Dear Editor: In reference to your splendid coverage (April 18) of Msgr. Bernard J. Quinn’s memorial Mass, please note that the majority of persons attending it were from diverse parishes from the Brooklyn and Rockville Centre Dioceses and not just from St. Peter Claver Church. The Cause for Father Quinn’s canonization has thus moved beyond […]
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Parish Feast Day
Father Philip Pizzo, pastor of St. Benedict Joseph Labre parish, Richmond Hill, blesses a statue of the saint during Mass on the Third Sunday of Easter, April 19. The annual blessing observed the saint’s feast day, April 16, as well as the 123rd anniversary of the founding of the parish. The Queens parish is the […]
Visiting a Saintly Site
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio celebrated a Mass to observe the 75th anniversary of the death of Msgr. Bernard Quinn, a Brooklyn priest whose cause for sainthood is being studied at the Vatican. The bishop and a contingent of parishioners from St. Peter Claver, Bedford-Stuyvesant, processed to Msgr. Quinn’s burial site for a prayer service. For the […]
Mercy Is the Theme of Shrine in Ridgewood
On Divine Mercy Sunday, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio blessed a new chapel dedicated to the Divine Mercy image and two of its champions, St. Faustina and St. John Paul.
Claverites Think Their Pastor Was a Saint
It’s been 75 years since the death of Msgr. Bernard Quinn, the founder of St. Peter Claver parish in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and the founder of Little Flower Camp in Wading River, L.I. His legacy is such that people believe he was a saint and his cause for canonization is currently before the Congregation of the Saints […]
Taking Flight With the Patron of Studying
I am from Sacred Heart parish in East Glendale, and I have had the pleasure of working in Sacred Heart Rectory for the past 20 years, since I was 13 years old. My pastor Father John Fullum suggested that I contact the editor of The Tablet, so here I am.
Diocesan Pilgrimage to Spain and Portugal
Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros led a pilgrimage to Spain and Portugal for the 500th anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila.
St. Joseph Honored as Role Model to Haitians
Husband, father, laborer and immigrant – that is how retired Auxiliary Bishop Guy Sansaricq described St. Joseph to more than 500 Haitian Catholics who gathered to honor the patron of the universal Church on his feast day.
Vatican Sets Date for Romero’s Beatification
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be beatified in San Salvador May 23, said Italian Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the chief promoter of the archbishop’s sainthood cause.
Pope Expected to Canonize St. Therese’s Parents
The couple was beatified in 2008. They are believed to be the first parents of a saint to be beatified, highlighting the important role parents play in their children’s human and spiritual upbringing.