Five students from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens were selected for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to greet Pope Francis after his landing at the John F. Kennedy Airport on Thursday, Sept. 24. During the welcome ceremony, the students were set to give the pope a spiritual bouquet made out of prayers from students from the 86 schools in Brooklyn and Queens.
As we go to press, the focus of Pope Francis’ apostolic voyage to America has been on the first leg of the journey – his four day stop in Cuba. Historic and inspirational are just two of the adjectives to describe what we have seen thus far. Don’t underestimate the importance of this trip, not […]
Writing this column is hazardous. We have seen what Pope Francis has done and said on his apostolic voyage to Cuba. But we can only anticipate what he will say when he arrives in the United States. While President Raul Castro used his welcoming remarks in Havana to exploit the achievements of socialism, Pope Francis […]
Catholic Charities from the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. invited the nation to #WalkWithFrancis through prayer, service and action as a welcome to the pontiff. In response, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens organized a physical walk on Sept. 20 and invited all parishes to collect food for the needy during the same weekend.
Newsweek asked: “Is the pope Catholic?” He answered: “Maybe I have given an impression of being a little bit to the left, but if they want me to recite the Creed, I can!”
By walking from Pennsylvania to Washington, Juana Flores and about 100 other women hope to get Pope Francis’ attention.
By Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg In early 2012, I received an unexpected phone call from a stranger – an American Jew living in Argentina. He heard I am deeply involved in Catholic-Jewish relations and thought he had a great idea that I could help him with. The former New Yorker had become friendly with Argentinian […]
Celebrating Mass early on Tuesday, just a few hours before he was scheduled to fly to Washington, Pope Francis told Cubans, “Our revolution comes about through tenderness.”
As Cubans finally face the prospects of calmer relationships and greater ease of communication and commerce with the U.S., Pope Francis, speaking in Havana’s Revolution Square, Sept. 20, told the Cuban people that love and service, not anyone’s ideology, are the keys to their happiness.
Pope Francis began his visit to Cuba praying for greater freedom for the island’s people and calling on U.S. and Cuban politicians to continue moving toward fully normal and neighborly relations.
