A fourth-grade class at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Academy in Queens became published authors with their book A Tapestry of Tales, celebrated at a heartwarming school book launch.
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Author Celebrates Bond Between Dads, Children Through Sports
One local dad has turned his passion into a unique career, allowing dads who love sports, especially college football, to read to their children while also passing on their devout fandom.
Summer Reading 2021 Around the Diocese of Brooklyn
The Tablet has compiled its list of books that people in the Diocese of Brooklyn are reading this summer. Here are our picks for this season’s must-read books.
Recognizing What’s Worth Living For Can Guide a Faithful Life, Archbishop Says
When it comes to people Christians should try to emulate, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput puts Samwise “Sam” Gamgee (a companion to protagonist Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings) at the top of the list.
New Book Sketches Pope’s Dream for a Post-COVID World
In that brief intermezzo over the summer between what turned out to be the first and second great surges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis held a series of appropriately socially distanced, “virtual” conversations with his premier English-language explicator about what he believes needs to be done for the world to be better than it was before the crisis.
What The Diocese Is Reading, Week of July 18
Our picks for this season’s must-read books.
What the Diocese Is Reading
Our picks for this season’s must-read books.
COVID Quarantine Giving People a Chance to Catch Up on Their Reading
Everyone seems to be reading more since the COVID-19 pandemic – even Pope Francis. During his interview in March, the pope ticked off references to Virgil’s “Aeneid,” Alessandro Manzoni’s “I promessi sposi,” and several titles by Dostoyevsky.
Only in Print: With Book Clubs, Catholics Read It and Reap | February 8, 2020
“Take and read.” The words that St. Augustine once received in a divine message are taken literally by parishes in the Diocese of Brooklyn and many Catholics throughout New York City who belong to Catholic-based book clubs.
Book Describes a Dark Side of Mexico’s Catholic History
More than a war chronicle, “Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico” dissects the religious, social and political aspects of Mexico’s anti-Catholic history.