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Article 24

September 11, 2011, 6:46 am
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9/11 - we will NEVER forget

And muslims continue to act like muslims:

4 terror suspects arrested in Sweden

"The head of the Swedish Security Service, Anders Danielsson, warned last week that "Islamic terrorism is still the biggest threat against Sweden."
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"Stockholm was hit by a suicide bombing in December. The attack on the capital, Sweden's first suicide bombing, wounded two people in a district full of Christmas shoppers."
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After the Stockholm bombing, Swedish Security Police said the country had almost 200 Islamic extremists who advocate violence, but said there was no indication their number is growing."

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Swedish authorities are investigating involvement in radicalism by Taimour Abdulwahab, the weekend's suicide bomber.

His emails before the bombings said that one reason for the attack was Sweden's tolerance of Lars Vilks' newspaper cartoon of the prophet Mohammed as a dog, authorities said. Abdulwahab, 28 -- who had lived in Iraq, Sweden and the English town of Luton -- also cited the presence of Swedish troops in Afghanistan.

That cartoon of Mohammed, published in 2007, was also cited in the new report as an example "of local events that may fuel radicalism globally."



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Article 23

September 11, 2011, 7:44 am
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From Eternity Road - please read this post:

Ten Years After

"I've received a fair amount of email this past week, inquiring about whether I planned to write something on the tenth anniversary of Black Tuesday: September 11, 2001, when Islam openly declared war on the United States. Yes, I said Islam, not "terrorists," "extremists," or "fundamentalists." We have it on the authority of a head of state -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey -- that there is no "moderate Islam;" there is only Islam. Any number of imams, mullahs, ayatollahs and so forth have said the same -- and have proceeded to justify the atrocities of Black Tuesday as a response to the "humiliation" Muslims have endured at America's hands.

What humiliation? Daring to rise and progress out of the seventh century. Proclaiming a doctrine of individual rights beyond what their scriptures allow. Treating persons of all races, sexes, and faiths as possessing a perfect right to be as they are and believe as they do. Letting women read, drive, and go about in attractive clothing, unaccompanied by a male chaperone.

We "humiliate" Muslims and Islam by being Americans: believers in freedom, a secular state, and an objective rule of law and justice."

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Article 22

September 19, 2011, 5:29 pm
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Pope Names Bishop Peter A. Libasci as New Bishop of Manchester

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – September 19, 2011– Pope Benedict XVI today named the Most Reverend Peter Anthony Libasci, 59, to be the new Bishop of the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire. The appointment was announced in Washington, DC today by Rev. Msgr. Jean-Francis Lantheaume, Chargé d’Affaires at the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States. Bishop-designate Libasci will succeed Bishop John Brendan McCormack.

Most Reverend Peter Anthony LibasciBishop-designate Libasci will be installed as the tenth bishop of Manchester at Saint Joseph Cathedral on December 8, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. E.S.T.

Since his ordination as bishop on June 1, 2007, Bishop-designate Libasci has served as the Episcopal Vicar for the Eastern Vicariate of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Bishop-designate Libasci is also bi-ritual and celebrates the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Church.




This is great news for New Hampshire and sad news for Long Island. He is now the second bishop sent out from Rockville Centre in the 10 years Bishop Murphy has been our shepherd, the first being Msgr. Robert Guglielmone who is now Bishop of South Carolina. Which reminds me to congratulate Bishop Murphy on his 10th Anniversary as Bishop of Rockville Centre. He was installed just days before 400 of his flock was murdered and has done a wonderful job leading the Diocese.
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Article 21

September 27, 2011, 6:17 pm
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Article 20

October 15, 2011, 6:10 pm
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Bishop Murphy plans to reshape diocese

The above link is to a good article in Newsday on Bishop Murphy but does not include many details on how he will reshape the Diocese. I have said before I think Bishop Murphy has been a great Bishop and his 10 years have pushed or pulled the Diocese of Rockville Centre in the right direction:
  • Pushing Telecare to have more Catholic programming
  • Starting the Tommorrow's Hope Foundation for Catholic schools
  • Insisting parishes balance their budgets
  • Being much more generous towards the Traditional Latin Mass
  • Reforming the Pastoral Formation Institute
  • Encouraging faithful and orthodox programs
  • Overseeing some changes in the seminary
The DRVC did not at all welcome Murphy openly and many have been trying to block his efforts at leading us forward so it is amazing that Murphy has been able to get as much done as he has. The truth is so much more could have been done over these past 10 years but the Diocese had many entrenched people with very different ideas than Murphy and this has made reform tough. This Newsday article has a couple of revelations:


  • "Murphy said with satisfaction that the number of parishes running deficits is down to 24 from 83 two years ago."I wish the Diocese would publish this info somewhere, I think it is good to know the financial health of the parishes. Murphy was quoted once as saying the Church sometimes takes on too much and I totally agree. We have to be fiscally prudent and that often means cutting back and cutting out many things. We simply do not have the numbers of people and the money that was around in previous decades.

  • "The bishop also is weighing a shift at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington. Starting next year, seminarians could be sent to St. Joseph's Seminary, also known as Dunwoodie, in Yonkers, leaving the Huntington facility as a pastoral training center for ordained priests and lay people." While it has been public knowledge for some time that the seminaries would form some sort of collaboration, this is the first time I have seen it mentioned that the seminarians would be sent to Dunwoodie. Overall, I think this is good. Immaculate Conception has never had a great reputation compared to other seminaries as far as orthodoxy was concerned and this might be just what is needed.
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Article 19

December 4, 2011, 6:52 am
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Good Things in the DRVC

I am just not able to keep up with blogging - my wife and I had a baby! It would be hard to keep up with all the positive things going on right now in the Diocese of Rockville Centre even without feeding and diapering, etc.... Here are just a few:


Canonry of St. Leopold

It has now been four months since the Canons Regular of St. Augustine have come to DRVC. Check out this page to see what they have up to - please note they celebrate both forms of the Sacred Liturgy.


Seminaries Merging

The seminary program for the 3 dioceses of Brooklyn, NYC and Rockville Centre is merging together with the seminarians all training together at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers (called Dunwoodie for the neighborhood). Immaculate Conception seminary in Huntington will remain open for retreats, masters programs, and educating permanent deacons. This move was entirely expected and has mostly to do with practicality. With the number of seminarians in NYC, Brooklyn and Rockville Centre, there is no need for 2 or 3 individual seminaries. Of course, Dunwoodie has always had an orthodox reputation while Huntington did not. Overall, this will be a very positive move for seminarians, who will now study together with much larger groups at Dunwoodie and also in Douglaston, where pre-theology and undergraduate men will study. As reported all over the place, the number of seminarians is up right now so these kinds of moves are part of some very good trends within the Church.

Peter Kreeft

On the topic of Immaculate Seminary in Huntington - Peter Kreeft will be speaking there next Sunday:

"A Refutation of Moral Relativism"Dr. Peter KreeftLecture by Peter Kreeft

Sunday December 11, 2011 at 3 PM in the Seminary Auditorium

Pre-Registration is Requested

Please contact Beverly Malone in the Development Office

Phone: 631-423-0483 x102

E-mail: bmalone@icseminary.edu



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Article 18

December 17, 2011, 5:06 pm
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Latin High Mass (Missa Cantata)

St John the Evangelist in Center Moriches

Dec. 27 & Feb. 2 (candlemas).

Starts 7:30pm
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Article 17

April 22, 2012, 6:58 am
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Article 16

June 2, 2012, 8:31 pm
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Murphy seeking Vatican OK for Latino auxiliary bishop

"Bishop William Murphy said Friday he is seeking Vatican approval for the first Latino auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Rockville Centre to help serve the needs of Long Island's growing Hispanic population. Murphy said he made the request about two months ago, and that he could get an answer before the start of summer, though more likely it will come in the fall. He has submitted the names of three candidates, all from outside the diocese, whom he did not identify. "I would like that very much as a way to solidify the commitment of the church to the Hispanic population and give them at the highest level of our life as church a voice and presence that will confirm them and encourage them," Murphy said in an interview."


This makes a lot of sense considering how many Latinos are on Long Island.  Another Newsday article discusses the growing Latino population the Diocese:

Latino Catholics bring faith, fervor to Church
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Article 15

June 2, 2012, 8:34 pm
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East End church installed as basilica

 "Bishop Murphy said he asked that Pope Benedict grant this honor to Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary because of its beauty and significance as a center of worship for more than 100 years. Established for immigrant domestic workers who refused to come east to work for wealthy Protestant estate owners at the turn of the 20th century unless they had a place to worship, the parish has continued to grow with the community.

With the diocesan cathedral located in Rockville Centre, “some in Suffolk and especially the East End have felt distant from the diocese,” the bishop said in December, when he announced the pope’s decision to name Sacred Hearts a basilica. “I thought it would be a mark of recognition to the Catholics of the East End to have a parish with a distinguished history and a church building of remarkable beauty, well supported by a congregation of faith, receive this title.”

During the inauguration, Bishop Murphy blessed the traditional symbolic items granted use in a basilica – the “ombrellina,” an umbrella made in the papal colors of red and gold, and the “tintinnabulum” a miniature bell on a pole."

 

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Votive Mass for Blessed Karl I of the House of Austria

October 11, 2012, 7:44 pm
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I was alerted to this Mass by a reader:

Glen Cove (Long Island), New York

St. Patrick's Church
235 Glen Street
October 22,2012
6:30 p.m. Solemn Votive Mass of Blessed Karl of Austria

In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite with music by Our Lady of the Angels Young Womens' Chorus. Canonry of Saint Leopold (Canons Regular of Saint Augustine)

The Very Rev'd Dom Daniel Stephen Nash, Can. Reg. Prior

For more information regarding Blessed Karl of Austria see the Beatification and Canonization Site.





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Article 13

October 22, 2012, 5:14 pm
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Society of Catholic Social Scientists

 

Friday, October 26 & Saturday, October 27, 2012
at Kellenberg Memorial High School
1400 Glenn Curtiss Boulevard
Uniondale, New York 11553
(516)-292-0200  ext. 200 

 

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Article 12

February 5, 2013, 6:47 pm
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I Am Still Here

I am just not able to spend anytime blogging or being as involved in the Catholic blog community as I used to be.  I recently came across a blog by several young contributors who, as it turns out, are mostly Long Islanders.  Check out Gaudium Dei.
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Article 11

February 11, 2013, 6:23 pm
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Pope Resigns


"Pope Benedict XVI told a gathering of cardinals Feb. 11 that he no longer has the strength to carry out ministry and will resign on Feb. 28.

“I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church.

“After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry,” Pope Benedict said."

For a completely stupid analysis see Bob Keeler's editorial in Newsday, which is not worth a link.   My own thoughts are as follows:

Pope John Paul II was a great man, a Pope who absolutely  was 'made' to be Pope.  He was an athletic and fit man before his assassination so he could handle the rigorous job, until he became very old and sick.  He was outgoing and thrived before crowds.  His personal history and personality fit the job as a great man on the world stage.  John Paul II will be known as JP the Great because his papacy had a profound mark on the world.  Pope Benedict XVI was introspective, a scholar, a humble and quiet man more suited to an office job or a library, as he himself would have preferred.    Benedict did some huge things within the Church but they did not affect the wider world much.  His was more of an 'inside baseball' Papacy and this was just as important and necessary to us Catholics as Pope JP II's was to the world.
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Article 10

February 12, 2013, 1:40 pm
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Another Long Islander becomes a Bishop:

"ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – February 11, 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Coyle, 48, to be an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of the Military.  Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the United States, made the announcement public earlier today in Washington, DC.  Bishop-Elect Coyle is a priest of the Diocese of Rockville Centre and currently serves as pastor of Corpus Christi parish, Mineola, New York.
Bishop-Elect Coyle will be ordained a bishop by His Excellency, the Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop for the Military Services, at the Basilica Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2013."




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Domus Porta Fidei

April 2, 2013, 11:11 am
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Seinfeld, Baldwins and the Orthodox

April 2, 2013, 11:29 am
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I grew up in Massapequa just like Jerry Seinfeld and those Baldwin guys.  I think within this classic American suburb you can see the 'signs of the times' regarding Christianity -

The Christian Science Reading Room that had been on Merrick Rd. for decades is now St. Peter's & St. Paul's Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.

What was once an Episcopal Church is now St. Gregory of Nyssa Orthodox Church.  (OK, technically this is Seaford but it still shows the Orthodox and Liturgically rich Churches are expanding)
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Happy Easter!

April 2, 2013, 11:31 am
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It has been 22 months since I became a father and there has been little time for blogging.  I am going to try to do it more often now, as long as my son will allow me.  Happy Easter!
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Christian-Jewish Relations In the Middle Ages According to Primary Sources

April 2, 2013, 6:14 pm
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At Seton Hall University in New Jersey:

The Department of Catholic Studies is pleased to present a lecture in its Medieval Catholicism Lecture Series, entitled "Christian-Jewish Relations in the Middle Ages according to Primary Sources: Nicolas Donin and the Paris Talmud Trial of 1240." The lecture will be presented by Piero Cappelli, Ph.D., Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, Italy, and Visiting Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 11 at 4 p.m.in The Walsh Library’s Beck Rooms A and B. This event is free of charge and open to the public. Light refreshments to follow.

About the Lecture

The thirteenth century marked a turning point in the relationship between Christians and Jews. In a single decade, from 1230-1240, the status of the Jews and Judaism in the Holy Roman Empire and in the other Christian kingdoms of Europe was transformed and defined for several centuries to come. These events can be viewed and understood through the prism of one man: Nicolas Donin, the convert from Judaism who acted as the prosecutor in the first public trial against the Talmud in Paris in 1240. This lecture will explain how and why Nicolas Donin stood at the crossroads of religious and political developments in his lifetime, according to primary sources. The lecture will expand the analysis from the intellectual discourse to its application in the 13th century politics.

About the Lecturer

Piero Capelli is an Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy, and a Visiting Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Primo Levi Fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Capelli's research interests are focused in the history of texts and ideas in late antiquity and medieval Judaism, especially in the Greek pseudepigrapha, in Hebrew and Aramaic rabbinic literature, and in medieval Jewish-Christian intellectual polemics. His most recent book is a history of the conceptual field of evil in Judaism from the Bible to early Qabbalah (Il male, Florence 2013). He is currently working on the first critical edition of the Hebrew account of the public trial held against the Talmud in Paris in 1240, which results he will share with us in this lecture.
 



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Faith On Tap

April 3, 2013, 6:27 pm
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I have not been to a Faith on Tap in quite awhile (which makes sense since I am no longer of the age group for this event), but hopefully I will stop by sometime because they were always interesting and fun.


"Being A Young Catholic in the 21st Century"

All Young Adults
You are invited to join us on
Monday, April 22 for our Next Faith on Tap

cameronJoin us on Monday, April 22, as Paul Morisi discusses the challenges that face young adults in the church.  Why do young adults leave the Catholic Church ... and why do others stay? What does the Church offer young adults in the 21st Century?  Come out and join us as we discuss these issues!


Faith on Tap will be held at the Wantagh Inn
3264 Railroad Avenue 
Across from the RR Station
Doors will open at7:00
Come out early ~ have dinner ~ meet new friends ~
re-connect with old friends
Talk begins at 7:30
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