Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Join fellow young adults for fun, camaraderie and a rousing discussion about the Italian astronomer Galileo and the Catholic Church this Monday, March 25, at Theology-on-Tap NYC.
Theology-on-Tap NYC is an opportunity for young adults to explore issues and topics that relate to the Catholic faith in a fun and casual environment.
Events begin at 7:30pm and end around 9pm.
All talks are held at Connolly’s Bar, 121 West 45th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, 3rd floor.
No need to RSVP!
No admission cost!
We welcome donations of canned goods to help feed hungry New Yorkers through the Feeding our Neighbors campaign!
Just come and grab a seat or a bar stool, but get there early as seats fill up quickly.
Click here for more information.
Need to know what canned goods to donate? Click here for ideas.
Tags: canned goods, Catholic faith, Connolly's Bar, Feeding Our Neighbors campaign, Italian astronomer Galileo, Theology-on-Tap NYC
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Monday, March 18th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Feeding Our Neighbors, an Archdiocesan effort throughout 10 counties to fight hunger, celebrated the tremendous participation of Catholic schools among others during its second annual campaign with an Art Exhibition and Awards Presentation at the New York Catholic Center on East 55th Street in Manhattan on March 13.
Catholic Charities Executive Director Monsignor Kevin Sullivan joined with Dr. Timothy McNiff, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, and Dan Ahouse, Cablevision Area Director of Government Affairs, to welcome participants and announce awards.
“As we celebrate this wonderful transition and election of Pope Francis, we remember that one of his titles is called Pontifex, a word that simply means the builder of bridges,” said Catholic Charities Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan at the event.
“The pope builds bridges,” Msgr. Sullivan continued. “The Catholic Church builds bridges. And Feeding Our Neighbors has built bridges because of the participation of so many.”
Students at local Catholic schools competed in the Feeding Our Neighbor Art Contest. Awardees included Syleste Alexander, a student at St. Teresa School in Staten Island, Omar Reyes, a student at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx and Anna Nicotra, a student at St. Augustine School in Ossining.
High School students also competed in the Cablevision Power to Learn Competition that raised food and funds for hungry New Yorkers. Students representing Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx won the competition. They donated their $6,000 award to their favorite charities; $5,000 to their high school and $1,000 to Catholic Charities.
The Feeding Our Neighbors Campaign is a response to Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s call that we all do our part to replenish the food pantries and soup kitchens that growing numbers of families and children in our communities rely on to survive. Sponsored by Catholic organizations throughout the Archdiocese of New York and managed by Catholic Charities, contributions to the campaign support local food pantries that serve New Yorkers non-Catholic and Catholic alike. Now in its second year, Feeding Our Neighbors joined forces this season with UJA Federation of New York to fight hunger and need.
- In New York City, approximately 400,000 children rely on soup kitchens and food pantries for food.
- In New York State, more than 3 million people rely on the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP, or Food Stamps) to meet their basic food needs.
Join us in Feeding Our Neighbors.
Click here to do your part to make sure no hungry neighbor is turned away.
- $11.16 helps feed a child for one day.
- $45 helps feed a family of four.
Tags: Anna Nicotra, Archdiocesan Catholic schools, Cablevision, Cablevision Area Director of Government Affairs, Cardinal Hayes High School, Catholic Charities Federation, Dan Ahouse, Dr. Timothy McNiff, Feeding Our Neighbor Art Contest, feeding our neighbors, food pantries, local parishes, Luz Tavarez-Salazar, Omar Reyes, Power to Learn, soup kitchens, St. Augustine School in Ossining, St. Teresa School, Staten Island, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of New York, Syleste Alexander, the Archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, The Bronx, the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO)
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Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Read below the full text of his statement:
Pope Francis
Statement on the Election of Our Holy Father, Pope Francis
March 13th, 2013
On this joyous day, I issued a statement in my role as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on the election of our Holy Father, Pope Francis.
Here is the press release:
STATEMENT ON THE ELECTION OF POPE FRANCIS
CARDINAL TIMOTHY DOLAN OF NEW YORK
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 13, 2013
The election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has taken the name Francis, marks a great milestone in our church. As successor to Peter, our first pope, Pope Francis I stands as the figure of unity for all Catholics wherever they reside.
The bishops of the United States and the people of our 195 dioceses offer prayers for our new leader and promise allegiance to him. Intense prayer from all around the world surrounded the election of Pope Francis.
The bishops of the United States thank God for the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the inspired choice of the College of Cardinals. With joy in our hearts, we declare “Ad Multos Annos!” (For many years!)
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York
President
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Tags: Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, College of Cardinals, ELECTION OF POPE FRANCIS, Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis I, pope of the Catholic Church, Saint Francis of Assisi, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Check out these upcoming events:
Saturday 3/9 and Sunday 3/10 - First Round of Archdiocesan CYO Basketball Playoffs
Ulster County: John A. Coleman Catholic High School. Games begin at 10:00 am on 3/9/13.
Staten Island: CYO-MIV Center. Games start at 9:00 am on Saturday, 3/9/13 and 1:00 pm on Sunday, 3/10/13.
Bronx: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School. 3/10/13. Game times TBA.
Orange County: 3/9/13. Game times TBA.
Saturday 3/16 – 57th Archdiocesan CYO Cheerleading Competition at Fordham University
The competition begins at 10:00 am
Saturday 3/16 - CYO Developmental Track Clinic and Relays at Fordham Preparatory School *
Clinic will be held with four-time Olympic Athlete (and CYO Board Member) Aliann Pompey. Registration begins at 8:45 am
Saturday 3/16 and Sunday 3/17 – Second Round of Archdiocesan CYO Basketball Playoffs
Rockland County: Pearl River High School and Dominican College. 3/16/13. Game times TBA.
Staten Island: CYO-MIV Center. Games start at 9:00 am on Saturday and 1:00 pm on Sunday
Saturday 3/23 - Archdiocesan CYO Basketball Championships
Held at the CYO-MIV Center and St. Joseph by the Sea High School in Staten Island.
Games at the CYO-MIV Center start at 9:00 am.
Games at St. Joseph by the Sea High School start at 11:00 am
Events are held for existing players on existing teams EXCEPT for the Track Meet/Clinic on 3/16.
*The track meet/clinic welcome athletes of all experience levels, with the focus strongly placed on education and participation. The event is open to all CYO Teams throughout the Archdiocese of New York, and individuals may register and represent their parish. All age levels and abilities are encouraged to attend.
Need more information? Call Sarah Masterson at 646-794-2062
Would you like to volunteer? Click here.
Tags: 57th Archdiocesan CYO Cheerleading Competition at Fordham University, Aliann Pompey, Bronx, Catholic Youth Organization, CYO Basketball Playoffs, Dominican College, Pearl River High School, Rockland County, Staten Island, track meet, Ulster County
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Sister Josepha
By Alice Kenny
Forty-eight years ago today, helmeted state troopers in Selma, Alabama used billy clubs and fists to beat back silent marchers as they tried to cross the Alabama River along Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Sister Josepha Twomey recalls that day — known forever as Bloody Sunday and memorialized by photographers’ footage broadcast on national network television – and the days surrounding it during her recent interview on JustLove radio.
“There were demonstrations going the entire year and people would gather, mostly men, at Brown Chapel which was right across the street at the big housing project in Selma,” Sr. Josepha tells Msgr. Kevin Sullivan during their radio interview. “They would march to City Hall and if they couldn’t get in they would kneel on the steps and pray and just turn around and head back.”
A member of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester, Sister Josepha worked in the 1960s in the one-story St. Elizabeth School in Selma. This Catholic school, she says, offered 120 black children from nearby housing projects a green-and-white-checked uniformed, educationally sound alternative to a neighborhood public school that had no books.
The Civil Rights fight in Selma, she adds, was about “voter registration and voter rights.” Black Americans made up more than half the population in Selma yet comprised only 2-percent of registered voters. The marchers – nearly six hundred people in all – were protesting for voter rights and against the death of an unarmed man, shot three weeks earlier by a state trooper while trying protect his mother.
“Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge you have a four lane highway and that takes you to somewhere called Lowndes County, which is a single lane,” Sr. Jospha recalls. “That was KKK Country, and that’s where several of the people were killed — killed.”
Listen to her first-person account on JustLove with Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director of Catholic Charities New York, on The Catholic Channel 129, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.
JustLove, aired weekly on Saturday at 10 am EST and Sunday at 5 am EST, features conversations about the church in the world to promote a just and compassionate society.
Tags: Alabama, Alabama River, Black Americans, Bloody Sunday March, Brown Chapel, Civil Rights, Edmund Pettus Bridge, Executive Director of Catholic Charities New York, first-person account, Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, Selma, silent marchers, SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio, Sister Josepha, Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester, Sr. Josepha Twomey, The Catholic Channel 129, voter registration, voter rights
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Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Synchronizing flying Dutchmen’s with back flips and shouts, cheerleaders raised spirits and funds for a good cause at the 2013 Cheerleading Competition held on Saturday, March 2, at the largest youth sporting event staged every year on Staten Island.
This year marked the 57th annual Cheerleading Competition held by Catholic Charities Catholic Youth Organization, CYO, in Staten Island. But in the wake of Hurricane Sandy that destroyed the homes and businesses of families and friends throughout much of this borough, the cheerleaders decided to do something different. Instead of competing, high school cheerleaders performed in a Cheer for Sandy exhibition that donated proceeds to benefit victims of the storm.
Nearly one thousand parents, grandparents and friends filled the stands at the College of Staten Island’s Sports and Recreation Center in Willowbrook.
“This is like the Super Bowl, the World Series for Staten Island,” said Kristine Romano, cheerleading coach with our Lady of Queen Peace.
Elementary-aged cheerleaders held their regular annual competition earlier in the day. Winning teams – including Our Lady Star of the Sea that placed first for both the Elementary Varsity and Deb Regular competitions – then performed their routines with high school cheerleaders during the afternoon Cheer for Sandy performance.
“We try to teach our kids that there is a connection; that it’s not just sports,” said Joe Panepinto, executive director of Staten Island Catholic Charities. “And they’ve been wonderful.”
Click here if you missed the competition but still want to help
Watch the video on NY1.
Read more in the Staten Island Advance.
Tags: Catholic Charities Catholic Youth Organization, Cheer leading Completion, cheerleaders, College of Staten Island’s Sports and Recreation Center, Deb Regular competitions, Elementary Varsity, heer for Sandy exhibition, high school, Hurricane Sandy, Joe Panepinto, Lady of Queen Peace, Our Lady Star of the Sea, Staten Island, Willowbrook
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Mimicking Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Daddy Yankee and more, middle school-aged students took charge of their first ever “Red Carpet” in Washington Heights, an Oscar-inspired event held on February 15 by La Plaza Beacon Afterschool Program. The students – 90 in total – also directed, worked as stage hands and videotaped the program.
La Plaza Beacon is part of Catholic Charities’ Alianza Division. During after-school hours, La Plaza Beacon’s school-based community center transforms a local school into a thriving neighborhood center. It provides a safe, supervised place where youth go for recreation, cultural activities, homework help and tutoring.
“The Red Carpet event was magic,” La Plaza Beacon Director Leonardo Dominguez said. “We gave them technical support and advise; they learned how to put together a huge event like this by themselves.”
Tags: after-school, Catholic Charities Alianza Division, community center, cultural activities, homework help, La Plaza Beacon Afterschool Program, La Plaza Beacon Director Leonardo Dominguez, middle school, neighborhood center, program, recreation, students, tutoring, Washington Heights
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Standing at the altar of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church before a life-size statue of Jesus crucified on the cross, His Excellency Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan celebrated his final mass with Catholic Charities staff and coworkers before leaving later today for Rome. Catholic Charities Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan and 11 fellow concelebrants assisted with the celebration of the Eucharist.
The mass provided the Cardinal with a final time of prayer with members of the Archdiocese of New York before Pope Benedict XVI steps down from the papacy on Thursday. Cardinal Dolan will participate in the conclave of Roman Catholic cardinals to choose the Pope’s successor.
“What a source of consolation it is to be with all of you, people I love very much, people whose work I admire so completely, today before I leave for Rome,” Cardinal Dolan told the hundreds of staff members that packed the church at the Catholic Center on First Avenue and 55th Street in Manhattan.
His sermon combined his well-known wit with gratitude and guidance. Garbed in a magenta robe, the Cardinal joked about his concerns about the “break-a-leg” good wishes he received. He explained the logistics of his upcoming trip. And he called for contrition, repentance, and renewal.
He hopes, he said, to return to New York before the end of March in time for Holy Week.
“To know that you’re going to be with me means a great deal,” he said, “so keep me in your prayers.”
Tags: Catholic Charities Executive Director Msgr. Kevin Sullivan, catholic charities staff, Catholic Church, concelebrants, Eucharist, Holy Week, papacy, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic cardinals, Rome, St. John the Evangelist, the Cardinal, Timothy Cardinal Michael Dolan
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Friday, February 15th, 2013
By Alice Kenny
Hundreds of students and nearly 30 colleges and universities participated last week in the second-annual college fair hosted by Catholic Charities’ Alianza Division in collaboration with the High School for Media and Communications.
The event, held on the School for Media and Communications’ campus in Washington Heights, promoted Catholic Charities’ Alianza Division’s mission to help children, youth and families break the cycle of poverty and fulfill their potential as members of the global community.
The college fair was important, said Elizabeth Payero, Program Coordinator for the Division’s High School for Media and Communications, because it gave students throughout the campus the opportunity to gather information needed to make informed decisions about which schools they should focus on and where they should apply.
Representatives from numerous colleges – including Ivy League schools such as Harvard – along with CUNY’s, SUNY’s, UConn, the University of Bridgeport and private universities attended the fair.
Many students applied at the fair for coveted college positions. The College of St. Rose accepted seven students on the spot.
“Participating in the college fair allowed me to open my mind to new dreams,” said high school junior Lisandy Rodriguez.
Tags: Alianza Division, Catholic Charities, children, college fair, College of St. Rose, colleges, CUNY, Elizabeth Payero, families, High School for Media and Communications, Lisandy Rodriguez, SUNY, the University of Bridgeport, UConn, universities, youth
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Monday, February 11th, 2013
Read below the full text of his statement released from the Vatican on February 11, 2013.
Dear Brothers,
I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.
Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.”
BENEDICTUS PP XVI
Tags: Bishop of Rome, Church, Pope Benedict XVI, Resignation, Statement, Successor of Saint Peter, Supreme Pontiff, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, Vatican
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