Thursday, August 25, 2016

New York Daily News Back to School Section

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About August 22, 2016, the New York Daily News included a special advertising section for Back to School vendors.  Interspersed are laudator...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Book: Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?

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Recently, I saw a reference to a 2005 book by Bernadette McCauley, Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick? Roman Catholic Sisters and the Developme...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Holy Rosary / Nativity of Our Blessed Lady

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Above is Holy Rosary church on Eastchester Road near Gun Hill Road. See pages 484 and 486 in Thomas Shelley's book for the 1925 ...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

St. John - Visitation

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On August 1, 2015, the Archbishop of New York merged two Kingsbridge parishes, St. John and Visitation.  The church of St. John and its scho...
Sunday, November 1, 2015

St. Frances of Rome and 3 other churches in Wakefield = one parish in 2015

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The parish of St. Frances of Rome includes four older separate parishes, which can be seen listed on top of the new website.   Please co...
Friday, September 25, 2015

St. Joseph, Bathgate Avenue

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Once again, David Gonzalez has written for the New York Times a magnificent article about Bronx Catholics.  Please see the link HERE . --- ...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Elementary school statistics

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With the recent publication of the 2015 Official Catholic Directory, it is possible to look at some statistics of the Catholic elementary sc...
Monday, July 27, 2015

Pastor and Administrator assignments effective 8.1.2015

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With the closure and merging of many parishes in the Archdiocese of New York, Catholic New York (the archdiocesan newspaper) has published a...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Archdiocesan Archives, photos on Facebook

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This morning, I chanced upon the marvelous collection of photographs shared on Facebook by the Archives of the Archdiocese of New York. The...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Making All Things New

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"Making All Things New" is the banner under which the Archbishop of New York is merging some parishes.  For the first official doc...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Facebook, parishes, and schools

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Some parishes and Catholic organizations have active Facebook pages that can be viewed by people, as I, who have not joined Facebook.  In ad...