by Father Robert Lauder Second in a series RE-READING Richard Gilman’s “Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir”, I am remembering why I liked the book so much the first time I read it, which was probably right after it was published in 1987. Many of Gilman’s experiences in reading are similar to mine and I agree […]
The New Jersey Nets will be moving to Brooklyn for the 2012-13 NBA season, and a local product hopes to join them. Former Archbishop Molloy H.S., Briarwood, standout guard Sundiata Gaines has spent the entire season with the Nets coming off the bench. The 25-year-old will be a free agent following this season, and he […]
by Father Robert Lauder, Lately, the expression “the earthly virtue” seems to me to fit the virtue of hope. This is probably due to the way that I think about the virtue as having one foot in the next world and one foot in this. Hope is focused on the next life with the risen […]
by Father Caleb Buchanan DURING THE SEASON of Advent, the priest utters a startling phrase that explains and introduces the reason for the Incarnation: “When our need for a Savior was great……” It is hard to imagine an age when this phrase doesn’t ring true in our lives. In every age until the end of […]
Next week marks the 39th anniversary of the most remarkable adventure of judicial hubris in the history of our constitutional Republic since the infamous Dred Scott vs. Sanford (1857) decision. Through Roe vs. Wade (1973), purportedly to settle public policy by standardizing state regulation of abortion, our highest Court essentially concocted a fictive legislative chimera […]
by Father Robert Lauder Although Christmas has passed and we have welcomed a new year, I find myself still thinking about Christmas and its meaning and its mystery. For several years I have noticed the large role memories play in my Christmas experience. I suppose everyone’s experience of Christmas changes from year to year and […]
by Father Anthony F. Raso JUST WHEN WE are ready to set sail and take out boats northeast, or maybe northwest, along comes the Word of God telling us to set sail due north, period. We think that we know where God wants us to go but it turns out that He wants us to […]
by Father Robert Lauder Sixteenth and Last in a Series AS I RE-READ Father Michael Paul Gallagher’s Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger (New York: Paulist Press, 2010, 158 pages, $16.95), I am stunned by the originality of each thinker. I have the feeling that I am learning something new both […]
Continuing an 800-year-old Polish tradition, parishioners at St. Stanislaus Kostka parish, Greenpoint gather in church Monday to Saturday at 6:30 in the morning during Advent to prepare for the coming of the Messiah by celebrating the Roraty Mass. This celebration of thanksgiving to Mary is done before dawn so the church can be in complete […]
by Paul Catafago Growing up in Queens, Christmas decorations meant my mother setting up the traditional crèche, the Nativity scene, in our living room. The practice is a popular one amongst Catholics in Mediterranean countries. Every year around Christmas, the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan features a Neapolitan baroque crèche, a Nativity scene set around a […]
