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Shortly after the New Year, I took a personal weekend and flew to Ireland.  While I always cherish a visit to the Emerald Isle, this was not really a “vacation” and I certainly wasn’t there for the weather! No, what caused me to cross the Atlantic was something much more meaningful: the opportunity to visit, however briefly, with Sister Bosco and several of the other Mercy Sisters who taught me at Holy Infant parish school in my hometown of Ballwin, Missouri. It was they who, along with my Mom, Dad, and grandparents, nurtured my faith, inspired my vocation, gave me a first-rate education…and instilled in me a profound appreciation and love for Catholic schools.

The recent horrific murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child revealed a fatal flaw in the new radical abortion law -- there is no way to prosecute someone for deliberately attacking an unborn child. There is no justice for the unborn here in New York.

Today, with a home field advantage in the New York Times, Governor Cuomo linked me with the “religious right.”

We continue to hear falsehoods about the new radical abortion law. The reality is that late-term abortions are not rare, and this law permits them up until the moment of birth for any reason and even allows babies born alive to be killed by neglect.

New York, NY - The Office of Black Ministry of the Archdiocese of New York will host the Annual Black History Month Mass and observance of the National Day of Prayer for the African American and African Family on Sunday, February 3, 2019 at 2PM in St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

It’s been a rough time for us these recent days in Albany.

There has been lots of disinformation about the provisions of the new abortion expansion law from public officials and advocates. But a walk through the actual terms of the bill shows that it is indeed extremely radical, permitting abortion for any reason until birth, guaranteeing a dead baby even if she is accidentally born alive, and permitting non-doctors to do surgical abortions.

We pray that the passage of the Child Victims Act brings some measure of healing to all survivors by offering them a path of recourse and reconciliation. | Oramos para que la aprobación de la Ley de Víctimas Infantiles ofrezca cierto grado de sanación a todos los sobrevivientes, ofreciéndoles un camino de apoyo y reconciliación.

The passage of the abortion expansion bill was a terrible defeat. But the fight to create a Culture of Life continues to go on. We will never give in to the Culture of Death.

New York, NY - The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture presents “Finding My Father’s Auschwitz Files” in commemoration of International Holocaust Day of Remembrance, this Sunday, January 27, 2019 at 3PM in the Loreto Theater. Based on Dr. Allen Hershkowitz’s indelible memoir recounting the search and retrieval of his father’s lost years at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, this event invites audiences on the intimate journey undertaken by Dr. Hershkowitz as he charted his father’s footsteps.

The following is a statement of the New York State Catholic Conference on the passage and signing of the Reproductive Health Act.

January always seems a bit dreary, doesn’t it? The Christmas tree and wreath are out of the house and on their way to recycling. The Nativity set has been packed up and returned to the attic, along with all the other decorations of the season. On the surface, it would appear that Christmas is “done and dusted” for another year. Well, actually, it isn’t.

The so-called Reproductive Health Act (RHA) will expand abortion under the pretenses of choice and progress, which, in fact, it will do little to enhance. At the same time, this legislation threatens to rupture the communion between the Catholic faith and those who support the RHA even while professing to follow the Church, something that troubles me greatly as a pastor.

Institutional Commodity Services (ICS) seeks proposals for warehousing and transportation of USDA and other foods to Catholics schools in Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island and Westchester. Commercial distributors and contractors with capacity to manage, store and deliver refrigerated, frozen and dry foods are invited to bid.

This morning, I had a chance to salute a towering prophet in our beloved nation’s pursuit of the civil rights of the baby in the womb, John Cardinal O’Connor, who remains ever-young and timeless in so many souls, especially for his daring pro-life witness.

We New Yorkers pride ourselves on being “progressive.”

Words are insufficient to describe the profound sadness we feel at the contemplated passage of New York State’s new proposed abortion policy. We mourn the unborn infants who will lose their lives, and the many mothers and fathers who will suffer remorse and heartbreak as a result.

His Eminence, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, has announced the formation of a search committee to begin the process of naming a new Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of New York.

With the beginning of the new session of the New York State Legislature, we are now on the verge of having the most radical and extreme abortion law in the United States, if not the world.

This legislation was recently introduced and is being fast-tracked for legislative votes. Despite how it is framed by proponents, this bill is not a simple update of New York’s laws. It is an extreme expansion of current state abortion policy.