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Last weekend’s newspapers, and reports on TV and radio, understandably had a lot on dads, since Sunday was Fathers’ Day.
Was it just me, though, or were there more stories than usual …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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6/21/18
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St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta used to observe that the saddest person is the one without gratitude, the one who feels he/she has nothing for which to thank God or somebody else.
We Americans would …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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11/23/17
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Like most of you, I enjoy it when I hear or read an observation that I’ve held for a long time.
That’s why I nodded in agreement as I read an enlightening article by Erika Andersen in …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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7/31/19
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A blessed New Year!
One of the many gifts the Lord lavishes upon us, so obvious at the start of a fresh calendar, is the chance to begin all over again.
“Regrets? We’ve had a few, …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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1/5/17
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Son momentos difíciles, mi buena gente, una Semana Santa “incorporada,” ya que todos estamos cerca a Jesús en Su hora de agonía y muerte en la cruz.
Aquellos …
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Por CARDINAL TIMOTHY M. DOLAN
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4/8/20
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This glorious Easter Season often presents to us daily Mass readings from the Acts of the Apostles, that inspired book of the New Testament, written by St. Luke, often called, “The Fifth …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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4/27/17
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Bendiciones Navideñas, querida familia de la Iglesia en la Arquidiócesis de Nueva York!
A menudo me preguntan qué considero como puntales, o lecciones, de esta temporada …
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Por CARDINAL TIMOTHY M. DOLAN
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12/18/19
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Dear friends in the Lord:
As we begin this Lenten Season, in which we reflect on the passion, death, and resurrection of Our Lord, I offer this reflection on our own deaths and resurrections, and …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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3/2/17
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So many of our priests, deacons, women and men religious—as well as married couples—are celebrating anniversaries these happy weeks. Congratulations!
Just last Sunday I celebrated my …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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6/23/16
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While we Catholics believe that a church building is certainly not The Church, we still take the building very seriously.
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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10/10/18
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Yes, I know that the classical, popular devotion, the Via Crucis—reverently accompanying Jesus on His tortured journey from unjust condemnation by Pontius Pilate, to His repose in the arms of …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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8/29/18
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Among other titles—the month of the Holy Rosary, the month of the missions—the thirty-one days beginning Tuesday are Respect Life Month.
To protect the dignity of the human person, and …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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9/25/19
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Entre otros títulos, el mes del Santo Rosario, el mes de las misiones, los treinta y un días que comienza el martes son parte del Mes de Respeto a la Vida.
Proteger la dignidad de la persona …
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Por CARDINAL TIMOTHY M. DOLAN
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9/25/19
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Pardon me, but I’m a little bit nervous.
Next week I’m being called into the principal’s office!
Sunday, along with the bishops of New York State, I’ll be in Rome for …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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11/6/19
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Sí, sé que la devoción clásica popular del Vía Crucis, de acompañar con reverencia a Jesús en su tortuoso viaje desde su injusta condena por parte de …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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8/29/18
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The passing of George H.W. Bush, our forty-first president, has moved me. I’ve always admired him. While working at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, I got to meet him a number of times, …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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12/5/18
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You will not be surprised, given my girth, that I enjoy conversations with good cooks. While I’m hardly a chef myself—I can make a cup of tea or a piece of toast—I sure enjoy …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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8/17/17
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Is nothing less than a miracle...
Saturday night I offered Mass for the new parish of St. John Bosco in Port Chester. Sure, every Mass is a miracle, but that’s not the one I want to write …
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CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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3/15/18
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Do you like standing in line? I guess that depends on what we’re standing in line for!
I don’t mind standing in line for a Shake Shack hamburger (except on the Fridays of Lent!), or to …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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3/13/19
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Remember!
A loaded word in our vocabulary, one laden with substance.
Chatting with people my own age—I just turned seventy—and beyond, I often hear them whisper with apprehension, …
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By CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN
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2/26/20
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