The Brooklyn Chinese Apostolate Lay Committee organized a Summer Fun Day in the gym and parking lot of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Basilica, Sunset Park. Participants enjoyed receiving balloons from the clown, having their faces painted, jumping in the bouncer, getting wet on the water slide, challenging each other at the table games, […]
by Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Lebanon Sept. 14-16 — assuming spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria doesn’t force a last-minute cancellation of the trip — his purpose will be above all pastoral, and, as usual for papal trips, most of his remarks will focus […]
A surefire way of demonstrating the existence of universal truths is to consult common experience. No one in their right mind likes being ridiculed or made a pure object of sport or derision, or robbed or lied to. From this, we can infer that there is something innate or “natural” to humanity that expects personal […]
by Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Labor unions and other worker associations are necessary to help propel workers and their families out of poverty amid a “broken economy,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. “Economic renewal that places working people and their families at the center of […]
by Marie Elena Giossi Green thumbs have been cropping up at Mercy Home residences in Greenpoint and Rosedale this summer. Those thumbs belong to developmentally challenged adults taking part in Plant-Grow-Give, an innovative program, developed by staff, which empowers group home residents to learn new skills and take an active role in feeding and caring […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) —Fighting in Aleppo, Syria, has not spared the residences of the local Melkite and Maronite Catholic archbishops, according to the Vatican’s Fides news agency. The residence of Melkite Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart was ransacked during clashes Aug. 23. The archbishop and several priests who live in the building had fled a few hours […]
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) — A three-judge federal appeals panel has affirmed a lower court ruling that the U.S. government can fund embryonic stem-cell research despite a federal ban on funding any research that harms or destroys human embryos. Chief Judge David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District […]
by Dan Russo EDGEWOOD, Iowa (CNS) — In 2001, Abbie Steger, then in second grade, took part in a tradition that has been going on for decades at St. Mark Church in Edgewood. On the Sunday after Easter, the small, tight-knit parish’s first Communion class stands on a lawn outside the church and releases balloons. […]
At a recent reception, the Office of Faith Formation and the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Pastoral Institute honored 11 people who completed their master’s degree in theology from St. John’s University, Jamaica, and the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Douglaston. Those honored were Rosemary Burchik, Catherine Crimmins, Gladcia Drew, Marie Fouche, Rosa Gomez, Dawn Hewitt, Shirley […]
Father Robert Lauder and the diocesan Office of Faith Formation recently released the lineup for the Friday Film Festival at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston, this fall: Sept. 7 — Xavier Beauvois’ Of Gods and Men (Subtitle) Sept. 14 — George Stevens’ The Talk of the Town Sept. 28 — Franco Castaldi’s […]
