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St. Aloysius Church Celebrates 100 Years
From the Great Neck Record - "Great Neck’s beautiful, majestic St. Aloysius Church celebrates its 100th birthday this year. On Sunday, June 23, the church hosts a centennial celebration, including a...
View ArticleHow the West Really Lost God
At Crisis Magazine, Austin Ruse of C-Fam looks at a new book: How the West Really Lost God by Mary Eberstadt here and then again here. Basically the book argues that the decline in religion was...
View ArticleBishop Murphy Authorizes Special Collection for Those Suffering from Oklahoma...
From the Diocese of Rockville Centre:"ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – May 17, 2013 – The Most Reverend William Murphy, Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre asks that all parishes join in prayer...
View ArticleWoolwich heroine says Catholic faith inspired her to confront attackers
In yet another terrorist attack by muslims, this time in Woolwich England, two muslims savagely hit an innocent man with their car and then cut him to death with a butcher's knife. A woman got off a...
View ArticleIslam's Civil War
Michael Coren writes a great column in the Toronto Sun about the battle within Islam: Extremist Vs. Moderates and how the west must support the moderates.Islam's Civil War"Islam is undergoing a civil...
View ArticleThe Rise of Suicide in America
The cover story at The Daily Beast is on suicide and anyone interested in a Culture of Life should take the issue seriously. The rise of suicide seems to go along with the breakdown of the family and...
View ArticleNew Pastors and priest transfers in the Diocese of Rockville Centre
June is the traditional time for the Diocese to shift priests around. The Long Island Catholic would always publish all the personnel changes, so now that it is not published weekly I suppose we will...
View ArticleDr. Peter Kreeft's conversion to Catholicism - Part 1
Over at the Catholic Education Resource Center, Dr. Peter Kreeft tells the story of his conversion to Catholicism. I has no idea he was a convert - they really should wear name tags or something."We...
View ArticleCatholic Church Mediates Ceasefire Between Honduran Gangs
I heard this story driving home from work tonight. You can listen to the story on NRP.org but it does not go into details about the Church's involvement.
View ArticleVatican: 100,000 Christians killed annually
By Catholic News ServiceGENEVA (CNS) -- More than 100,000 Christians are killed each year because of their faith, and millions more face bigotry, intolerance and marginalization because of their...
View ArticleFive Schools Get Reprieve From Rockville Centre Diocese
From CBS 2"The Diocese of Rockville Center[sic]will not be closing five grammar schools next fall.Two of the schools are in Nassau County and three of the schools are in Suffolk County.Nassau, they are...
View ArticleDisgusting perverts in political office and the priesthood
As a New Yorker, I have been accostomed to politicians being exposed as perverts or crooks (Elliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner, Vito Lopez, etc...).As a Catholic I have become accostomed to priests being...
View ArticleThe atheist orthodoxy that drove me to faith
Below is a link to a great column by Megan Hodder, a Catholic convert who was a devotee of the 'New Atheists', those angry and fundamentalist atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens,...
View ArticleFake Catholic Weddings on Long Island
When I was an altar boy I served Mass for a newly ordained priest named Fr. Robert Allmendinger. He later left the active ministry (I am not sure why) and was featured on a local investigative news...
View ArticleFr. Andrew Greeley
When I heard Fr. Andrew Greeley died the first thing I thought of was his writing about having documents hidden away about a ring of pedophiles in the Chicago priesthood. Fortunately I was not the...
View ArticleBrooklyn's Catholic churches celebrate Feast of Corpus Christi
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, a short article on public Eucharistic processions including a picture of the procession at St. Finbars. My grandfather used to work at St. Finbars as a handyman."At...
View ArticleDebunking the Myths of a Good Death
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013 Time: 6:30 PM Location: New York University Kimmel Center, Room 91460 Washington Square South, New YorkA discussion about euthanasia and the value of suffering toward the...
View Article1 Year Anniversary of Priesthood
Fr. Michael Duffy, from St. Kilians parish in Farmingdale, and the blogger at Father, Where Art Thou? has reflects on his first anniversary of his ordination here.
View ArticleThe Charismatic Renewal and the Catholic Church
The Catholic World Report takes a look at the history of the Charismatic Renewal movement within the Church. This is a short background history focused mostly on the origins in Italy, sparked by...
View Article2 Long Islanders ordained Jesuits Priests
Yesterday, at Fordham University in the Bronx, 2 Long Islanders became Jesuits:Rev. Mr. James Donovan, SJ (NYK), 48, was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on Long Island. Mr. Donovan’s Catholic...
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