On Monday, May 21 at 7:00 PM, come to the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street, at the corner of Elizabeth Street) for Inside “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," a conversation with curators about the largest exhibition in the history of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring a significant loan of papal robes and accessories from the Vatican. Tickets are $20 and available at SheenCenter.org, by phone at (212) 925-2812, or in-person at The Sheen Center box office.

The Alfie Evans case demonstrates the lethal effect of laws that take away the rights of parents to determine the health care of their children, coupled with a denial of the sanctity of every life and confusion over the obligation to provide basic care to those who are sick. We are dangerously close in the US to going down the same path.

You may remember the somber event that occurred in the days prior to Holy Week, when Firefighter Michael Davidson died in the line of duty battling a blaze in Harlem. The entire city grieved, and embraced his young wife and four kids.

The horrifying case of Alfie Evans, the little boy in the UK who is going to be killed by his doctors because he is disabled. Courts in the UK have heartlessly rejected his parents' attempts to bring Alfie to another hospital -- including one near the Vatican. We are in a sick society when a court can decide that a person is better off dead.

The building of a great parish community can begin with a simple hello and a handshake.

In Pope Francis' new document, he urges us to give a "clear, firm and passionate" defense of unborn people, but also to be sure to pay attention to the situation of migrants and all other threats to human life and dignity. All human lives are equally sacred in the eyes of God.

Advocates for physician-assisted suicide are never satisfied and will never give up trying to legalize and normalize not just assisted suicide but also euthanasia -- a polite name for murder by doctor. Their latest effort is an advanced directive that would doom patients with dementia to death by starvation and dehydration.

Continued blessings this Easter season!

The Magis Theatre Company’s “Logos Project” and The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture bring to the stage, In Love with Thee: Mystical Poetry in Performance from the Jewish, Christian and Sufi Traditions, an unprecedented encounter of diverse faith traditions through the performance of sacred poetry on Monday, April 16 at 7:30 PM. 

It seems to be generally accepted that the president has the royal prerogative to take the United States into war without approval from anyone else -- a notion incompatible with American constitutional law. The President's new threat of war against Syria and Russia violates US and international law, and cannot be justified under Catholic "just war" doctrine.

The Governor wasn't able to get his abortion expansion proposal through the Legislature in the budget. But he hasn't given up on his crusade to give New York even more radically liberal abortion laws. We won't stop opposing him.

Director of the Vatican Observatory and American Jesuit, Br. Guy Consolmagno, S.J. will take the stage, on Tuesday, April 10 at 7 PM in The Sheen Center’s Loreto Theater, for an uncharted journey into science fictions’ most enduring archetypes in popular culture.  In the age of technological innovation and artificial intelligence, reality is beginning to mirror science fiction more than ever previously imagined; Brother Consolmagno will be joined by Fordham University’s Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics, Dr. Charles Camosy in exploring this compelling trend and its ethical implications. The evening’s talk will touch upon familiar spiritual themes in the popular imagination, opening a dialogue between faith and science, their overlapping cosmologies, and shared metaphors. 

In commemoration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the bells of St. Patrick’s Cathedral will toll 39 times this evening at 7:05 PM., marking the 50th anniversary of his assassination.

Spring seems to be fighting to arrive! Winter still seems to have us in its death grip.

A visit to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is a life-changing experience. But so is a visit to your parish church.

With all of New York, the Archdiocese of New York joins in mourning the passing of our beloved Rusty Staub.  Known as a great baseball player and teammate, Rusty was also a great philanthropist, who did so much to support Catholic Charities, Catholic schools, and our Catholic food pantries and food distribution programs.  Whenever we were together, he would say, “Tell me what you need, Cardinal” and he would always come through. 

Click here for the schedule of the Easter Triduum at Saint Patrick's Cathedral.

The following is the homily Cardinal Dolan delivered at the Funeral Mass for Lt. Michael Davidson in St. Patrick’s Cathedral March 27.

Recently, I had the honor of participating a symposium at Albany Law School entitled "Reconsidering the Right to Die: The Debate over Assisted Suicide". My presentation, which was jointly written by me and my associate Alexis Carra, is a useful summary of the legal case against assisted suicide.

Archbishop of New York Timothy Cardinal Dolan will visit the Sing Sing Correctional Facility on Monday, March 26 at 10:00 AM to commemorate the start of Holy Week and Easter with a Mass for the staff and inmates.