In a series of under-the-radar moves, the Biden administration has shifted some longstanding policies about abortion access that loosen the few measures aimed at discouraging women from resorting to …
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4/21/21
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With legislators and the governor wrapping up the state budget in Albany this week, lawmakers will turn their attention to a range of other issues—including some controversial measures that have …
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4/7/21
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Asian-Americans have been marching, rallying and speaking out publicly with calls for more police protection and hate crime prosecutions after a rash of unprovoked and increasing attacks aimed at …
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3/24/21
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Cardinal Dolan’s column in Catholic New York’s last issue laid it out quite plainly. The topic, sin and how to handle it, was an uncomfortable one to be sure.
The cardinal listened on Ash …
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3/10/21
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With much of the world still grounded by the Covid-19 pandemic and mired in political, ethnic and racial division, Pope Francis is determined to take another road.
Next week, he begins a four-day …
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2/24/21
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By now, we’ve all heard of the amazing Super Bowl LV performance by quarterback Tom Brady who, at age 43, led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a blowout win over the Kansas City Chiefs and collected his …
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2/10/21
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News media has always come in for a lot of criticism—sometimes rightly, sometimes not.
But that goes with the territory of an institution that seeks to be a messenger, especially since the …
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1/27/21
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We pray that nothing like this will ever happen again in our beloved country.
We pray that we can turn the page and welcome a new administration in Washington that can lead us through the morass …
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1/13/21
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As the calendar turns to a New Year, we’re all looking ahead to better days.
How can it be otherwise? The year 2020 was an annus horribilis, a horrible year, in so many ways—the sickness and …
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12/31/20
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As we await the joyous celebration of the coming of our Lord at Christmas, we’re experiencing these weeks of Advent with a rising sense of hope that the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel is …
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12/17/20
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Religious freedom came out a winner last week in two important pandemic-related court rulings in favor of New York’s Catholic parishes and schools.
It’s about time.
The constitutionally …
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12/2/20
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First, we want to offer our heartiest congratulations to Cardinal-elect Wilton D. Gregory, the Archbishop of Washington who will become the first African-American cardinal at a Nov 28 consistory at …
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11/5/20
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They lived in different centuries and in different parts of the world, but in many ways Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, and Italian teenager Carlo Acutis exemplify the …
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10/21/20
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Two years in the making, the Vatican’s exhaustive report on Theodore E. McCarrick’s rise in the Church hierarchy despite allegations of sexual misconduct is disturbing reading.
The 90-year-old …
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10/18/20
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The new encyclical, signed Oct. 3 by Pope Francis, is a welcome document indeed during these tumultuous months of pandemic, civil unrest and political turbulence.
Fratelli Tutti, translated as …
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10/7/20
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The storied history of St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, begins a new chapter this semester, welcoming a new rector, Bishop James Massa, as it enters its 125th anniversary year.
We congratulate …
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9/24/20
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The response of the Church and individual Catholics to the devastating explosion in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, one month ago has been impressive and heartwarming.
The prayers, the expressions of …
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9/9/20
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As we approach the end of summer 2020, we in New York are in a situation that was unimaginable when we rang in the New Year eight months ago.
Stay-at-home orders, mandatory masks in public, social …
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8/26/20
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We’ve had a lot to cope with since we
ushered in the new decade on January
1, 2020.
The worldwide coronavirus pandemic and
its social distancing restrictions, the resulting
economic …
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8/12/20
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The bitterly contested extension of federal emergency unemployment benefits was playing out among Democrats and Republicans in Congress as we were closing this issue.
We hope it’s been resolved …
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7/29/20
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