by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – With humor and passion, Pope Francis shared highlights of his personal faith journey and explained some key points of his teaching to an enthusiastic crowd of representatives from Catholic lay movements. Celebrating a vigil on the eve of Pentecost with an estimated 200,000 people singing, chanting and waving […]
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Vermont Officially Becomes a State of Death
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Now that Vermont allows doctor-prescribed suicide, “the magnificent landscape of this state, which echoes life from its majestic mountains to its powerful waterways, no longer is reflected in the laws which govern the Green Mountain State,” said the head of the statewide Diocese of Burlington. “Vermont is now identified as one of […]
Are People Returning to Confession Because of Pope?
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The head of the Vatican office promoting new evangelization said that while he does not like the terms “Francis effect” or “Francis bump,” it is true that “Pope Francis has touched the hearts and minds of many people.” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting […]
Fontbonne Hall Closes Observance of 75 Years
Led by the Xaverian H.S. Pipes and Drums, the students and faculty from Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, processed from school to St. Patrick’s Church for a liturgy that closed the school’s 75th anniversary year. Principal concelebrant Msgr. Robert Romano, Fontbonne’s chaplain and pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish, Dyker Heights, was joined by […]
Cardinal Dolan Opposes Cuomo’s Abortion Plans
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) – If New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushes to have “a right to an abortion” codified in state law, he will face “vociferous” and “rigorous” opposition from Catholic and other pro-lifers, said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York. But the cardinal hopes it doesn’t come to that because Cuomo, he said, […]
Honor to Irish PM Kept Cardinal Away from BC
by Christopher S. Pineo BOSTON (CNS) – Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley did not attend Boston College’s commencement this year because the college honored the prime minister of Ireland, who has supported a bill to introduce legalized abortion in that country. Cardinal O’Malley said he could not support the Jesuit-run university when it conferred an […]
Vatican Renews Interest in Sainthood Process for Father Matteo Ricci
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Although it has taken more than 400 years, the sainthood cause of Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci, the 16th-century missionary to China, appears to be back on track. Bishop Claudio Giuliodori, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Macerata, Italy, where Father Ricci was born in 1552, has formally closed the diocesan phase […]
Maryknoll Jubilarians
Father James W. Lehr, M.M., a native of Elmhurst, and Father Michael O. Zunno, M.M., of Brooklyn, will celebrate their 60th anniversary of ordination as Maryknoll priests on Sunday, June 23. After ordination, Father Lehr spent the next 44 years serving in the Musoma diocese of Tanzania. He ministered as a parish priest, seminary teacher […]
Getting to Know the Triune God
by Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz EARBUG? ACCORDING to www.urbandictionary.com, it’s “a song that’s stuck in your head that you can’t get out for anything.” I have a recurrent seasonal earbug that’s been stuck in my head since second grade and that comes back on Trinity Sunday each and every year. I can even vividly visualize just […]
Giant Graduation at St. Francis College (with video)
New York Giants’ all-pro defensive end Justin Tuck challenged the more than 400 St. Francis College graduates as the keynote speaker at the college’s Spring 2013 Commencement, May 14 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. “Champion a cause. Mine is literacy. Yours might be hunger, poverty, diseases,” Tuck told the packed crowd inside the Howard […]