CNY
Editorial Report 1999CNY
Editorial Report 1999
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A Mother And Child |
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"It happened on St. Valentine's Day. On that feast special to those who love, two of them--Maria and... |
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Six Men |
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"It happened in the small city of Worcester, Mass., but it was an international tragedy because of the... |
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Comes The Dawn |
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"We're about to close a century that has been described as the most violent yet. There has been an... |
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Touching 'Tiny Hands' |
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"Her professional experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner in medically underserved areas of Orange... |
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The Cardinal In the News |
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This editorial appeared in the Daily News Nov. 17. It is reprinted in my space in CNY in order... |
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A Gift God Gives |
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"I learned about Amy because last month she was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Mount St. Dominic Academy... |
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Tears For A Baby |
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"It's difficult to put the tragedy out of one's mind, even with the beauty that surrounded it at the... |
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Fathers And Sons |
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"Wasn't it great! The jubilation of the throngs on Broadway--New Yorkers and those who wish they were, Yankee... |
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The Family Gathers |
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"They arrived quietly, one by one or in small groups, at the gray stone house on Madison Avenue. ...the cardinal had invited them to... |
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Sorrow's Echoes |
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"Three years after a peace settlement ended a brutal 30-year civil war in Guatemala, the country is... |
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All About Lilith |
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"The name intrigued me: the Lilith Fair. It has such a quaint, medieval ring to it. It conjures up cobblestone... |
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The Big Scam |
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"Just about all that the general public in New York knows about the young man who made the image that... |
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'You Have Suffered...' |
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"She had the abortion a long time ago. Her mother had died recently; her brother was... |
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Bringing Forth Their Gifts |
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"In this fast-paced world in which there is hardly enough time to accomplish the tasks that we have to... |
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East Timor Connection |
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"The Gomez family of Bronxville worries. But they are proud of their son. They taught their four children to 'reach out for... |
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The Cardinal as Teacher |
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"Those close to the cardinal speak of his total peace these days. All through the battery of tests, facing... |
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Good News In the City |
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"Out of towners tend to think of New York--to them, that's Manhattan--as a huge, impersonal place... |
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'The City Struggle' |
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"It was June 1974, and they had come from all over the country, about 200 priests, to a conference... |
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'A Busy Guy...' |
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"At George Sheehan's Funeral Mass a letter to his wife from Cardinal O'Connor was read. He wrote of... |
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A Reason To Celebrate |
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"The party at my friend Kevin's house this past weekend was special. It was to mark his... |
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The Man On The Bridge |
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"It was an eerie hour and 40 minutes. Stuck there, you had to think about how badly you needed the time... |
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Two Fathers, Two Sons |
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"When Detective Steven McDonald, New York's Irish-American hero cop, moved up the aisle of St. Patrick's... |
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To Lose A Son... |
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"Twenty-one years ago, a Manhattan couple lost a wonderful son who was going to be a priest. Hugh McEvoy... |
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A Sad Parting For Newlyweds |
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"Though it did involve a trip, Jacqueline and Eric Haaland's first wedding anniversary didn't work out... |
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Examining The Exam |
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"In view of the fact that I have been successfully employed in my chosen field since my college... |
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He Was Chosen |
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"Bishops are successors to the Apostles, and now James F. McCarthy, priest of New York, has been called... |
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Long Labor, Lot of Love |
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"Patrice and Michael Kainrath are the parents of twins. Erin Jane was born last Nov. 3. Lauren Louise... |
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The Beautiful Children |
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"It's only about two years since Teresa saw the black children playing in the park, but she's learned... |
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Good Place To Stay |
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"To hear Father Joseph J. O'Shea tell it, he has never had 'ambitions for higher places.' No sir, in 57 years... |
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Mother Matilde And the Major |
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Mother Matilde, who recently celebrated her 90th birthday at the convent of the Sisters of St. John the... |
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Hil and Bill Go Camping |
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"The secret is out, right there on Page One of The New York Times, where Clinton secrets belong. The president and... |
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'Let's Heal Together' |
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"Suppose they gave a war and nobody came. I thought of that old slogan of the peace movement. When Cardinal O'Connor... |
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A Sense Of Wonder |
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"It was the day Msgr. James F. McCarthy's appointment as a bishop was announced. People from New York to Rome... |
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Going Gently |
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"Many people ask me regularly how my mother is doing. I say, 'She's going gently into the night.' She is bedridden... |
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Raise Them Gently... |
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On April 2, 1998, this column appeared in response to the tragic school shooting in Jonesboro, Ark. Today, sadly, the... |
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One Nation Under God |
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"My family and I marked Immigrant Sunday, April 18, at Mass in Pilgrim Hall Chapel, appropriately named, on... |
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Not So Scary After All |
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"To the everyday Catholic in the pew, the word 'evangelization' has scary overtones. This is not my opinion, although... |
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Home Of The Brave |
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There's a picture of me, bundled in an Irish sweater with a kerchief on my head and the... |
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Holy Week, A.D. 1999 |
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"Now it is Holy Week, when we remember that the Prince of Peace was brutally murdered by soldiers as his... |
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Standing Tall in Defeat |
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"More than most, I followed the fortunes of the St. John's University basketball team in the NCAA playoffs over... |
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With a Song In Her Heart |
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"This is about Hildegarde Pollack, 'a woman who was always the living sign of the Christian who ministers to... |
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Celebration, And Sadness |
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"Our Lady of Angels parish in the Bronx had quite a party to begin its 75th anniversary festivities... |
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'Good Things From Tragedy' |
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"When a nurse put a finger on the tracheal tube in Police Officer Daniel O'Sullivan's throat and said, 'Daniel, say hello,' and... |
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A Family Divided |
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"The baggage of racism is heavy with hurts and fears. An examination of conscience by all of us would not... |
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A New York Tragedy |
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"A young life has been ended in a hail of 41 bullets, and a fresh new wound is bleeding in the city. We don't... |
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Our Lenten Practice |
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"The annual season of preparation for the Church celebration of Christ's death and resurrection begins on Ash... |
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They Don't Get It |
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"Gov. Mel Carnahan said he commuted the sentence of Darrell Mease to life imprisonment without parole as... |
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'Hope...And Life' |
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"As 100,000 citizens of the United States marched in the nation's capital in a peaceful protest against... |
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Tragedy Repeated |
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"The man charged with the murder of Kendra Webdale is a young schizophrenic who said in explaining... |
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A Child Of Grace |
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"Patricia and Ralph Webdale were into a lot of things at the parish in upstate Tonawanda in the .... |
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The Strength And Courage |
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"They came to bury Mike McAlary and to praise him at his Funeral Mass in Mary Immaculate Church in Bellport... |
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