The seventh-grade class at Sacred Heart School, Bayside, visited the Alley Pond Adventure Course in Queens. The adventure course is designed to focus on team-building, problem-solving and communication skills through games and low- and high-element activities. Prior to the field trip, the students had been working on an adventure education unit in their physical education […]
by Father Robert Lauder Third in a Series AT ST. JOHN’S University in any philosophy course that I teach that involves some serious reflection on the mystery of person, I emphasize the freedom of the human person. One reason I do this is that I believe freedom is one of the great gifts that God […]
by John Mulderig Since the advent of cinema in the late 1800s, faith has been treated on film in a wide variety of ways, from the respectful to the satiric. With the Church’s observance of the Year of Faith continuing, here in alphabetical order are capsule reviews of 10 films that engage with this often […]
Tablet reporter Antonina Zielinska filed several dispatches from Rio de Janeiro. Here are her reports about spending a week with diocesan pilgrims to World Youth Day. RIO DE JANEIRO – After a day of sightseeing and walking over two hours to the Copacabana beach for the official opening Mass of World Youth Day 2013, […]
MaryGrace Donohue, 18, of Holy Family parish, Flushing, shared her journey to faith with about a thousand English-speaking pilgrims. She told the pilgrims that at first she saw the opportunity to come to Brazil as a tourist adventure. “I was lacking faithful desire to be here,” she said. Growing up in an Irish Catholic family, […]
In order to enhance his pilgrims’ World Youth Day experience, Father Josephjude Gannon took his parish group from Queens on a Rio de Janeiro adventure to experience Catholicism Brazilian style. Father Gannon, the administrator of St. Gerard Majella parish, Hollis, referred to his World Youth Day iPhone app to see what events would best suit […]
by Father John P. Cush I REALLY CONSIDER myself blessed to have been assigned to Rome for post-graduate doctoral work this past semester. Instead of just reading about Church history, I had the opportunity to live it out in the events of February and March, 2013. The resignation of our beloved Benedict XVI and his final days […]
Lumen Fidei 1. The light of Faith: this is how the Church’s tradition speaks of the great gift brought by Jesus. In John’s Gospel, Christ says of himself: “I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness” (Jn 12:46). St. Paul uses the same image: “God […]
by Bill Dodds I’M NOT SURPRISED that this summer is bringing back many memories of times when our three children were younger. This is the first one since their mom, my wife Monica, died last winter. What surprises me, but shouldn’t, was how wise she was about making family memories. She was the one who […]
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 […]
