Telecare to Air Town Hall with Bishop William Murphy
I just saw this announcement on the Diocese of Rockville Centre's website -ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – May 16, 2013 -- On Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2013, Bishop William Murphy will host a live 2 hour...
View ArticleBishop Murphy of Diocese of Rockville Centre
Over at The Catholic Thing, there is an article by fellow Long Islander George J. Marlin regarding Bishop Murphy - Long Island’s Bishop Murphy: Fighting the Good Fight
View ArticleAre Catholic Universities Still Committed to Working-Class Families?
The issue of college debt and the affordability of higher education is all over the news today, and with good reason. Students are graduating with higher debt than ever before and their degrees are...
View ArticleWith New Leaders In Rome And Beijing, China's Catholics Face Uncertain Future
"SHANGHAI - On the last Monday of April, this city's main Cathedral was filled with believers. They had come to honor the memory of the man who had done more than anyone to improve relations between...
View ArticleHofstra Student Shot Dead During Home Invasion
"(CBS/AP) A female Hofstra University student who was fatally shot early Friday in a Long Island home was killed along with an armed suspect during a police-involved shooting as authorities responded...
View ArticleNassau County NY Catholic Blog
I wish I had noticed these great blogs earlier - they both take you on a tour of parishes with lots of pictures and some history. It is a wonderful idea and a great job by the blogger - I will be...
View ArticleBombers target Catholic church in Benghazi, priests escape unhurt
I wonder if the State Dept. would like to spin this Benghazi story?"Fr Alan Castillo and Fr Raghib Marzouk escaped unhurt after a bomb went off at the Catholic church in Via Torino, Benghazi, late...
View ArticleOne Up, One Down
In the 'upstate' section of NY State, which has had disasterous leadership (in politics as well as in the Church), yesterday saw the consecration of a new Catholic Church. Right down the block another...
View ArticlePentecost Sunday
This is Pentecost Sunday - the birthday of the Church! Click here for the About.com Catholicism entry on Pentecost by Scott Richert to learn about this great Solemnity."Pentecost Sunday is one of the...
View ArticleThomas E. Dennelly, RIP
I saw in Newsday the obit of Thomas E. Dennelly of Sayville and immediately recognized the name as a gentleman who often wrote letters to the editor in The Long Island Catholic, National Catholic...
View ArticleBishop Murphy Ordains 14 Men to Diaconate
Yesterday Bishop Murphy ordained 14 men to the permanent diaconate at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre. Unfortunately, I have no other info available except for their names and parishes. In...
View ArticleStar Parker: There is an alternative to the abortion culture
Yesterday there was a great column by Star Parker in Newsday regarding Kermit Gosnell and the abortion culture. (I am linking to the same column in the Washington Examiner because Newsday has a pay...
View ArticleWhat’s Killing American Catholicism – 4
Fr. Dwight Longenecker has posted part 4 of his series on what is killing American Catholicism. I found his take on the Liturgy in America to be right on target. Go and read the whole series but I...
View ArticleAmerica and Catholicism
Here is a mostly negative review of Christopher Ferrara’s "Liberty: The God That Failed".And here is a review by Jeff Miller (aka The Curt Jester) of Rusell Shaw's new book: 'American Church: The...
View ArticleFrench, Catholic And Proud: Gay Marriage Battle Fuels New Kind Of Youth...
This interesting article looks at the movement of young, orthodox and fervent Catholics in France. It is easy to see the parallel here in the US, although the article makes it sound like this is a...
View ArticleSuicide at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
It was a blogger:"Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in...
View ArticleThe Arab Collapse
Ralph Peters is a columnist in the NY Post, a retired US Army Lt. Colonel, and certainly not a dove when it comes to war, foreign policy and geopolitics. I think he has an good understanding of the...
View ArticleMass in a Mall
From PRI's The World: Catholic Church in Philippines Holds Mass in Malls"The Catholic Church in the Philippines is doing all it can to reach out. Even though the Philippines is the third largest...
View ArticleFuneral held for victim of Hofstra home invasion
From the USA Today"The Rev. Osvaldo Franklin, speaking in both Portuguese and English, told the near-capacity crowd at St. Teresa of Avila Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., that the 21-year-old Hofstra...
View ArticleTraditional Latin High Mass - Corpus Christi Sunday
Sunday, June 2, 201312:30 PMSt Matthew Roman Catholic Church 35 North Service Rd, Dix Hills, NY From the parish bulletin:This year, on Sunday, June 2nd, at the 12:30 PM Mass we will continue our recent...
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