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My visits to St. John the Divine Cathedral on Manhattan’s Upper West Side have been few. A recent trip, on Sept. 8, will stay with me for some time …
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/21/22
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Principal Tom Hamilton of St. Mary’s School in Fishkill sounded ready for the opening day of school even before the Labor Day weekend began.
Hamilton, who’s embarking on his fourth year as …
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/7/22
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Advertising has rightfully played an important role in Catholic New York’s operations from the beginning. A wall in my office at the New York …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/24/22
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Father Gregoire Fluet said the best way to fulfill his responsibilities as chaplain at Mount St. Mary College is to go …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/10/22
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You only have to follow the news to see the devastating effects of the persecution of Christians …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/27/22
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The recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/13/22
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The recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the question of abortion to individual states. A good number already have or …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/13/22
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Fra’ John T. Dunlap, who was sworn in this month as lieutenant of the grand master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, is a …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/29/22
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This time every year, the Archdiocese of New York honors vowed men and women who have given their lives in service to the …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/15/22
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The religious sisters from six communities now living in retirement at Marian Woods in Hartsdale offer a unique brand of prayerful service to each other and those they encounter.
Cardinal Dolan …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/1/22
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The morning the impending closure of the domestic bureaus of Catholic News Service was announced May 4 began like many others over the years. I had received an email from CNS staffer Carol Zimmermann …
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By JOHN WOODS
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5/18/22
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Father George Sears, the director of vocations for the archdiocese, said the new regional approach to priestly vocations …
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By JOHN WOODS
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5/4/22
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Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia …
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By JOHN WOODS
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4/20/22
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With Lent turning toward Holy Week and Easter, this is a time of year many people like to take up some spiritual reading. I would like to suggest “On Second Thoughts: A Book of Stories” by Father …
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By JOHN WOODS
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4/6/22
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The war in Ukraine, which started a week before Lent began, is very much on everybody’s minds, whether you live in New York, Poland or Argentina. In our interconnected world, it becomes …
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By JOHN WOODS
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3/23/22
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Other than their common Mass of ordination to the episcopacy March 1, Auxiliary Bishop John Bonnici and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Espaillat also shared a similar roadmap to the priesthood a dozen years …
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By JOHN WOODS
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3/9/22
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Earlier this month I went to Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, L.I., where Cardinal Dolan was leading a retreat for the archdiocese’s permanent deacons. I arrived in time to attend …
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By JOHN WOODS
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2/23/22
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The Synod listening sessions to take place during Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday, March 2, were initially planned for five regional sites across the archdiocese. Then the deans of the …
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By JOHN WOODS
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2/9/22
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Coming back to Manhattan from last Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., our bus captain, Sister Mary Margaret Hope, S.V., called for short testimonies of “graces” that her fellow riders …
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By JOHN WOODS
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1/26/22
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Linda Mele Dougherty said she is old enough to remember when many Catholics identified where they lived by their parish affiliation. In her family’s case, the parish was Our Lady of Mercy in Forest …
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By JOHN WOODS
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1/12/22
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