Not forgetting Christ’s commandment to minister to the sick, students from Bishop Ford H.S., Park Slope, offered patients at New York Methodist Hospital adventures for their minds. Students delivered nearly 1,000 books to the hospital library.
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St. Dorothy of Brooklyn – Potential Saint Has Connections to the Diocese
by Deacon Don Zirkel Dorothy Day, whose cause for canonization is underway, has at least six important ties to the Brooklyn Diocese: her birth and earliest years; service as a nurse; significant retreat; volunteer co-workers; Catholic Worker house in Park Slope; and many references in the pages of the diocesan newspaper. The most influential woman […]
Radical Conversion Ordered to Mission
by George Weigel It was a brief greeting to former colleagues. But if you read Pope Francis’s April 18 letter to the Argentine bishops’ conference closely, you get a glimpse of the man, his convictions and his vision. First, the man: Jorge Mario Bergoglio has remained very much himself, rather than adopting what some might […]
Reaching the Un-churched
by Father Robert Lauder ANYONE WHO READS this column regularly may recall that last year I did a series of columns on a book that I very much like, Jesuit Father Michael Paul Gallagher’s Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger (New York: Paulist Press, 2010, 158 pages, $16.95). Father Gallagher provides […]
Experiencing the Power of Christ’s Risen Life
by Father Robert Lauder As Lent drew to a close, I decided that I wanted to write a column about the resurrection of the Lord and our participation in Christ’s resurrection. The mystery of Christ’s resurrection had been on my mind either explicitly or implicitly every time I thought about the meaning of Lent. While […]
Small Sacrifices, Big Impact at St. Pancras School
The students from Walter Stark’s sixth-grade class at St. Pancras School, Glendale, took it upon themselves to make this Christmas season a festive one. They spent Advent collecting money by making small sacrifices. Foregoing treats for themselvess, students pooled their money for a donation fund. Their generosity inspired their parents to also contribute. Before school […]
Spreading Christmas Cheer
Students around the diocese spent Advent getting themselves ready for Christmas and helping others do the same. In Middle Village, the school community of Christ the King got into the spirit of the season at its annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. More than 200 people joined in the festivities. Santa was on hand for pictures, […]
Angels of Newtown – Pope Prays Over ‘Senseless Violence’
by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – After 20 children and six adults were shot dead in Connecticut, Pope Benedict XVI offered his condolences and prayers, urging all to dedicate themselves to acts of peace in the face of such “senseless violence.” After reciting the Angelus Dec. 17, the pope, speaking in English, said he […]
One Life Changed History Forever
by Msgr. Joseph Calise As we celebrate the fourth Sunday of Advent on the liturgical calendar, the more worldly calendar is telling me that it is also the day before the day before Christmas. Gratefully, my Christmas chores are done – gifts are bought and wrapped, schedules are set and cards are in the mail. […]
Loved and Forgiven
The temptation to expect each Christmas to be a reprise of storybook models, reality-free, where innocence is spared the inevitable confrontation with the mystery of evil is less likely to hit us this year. As the day approaches, we adults customarily form a little pact between our children and the child within us to once […]