by Jerry and Anna Parisella Dear Mr. Vice President: We have been enthusiastic supporters of your and President Obama’s fair and wise domestic and foreign policies. There is one policy, however, that is unsupportable and is considered of such long-term, precedent-setting consequence that it trumps all other issues – the HHS Mandate. We are respectfully […]
by Gene Rossi “You can call me Father Joe if Rapkowski is hard to remember or pronounce. But that’s the name over the confessional you’ll enter if you wish to confess in Italian.” That was something older parishioners from Italy never expected to hear especially from a Polish priest. But that’s how Father Joe Rapkowski […]
by Sister Constance Carolyn, L.S.P. Meet Anna. She is 91 and has been a resident of our home in Chicago for eight years. We knew Anna for several years before she came to live with us. We often saw her at Holy Name Cathedral, where she spent her days serving as the unofficial sacristan. But […]
by Stephen Kent The announcement earlier this month of the discovery of a new subatomic particle caused a good deal of excitement among particle physicists (which most of us are not) and some interest among others for being termed the “God particle” (which it is not). Confusing? Particle physics has never been known to be […]
Bby Father John Catoir Throughout his career as a community organizer, President Barack Obama is said to have used Saul Alinski’s book, “Rules for Radicals.” Some say the book proclaimed the principle of divide-and-conquer. This was one of Alinski’s strategies in the struggle to gain political power. By turning the poor against the rich, the […]
by Natasha Bisbal Do you recall the Snickers chocolate bar commercials about the unfortunate side effects of hunger? These commercials depict a routine day-to-day event, i.e. teens riding around in a car listening to music or construction workers drilling at an outdoor work site in the heat. Suddenly, the normal event is interrupted by an […]
by Father Maciej Pawlowski, S.M. I remember that day when I came to the Diocese of Brooklyn as a transitional deacon. Ordained only few months after the death of beloved Pope John Paul II, I was deeply grateful to God that my priestly vocation took root with the blessing of John Paul the Great. The […]
by Msgr. Paul Jervis The ordination of priests and bishops along with the celebration of their anniversaries at this time in the Brooklyn Diocese is an experience of profound joy. The joy was no less intense for Bernard John Quinn, a young man of 24 years, who was ordained a priest with 14 of his […]
by Congressman Bob Turner On Memorial Day, the very day that we pause to honor the heroes who gave their lives in the name of freedom, The New York Times issued a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church for protecting its right to religious freedom through the federal courts. The lawsuits argue that it is […]
by Father William J. Byron, S.J. Over the past year or so, I’ve been studying the decline in Sunday Mass attendance in the Catholic community. An old friend who knew what I was up to recently sent me a letter indicating that he had read an article I wrote based on “exit interviews” with nonchurchgoing […]
