Archive for the ‘Catholics’ Category
Pope Francis I (Updated March 16, 2013)
Updated with video from Pope’s first press conference. Says journalists & church should have same values: truth, beauty, & kindness.
Free to love: Catholic women vow dedication to poor in Brooklyn
A vibrant hive of young, mostly female missionaries, at St. Michael-St. Edward Church in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Best of the Web feature.
Dawn Eden’s Lives of the Saints for victims of sexual abuse
When Dawn Eden was five years old, she was molested by the janitor at the local Jewish temple. The janitor placed his hand on her pre-adolescent thighs in the temple’s library. After Eden complained, her mother’s response was, “How could you let him do that?”
Faint Sounds of Jazz in the Catholic church
Mary Lou Williams is one of the few women in the pantheon of great jazz instrumentalists and a great Catholic artist. Duke Ellington once said, “She is like soul on soul.” Best of Web feature.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s Benediction at the 2012 Democratic National Convention
NYC’s Dolan prayed at the conventions of both parties.
God’s Row, Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn: Ukrainians’ second home–Catholic Holy Ghost Church
3 generations of Ukrainians maintain a bit of Europe in Williamsburg just off Bedford Avenue on North Fifth Street.
Red Hat on the Empire State Building
On this “Twelfth Day of Christmas” the traditional celebration of the Epiphany, I have received a gift from Pope Benedict XVI, to become a cardinal on February 18th. It’s as if Pope Benedict is putting the red hat on top of the Empire State Building.
