by Marie Elena Giossi Nearly 30 concerned Catholics protested Queens State Sen. Joseph Addabbo’s support for same-sex marriage legislation and rallied outside his Howard Beach district office June 15. Most participants arrived on buses sponsored by the diocesan Government Affairs Office, which organized the rally. Carrying signs affirming traditional marriage, the intergenerational group prayed the […]
Steel recovered from the World Trade Center that has been cut to make memorial crosses sits inside Hanger 17 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The World Trade Center steel program, operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, is selecting portions of steel beams recovered from the center’s collapsed […]
Jeremy Canna Third-Year Seminarian Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington “Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week” by Pope Benedict XVI “Back to Virtue” by Peter Kreeft “Beyond a House Divided” by Carl Anderson “A Biblical Walk Through the Mass” by Edward Sri Larry Celona Reporter, New York Post “Tabloid City” by Pete Hamill “Bums” by Peter Golenbock Msgr. […]
This is our special double edition of The Tablet. We will not publish an issue on July 2, so we have expanded editorial space in this week’s paper. The next edition of The Tablet will be dated July 9. It also will be a special edition because it will be originating from a new space. […]
by Antonina Zielinska To commemorate the close of the centennial year of St. Luke’s school, Whitestone, the parish invited Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio and school alumni to participate in a Mass of thanksgiving and a dinner-dance. “Our celebration of 100 years is in gratitude to all of those who answered the challenges of the past,” said […]
On Saturday, June 18, Msgr. Andrew Vaccari, pastor, and the parishoners of St. Mary Mother of Jesus parish, Bath Beach, celebrated a Multicultural Liturgy at the 5 p.m. Mass. The children, dressed in traditional clothing of Mexico, Italy, America and Poland, sang the lyrics of the song, “Love in Any Language” as the choir sang each […]
We go to press as the summer solstice sets in. Now the days grow shorter even as we anticipate more of them in the sun. Gas prices are swelling, but so are the fruits whose luscious juice we savor. Body time seems to slow as if to indulge the soul’s permission to just let things […]
The Choir of the Pope’s Diocese, accompanied by the Livingston Symphony Orchestra performed at Regina Pacis Church, Bensonhurst, on June 11. Under the direction of Marco Frisina, the Choir was on its first-ever tour of the United States. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio was in attendance at the Brooklyn concert.
BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – Instead of requiring that implementation of all parts of the new Roman Missal wait until the first Sunday of Advent, bishops who head dioceses can authorize the gradual introduction of the musical settings of the people’s parts of the Mass beginning in September. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, chairman […]
by Sarah Delaney VATICAN CITY (CNS) – After languishing in storage for more than 30 years, three giant collages and other works by French artist Henri Matisse have been given a permanent home in the Vatican Museums. The new space dedicated to the cartoons, models and other preparatory work Matisse did for a small chapel […]
