by Marie Elena Giossi Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio held an awards reception Oct. 18 to honor local recipients of this year’s national Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Grant recipients were personally congratulated by the bishop as well as Msgr. Alfred LoPinto, diocesan vicar for human services; Robert Siebel, CEO of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens […]
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Immigrants Honored as Our Shining Stars
Deacon Chris Barber, who serves at St. Clare’s parish in Rosedale, is a special guy. You could say he was special because he was the only boy in a family that included nine sisters. You could say he was special because he once thought of being a priest and studied at Cathedral Prep Seminary, Elmhurst. […]
Diocese Renews Efforts to Protect Immigrant Workers
Earlier this year, representatives of the diocese’s Catholic Migration Services met with government officials to renew an alliance that has been promoting the rights of immigrant workers since 2009. Catholic Migration Services operates Linea Laboral, a toll-free workers’ rights hotline, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in New York, the U.S. Department of […]
Dreams Deferred – Young Immigrants Respond to Obama’s Program Offering Prosecutorial Discretion
by Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – The first days for applying for deferred deportation for some young adults under a program to use prosecutorial discretion brought out tens of thousands of applicants to workshops around the country and a first wave of responses from state governments about what privileges they would and would not extend […]
Busy News Week Offers Variety of Reactions
It’s been a busy news week. The biggest story of the week – the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Health Care Act, better known as ObamaCare – happened after The Tablet went to press. That’s the problem with a weekly newspaper. You’re always catching up. We will have complete coverage of church-related reactions to […]
Abuse of Immigrants Also Occurs Here
by Robert McCreanor Much public outrage has been generated by reports of inhumane working and housing conditions for employees at the Foxconn production site in China. The revelation that our iPhones, iPods, and various other wonder gadgets may be assembled by Chinese men, women and children who toil in dangerous workplaces, sustain crippling physical injuries […]