The winner of Italy’s version of “The Voice,” Sister Cristina Scuccia, O.S.U., will make her first stage appearance in the U.S. next month when she lends her singing talents to benefit Catholic education.
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Archdiocese Offers New Plan To Compensate Abuse Victims
The Archdiocese of New York has initiated a voluntary Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program to promote healing and serve as a “tangible sign of the church’s outreach and reparation” by providing compensation to victim-survivors of sexual abuse as minors by clergy of the archdiocese.
Columbus Day Is Part of a Very Busy Diocesan Social Calendar
For the past two weekends, I have been partying with Italians.
Reminder That Doctors Are Healers Not Killers
Applying Catholic principles about death and dying issues to New York State laws was the topic for Kathleen Gallagher of the New York State Catholic Conference, when she visited Brooklyn Wednesday evening, Oct. 5.
Faiths Share Concept of Mercy
A Catholic, a Jewish, a Muslim and a Protestant leader got together at St. Francis College last week to talk about Mercy.
Italians Celebrate
The Italian Apostolate in Brooklyn and Queens held a diocesan celebration in honor of the Feast of the Guardian Angels. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio participated in a street procession from Grand Army Plaza to St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, where he celebrated Mass for the people killed in the recent earthquake in Italy. For more about the celebration, see The Editor’s Space.
No Tears Shed Over Ouster of Markey
When upstart Democratic primary challenger Brian Barnwell defeated incumbent NY Assemblywoman Margaret Markey in the Primary Election Sept. 13, there weren’t many tears shed in Catholic circles.
A Night to Remember
State Senator Martin Golden held his annual Memorial Rally on the Veterans’ Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge on Sept. 11, in honor of those who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Underfunding Forces HeartShare To Relocate Services in Queens
HeartShare’s Evaluation Services for children with developmental delays have relocated to its pre-school sites in Richmond Hill and Howard Beach.
Mozart Adds to Local Sounds of Remembrance
St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights, reverberated with the sounds of the 18th century when Mozart’s Requiem was performed as part of a 9/11 remembrance liturgy. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was the main celebrant of the annual liturgy for the 23 members of FDNY Battalion 57 who died on Sept. 11, 2001 in the terrorists’ attacks on the World Trade Center.