Every so often, television can surprise you. Last Saturday’s episode of the long-running British science-fiction series, Doctor Who, broadcast on BBC America, went far beyond just the usual time travel and outer spaces themes that the 51-year old series normally covered. This episode, entitled “Kill the Moon,” was one of the most pro-life hours ever broadcast on television.
Diocese of Brooklyn Press Secretary Stefanie Gutierrez recalls the that pain is still real after passing of her daughter Anna two years ago.
I don’t know how many times during the summer that someone said to me: “The world is in a mess.” I knew immediately what the speaker meant. Often reading the first page of a newspaper can be depressing.
In the fifth part of his series, Father Robert Lauder takes a closer look at “The Joy of the Gospel” and Pope Francis’s suggestion that some people want to avoid the social dimension of the Gospel.
One of the dangers of a “sterile” form of celibacy is bitterness and gossip, Pope Francis said July 26 during a meeting with 123 priests working in the Diocese of Caserta and 19 bishops from Italy’s Campania region.
This week, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio begins the second of his three-part series of articles on the upcoming Synod on of the Family and moves to the issues for consideration in Part II of the document entitled: “The Pastoral Program for the Family in Light of New Challenges.”
Eleven years ago, she danced in her big sister’s shadow at the Great Irish Fair. This year, Tara Muldoon will follow in her sister’s footsteps as the Colleen Queen of the 33rd annual fair.
St. Kevin’s Church, Flushing, was crawling with “little critters” at the parish’s first-ever weeklong Vacation Bible School, held July 7 though 11.
I recently unearthed a letter that my 16-year-old self wrote to my future 30-year-old self.
If we really believed that the most important part of our being is united to Christ and thus incorporated into the life of the Holy Trinity – how would we comport ourselves here on earth? George Weigel says we’d be on fire with a sense of mission.
