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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 will not bring home the gold medals of U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps, nor will they inspire the roar of the crowd at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the same way as legendary Jamaican …
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8/18/16
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