This is the column I hoped I would never have to write. As I sit here on Tuesday morning, our final deadline day, my assignment is to close up shop at Catholic New York, my workplace of the past 27 …
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By JOHN WOODS
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11/16/22
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The visit by Staten Island Borough President Vito J. Fossella to Blessed Sacrament School was rather remarkable, both for what he said and for what he did, at the Oct. 24 press briefing. Cardinal …
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By JOHN WOODS
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11/2/22
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The Catholic New York office at the New York Catholic Center is a short walk from the Center for Migration Studies of New York on East 60th Street near the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge. I have not made …
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By JOHN WOODS
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10/19/22
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Two days before the beginning of the fall 40 Days for Life campaign on Sept. 28, Auxiliary Bishop Peter Byrne …
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By JOHN WOODS
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10/5/22
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My visits to St. John the Divine Cathedral on Manhattan’s Upper West Side have been few. A recent trip, on Sept. 8, will stay with me for some time …
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/21/22
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Principal Tom Hamilton of St. Mary’s School in Fishkill sounded ready for the opening day of school even before the Labor Day weekend began.
Hamilton, who’s embarking on his fourth year as …
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By JOHN WOODS
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9/7/22
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Advertising has rightfully played an important role in Catholic New York’s operations from the beginning. A wall in my office at the New York …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/24/22
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Father Gregoire Fluet said the best way to fulfill his responsibilities as chaplain at Mount St. Mary College is to go …
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By JOHN WOODS
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8/10/22
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You only have to follow the news to see the devastating effects of the persecution of Christians …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/27/22
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The recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/13/22
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The recent Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the question of abortion to individual states. A good number already have or …
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By JOHN WOODS
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7/13/22
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Fra’ John T. Dunlap, who was sworn in this month as lieutenant of the grand master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, is a …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/29/22
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This time every year, the Archdiocese of New York honors vowed men and women who have given their lives in service to the …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/15/22
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The religious sisters from six communities now living in retirement at Marian Woods in Hartsdale offer a unique brand of prayerful service to each other and those they encounter.
Cardinal Dolan …
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By JOHN WOODS
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6/1/22
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The morning the impending closure of the domestic bureaus of Catholic News Service was announced May 4 began like many others over the years. I had received an email from CNS staffer Carol Zimmermann …
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By JOHN WOODS
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5/18/22
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Father George Sears, the director of vocations for the archdiocese, said the new regional approach to priestly vocations …
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By JOHN WOODS
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5/4/22
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Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia …
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By JOHN WOODS
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4/20/22
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With Lent turning toward Holy Week and Easter, this is a time of year many people like to take up some spiritual reading. I would like to suggest “On Second Thoughts: A Book of Stories” by Father …
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By JOHN WOODS
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4/6/22
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The war in Ukraine, which started a week before Lent began, is very much on everybody’s minds, whether you live in New York, Poland or Argentina. In our interconnected world, it becomes …
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By JOHN WOODS
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3/23/22
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Other than their common Mass of ordination to the episcopacy March 1, Auxiliary Bishop John Bonnici and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Espaillat also shared a similar roadmap to the priesthood a dozen years …
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By JOHN WOODS
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3/9/22
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