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September 2019

September 08, 2019

Is this what church looks like in a post-Christian world?

Leave it to The New York Times to find a church in Manhattan where belief...

April 2019

April 14, 2019

Enter the Sanctuary Singing: My Palm Sunday in Queens

It was a busy and eventful Palm Sunday in Queens — and it started yesterday,...

February 2019

February 03, 2019

A more excellent way: Homily for February 3, 2019, 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Is there any scripture passage more familiar than that reading from Paul’s letter to the...

February 01, 2019

Bishop of Albany on Cuomo: ‘We are taking attention away from what really is the problem’

Bishop Ed Scharfenberger, who himself holds a license in canon law, offers some thoughts on...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

On Cuomo: ‘The governor is taunting the Catholic community and would wear excommunication as a badge of honor’

From my bishop, Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn: Recently, some in the Catholic community have called...

January 19, 2019

‘Do not build this Death Star’: Albany’s bishop writes to one of his flock, Governor Andrew Cuomo

A letter from Bishop Edward Scharfenberger to the governor of New York: Dear Governor Cuomo,...

January 10, 2019

A crime to be pro-life? Proposed abortion law for New York ‘worse than we thought it would be’

From The Evangelist in Albany: Officials at the New York State Catholic Conference are calling the Reproductive...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

Ordination update: 10 new deacons for New York

Thanks to Deacon Jack Shea for sending along these snapshots of The Big Event held...

March 2018

March 26, 2018

All are welcome, all are screened: New York City churches install metal detectors

Details: The two stone churches near the foot of Broadway, in the shadow of the...

March 23, 2018

Cardinal Dolan: The Democrats have abandoned Catholics

The cardinal archbishop of New York has penned a blistering op-ed piece in today's Wall...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

The schuss of the fisherman: bringing Mass to skiers in upstate New York

Photo: Robert Kirkham / Buffalo News From The Buffalo News: It’s Sunday morning and, beneath...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Trim the tree, then clean your soul

Earlier in the week, I suggested some ways that those of us who spend a...

October 2013

October 31, 2013

A new church will rise at Ground Zero

Details were first reported in The New York Times: A gleaming, monumental and unmistakable symbol...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Something Cool: Time Lapse Video Shows Restoration of St. Patrick’s

A brief glimpse at some of the ambitious work now underway in midtown Manhattan, restoring...

July 25, 2013

Archdiocese of New York Hires Outside Organization to Run Schools

Details: In an unprecedented move, the Archdiocese of New York is trying to save six...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

Fr. George Rutler Reassigned

The well-known priest—an Episcopal convert, staunch traditionalist and a familiar fixture on EWTN—is leaving the...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

Report: 60% of teen pregnancies in New York end in abortion

Details: New York has the highest teen abortion rate in the country, but per capita...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

Making all things new: how a Manhattan church was saved

A heartening story from this morning's New York Times: For more than 160 years, St....

January 18, 2013

Crime wave hits New York churches

From the New York Daily News: Is nothing sacred? Priests at some Bronx churches have...

January 15, 2013

Sweeping new abortion bill in New York: “It defies common sense”

Last week, Cardinal Timothy Dolan raised his objections to proposed abortion legislation in New York....

October 2012

October 14, 2012

State of Grace: two new saints next week will come from New York

From the In My Backyard Desk...an observation, from Lawrence Downes in the New York Times:...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Remembering “the people’s priest” of the Bronx

Every now and then, we receive a blessed reminder of what it means to follow...

September 15, 2012

Ka-ching: New York may sell air rights over St. Patrick’s

Details, from the New York Daily News: The Archdiocese of New York wants to cash...

August 2012

August 07, 2012

On sacred (under) ground: blessing a New York subway tunnel

Details: At 7 on Monday morning, a priest in black robes approached a portal on...

August 06, 2012

An order disperses: “This is the most painful, emotional thing our sisters have ever been through”

The New York Times tells the story of how one community coped with its aging...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Man confesses killing to priest, who calls the cops

Details: Jonathan Smith, on the run from Ohio, was so desperate to come clean that...

July 17, 2012

Meet New York’s oldest working priest, 92-year-old Fr. Gerald Ryan

A tribute to enduring faith and steadfast love, in (of all places) the New York...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Ordination update: 11 new deacons in New York

From Catholic New York: Eleven men arrived at a common junction June 23 at St....

June 13, 2012

One is the loneliest number: meet New York’s only new priest

The New York Times profiles the only priest ordained in the Archdiocese of New York...

June 13, 2012

Report: Alec Baldwin planning Catholic wedding this weekend

And the setting is not only a basilica -- the only one in the Archdiocese...