The role of religion in society or the issue of Church and State are well controverted these days. Perhaps the example of the issue of assisted suicide may help us to clarify our thinking on this and other important matters.
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Tablet TALK: Praying for Vocations
This week’s Tablet TALK features an invitation to an upcoming Youth Choir Festival, offers ways to keep the spiritual in focus this Thanksgiving, highlights new school board members in Middle Village and much, much more.
Lots Happening With Diocesan CYO Program
Now that the school year is in full swing, that means it’s a busy time for the Diocese of Brooklyn’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) program.
Bishop Blesses Basilica’s Chapel for Cremains
In order to give people another option when burying their dead in a sacred space, Regina Pacis Basilica restored its lower church as St. Joseph Chapel and Columbarium.
Lidia Opens Up Her Menus for the Popes
Lidia Bastianich, an Italian-born parishioner of St. Anastasia’s, Douglaston, who escaped with her family after her region in Italy was awarded to communist Yugoslavia and the Iron Curtain erected, said she got the request to cook for Pope Benedict XVI for his 2008 visit to the United States.
Papal Honors Bestowed At Co-Cathedral
Forty-nine people were honored Nov. 1 with papal honors distributed by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral, Prospect Heights. More than 1,000 people attended the vespers service and conferral of honors.
St. Rose Academy Tops In Pope Doll Contest
St. Rose of Lima Catholic Academy won the “Celebrate Family” papal photo project, and the Rockaway Beach school received a big box of treasures to remember Pope Francis’ visit to the U.S.
Steps to Strengthen Marriages
Family life is beautiful and important. It is in a family that a child comes to know that he or she is loved and first learns to love others. It is in the family where a child first recognizes the gift of faith and the obligations of charity. While beautiful and important, our Holy Father, Pope Francis, also reminds us that no family is perfect.
Around the Diocese: Oct. 31, 2015
BROOKLYN Visitation B.V.M., Red Hook — Messianic Congress, Oct. 30 – Nov. 1. $40. Call Sister Frauke, 917-515-4225, or 624-1572. Mary Queen of Heaven, Old Mill Basin — 2,000 Hail Marys, Oct. 31, 7:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. in the parish center chapel. All are welcome any time of the day. Our Lady of Grace, Gravesend […]
He’ll Run for Life at Philadelphia Marathon
While NYC Marathon runners will hit the city streets this weekend, Whitestone resident Brendan Flynn still has three weeks to train for the Philadelphia Marathon – and he’s running for a cause close to his heart.