Sister Doreen Longres, M.M., a longtime advocate of environmental concerns and a founder of Maryknoll Sisters Environmental Office, is one of 12 Maryknoll Sisters celebrating her 50th year in the congregation. One of two Maryknoll Sisters who helped carve out an easement of the Sisters’ property near Ossining, N.Y., making it forever wild this past […]
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Vocation Began Rolling In Queens Bowling Alley
Father Dae Kim remembers that he was called to the priesthood at, of all the places, a bowling alley in Queens. That is where he definitely decided to join the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Arriving in New York City with his parents when he was 10, he had to adjust to life in America. Ordained […]
80 Years a Nun, She Spent More Than 25 in Queens
Seated in a well-worn, comfortable chair in the Grey Nun Motherhouse in Yardley, Pa., 95-year old Sister Molly McGuire reflects on her life as she celebrates her 80th year as a woman religious. She entered the Grey Nun congregation as a 15-year-old in 1933. She grew up in Mahanoy City in Pennsylvania’s coal region, and […]
50 Years Since Death Of Blessed John XXIII
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The life of Blessed John XXIII is a lesson in how obedience and trust in God lead to an interior peace that is naturally recognized by and shared with others, Pope Francis said. Joining a pilgrimage of 3,000 people from the late pope’s home diocese – Bergamo, Italy – Pope Francis […]
Pope: Women Religious Are Very Much Needed
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis told 800 superiors of women’s orders from around the world that the Catholic Church needs religious women and that religious women need to be in harmony with the faith and teachings of the Church. “What would the Church be without you?” the pope told the women. […]
Pope Distributes First Communion and Gives Catechism Lesson
by Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Visiting an ordinary Rome parish for the first time as the city’s bishop, Pope Francis gave a group of children their first Communion and a catechism lesson on the meaning of the Trinity. The pope celebrated Mass May 26, the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, outside […]
Singer Aims to Bring Christ to 10,000 Places
by Joseph Austin WASHINGTON (CNS) – Singer-songwriter Audrey Assad seeks to bring a message of Pope Francis about building bridges to the music business. “Paul is a pontifex, a builder of bridges,” the pope said at a Mass May 8. “He doesn’t want to become a builder of walls. … This is the attitude of […]
Parish Rallies to Aid Team Denise
by Anthony J. Esposito, D.P.M. There are three major reasons, I believe, why I was able to build a successful podiatry practice. First, I opened my office in the parish where I grew up, St. Edmund’s, Homecrest, where my mother still lives and attends Mass and many are familiar with me. Second, I treat patients […]
17 New Deacons Ordained (with slideshow)
Seventeen men were ordained permanent deacons May 24 by Auxiliary Bishop Frank Caggiano, Vicar General of the diocese, at Our Lady of Angels Church, Bay Ridge. They have been assigned to serve their home parishes; several were named to two parishes to assist with local needs. The new deacons come from varied ethnic backgrounds; 10 […]
Pope Francis Will Complete Benedict XVI’s Encyclical
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Continuing a papal tradition of finishing a predecessor’s work in progress, Pope Francis intends to complete an encyclical – on the virtue of faith – begun during the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. “I can confirm that the plan for an encyclical on faith, begun by Benedict XVI, has been taken […]