by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, This week, we celebrate Mission Sunday. The Holy Father’s message for this 85th World Mission Day follows the theme of “The Hope that Saves.” This day is one Sunday for the whole world to celebrate together, as every year something special happens on […]
by Debby and Randy Robertson We both noticed the boy a few seconds after he jumped up from his pew. A youngster with wavy brown hair, he had a smile on his face as he darted toward the sanctuary. Before we knew it, he plopped himself down in the presider’s chair right during the middle […]
by Monica Alvarez I was born in Quito, Ecuador, and raised in New York City. I attended a local Catholic elementary schools in Queens, and Holy Cross Academy, Manhattan, for high school. I later graduated from the College of Mt. St. Vincent-on-Hudson in the Bronx. I was at Mt. St. Vincent during the years the […]
by Bill and Monica Dodds As the Church marks Respect Life Month 2011, we want to say “thank you” to those of you who are family caregivers. We know that you are keeping busy, and we suspect that you may not have had the time to notice that caregiving is much more than what it […]
by Antoinette Bosco “God finds us again and again, when we least expect him. He finds us because he never left us.” These comforting words, found in “Why Stay Catholic? Unexpected Answers to a Life-Changing Question” (Loyola Press), stay with me because of the power contained in them. The book’s author, Michael Leach, is publisher […]
by Father John Catoir The theory of evolution has prompted many Catholics to question their faith. Before you join them in their doubt, you should know more about the troubles that surround Darwin’s theory. The doctrine of original sin is true. Even if the story of Adam and Eve is only a parable that tells […]
by Father James Devlin Remember the Alamo! Remember Pearl Harbor! Remember 9/11! We say we will remember, but I am not sure we have. We recall the faces in The New York Times, but we cannot live at the intensity of those days. Just watching the news at night brought tears to your eyes. It […]
by Anthony Foti El Camino or The Way is a pilgrimage through the northern Spanish countryside ending at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. When Msgr. Kieran Harrington, diocesan Vicar for Communications, asked me to go on this pilgrimage he told me the Camino is a representation of life, a profound spiritual experience. I was […]
by Sister Angela Gannon, C.S.J. In the week following Labor Day, students in Brooklyn and Queens will return to school. Some will attend Catholic schools or academies; others will choose charter schools, public schools, magnet schools, private schools or home schooling. The are many options in a large urban area. How fortunate we are in […]
by Antonina Zielinska After a six-hour overnight flight, with little to no sleep and no breakfast because of turbulance, the second group of World Youth Day pilgrims from the Diocese of Brooklyn arrived in Madrid Aug. 13, exhausted but ready to to begin their spiritual journey. When the pilgrims were finally allowed out of the […]
