priests from Kerala there in the late 1950s. I am traveling to India next month, specifically to Kerala, and am hoping to at least visit the monastery from which they came. The three […]
Understanding the Pope
It seems that just about every time Pope Francis makes wonderfully “shocking” statements, there are those in the Church who try to slice and dice the value of his words by adding phrases such as “taking his words out of context,” “not what the Church teaches,” “this is what the Pope really means,” and so on.