Ten students from SS. Joachim and Anne School, Queens Village, participated in a day to remember, courtesy of Yankees HOPE Week. The students were all Haitians and were victims of the 2010 earthquake that devastated their homeland. They also are recipients of educational grants from the diocese’s Futures in Education Foundation. The students were told […]
Advent
We’re Moving, We Are Not on Vacation
As I write this, there are boxes all around me. I need to pack. Outside the office, summer interns are busy clearing cabinet files. Documents containing business transactions and editorial matters are being stored in cardboard boxes as they are made ready for another move of The Tablet’s office. As you should already know, there […]
Some Liturgical Revisions May Begin in September
BELLEVUE, Wash. (CNS) – Instead of requiring that implementation of all parts of the new Roman Missal wait until the first Sunday of Advent, bishops who head dioceses can authorize the gradual introduction of the musical settings of the people’s parts of the Mass beginning in September. Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans, chairman […]
The Old New Missal
Ecclesia semper reformanda —the Church must always be reformed. Remember that from Vatican II? Liturgical renewal may seem a far cry from sweeping Church reformation but it is no less continual and inevitable. Are there not still some older Catholics who remember the unsettling speed — for others not soon enough — with which significant […]