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Last Saturday, I accompanied my wife to the Funeral Mass of her 87-year-old uncle at a parish church in Garfield, N.J., not an uncommon experience for us these days as the older generation in our …
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By JOHN WOODS
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12/5/18
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When the phone call came from one of the organizers of “Care for Creation: Hearing Earth’s Cry and Responding With Hope,” asking if Catholic New York would cover the daylong conference, my …
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By JOHN WOODS
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11/7/18
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Each October, for the past half dozen years, I have made a two-day visit to Washington, D.C., to attend a meeting of the CPA-CNS Liaison Committee.
The acronyms represent the Catholic Press …
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By JOHN WOODS
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10/24/18
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If you are looking to see a good example of how an active and vibrant parish functions on Sunday mornings, you should visit …
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By JOHN WOODS
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10/10/18
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When I received the email about last week’s America Media program on “Pope Francis: The Foundations of His Papacy,” I found it easy to say yes. After all, the Sept.
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/27/18
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A palpable sense of energy and activity pervaded St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie last Saturday morning. Dr. Scott Hahn,…
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/12/18
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The unrelenting news cycle has not been kind to the Church this summer, starting with the sex abuse allegations …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/29/18
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Like many of you, I set aside a book or two to take on vacation. In Cape Cod last week, I read one that brought me so much satisfaction and joy that I wanted to share it with you.
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/16/18
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Count me firmly among those who hope all the “obituaries” written last week about the New York Daily News were extremely premature.
As a reader for many years, I’ve certainly watched the …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/1/18
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Beginning in September, Catholic New York will publish a monthly section of eight to 12 pages in Spanish as part of its regular newspaper edition.
The pullout section is planned to run in the …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/18/18
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Pope Francis this week accepted the resignation of New York Auxiliary Bishop Dominick J. Lagonegro, who most recently has served as episcopal vicar of Orange, Sullivan, Ulster and Rockland …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/4/18
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When Sandra Pou Pulliam first contacted Catholic New York about her 50-year high school reunion, she suggested taking out an advertisement. Colleagues in our advertising department felt she might be …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/21/18
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If you want to learn about a place where the Church and ArchCare, the archdiocesan health care agency, are doing a lot of good these days, listen to this story about a family, a special corps of …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/8/18
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Until a couple of weeks ago, I never had the occasion to return for commencement exercises at my alma mater, St. John’s University, where I am a proud member of the class of 1985. That may seem a …
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JOHN WOODS
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6/7/18
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Father Stephen Norton, the pastor of St. Benedict parish in the Bronx, was preaching a couple of weeks ago on the Sixth Sunday of Easter from John’s Gospel. (“I am the vine, you are the …
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JOHN WOODS
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5/24/18
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The University of Notre Dame sure knows how to pick ’em. Last week, it selected two of the archdiocese’s finest for alumni honors.
Joe Delaney received Notre Dame Alumni Association’s …
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JOHN WOODS
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4/26/18
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One of the facets of employment is attending regular meetings. Some meetings are rather routine, such as the editorial meetings we hold near the start of each two-week production cycle to begin …
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JOHN WOODS
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4/12/18
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The latest Nor’easter of the season could have eclipsed the Momentum Gala that Students for Life of America had planned at Edison Hall in Manhattan. After all, the snow started falling in the …
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JOHN WOODS
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3/29/18
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The Catholic New York staff is very familiar with the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in Manhattan. This issue, in fact, features a Page 4 story about a conference on civic …
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JOHN WOODS
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3/15/18
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James Monti opened his seminar on Eucharistic Adoration at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie by making an admission most novice public speakers would not make. He confessed that his talk was his …
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JOHN WOODS
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3/1/18
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