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The 73rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner featuring honored guests the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Nikki R. Haley as Keynote Speaker and acclaimed comedian Jim Gaffigan as Master of Ceremonies, is scheduled for Thursday, October 18, 2018 at the New York Hilton Midtown. 

While we Catholics believe that a church building is certainly not The Church, we still take the building very seriously.

Monsignor Robert T. Ritchie, Rector of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, will celebrate the 10:15 AM Mass this Sunday, October 14, 2018 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in commemoration of the six new saints to be declared by Pope Francis at the Canonization Mass, this Sunday, in Rome.

On October 4, I was honored to receive the Great Defender of Life Award from the Human Life Foundation. My acceptance address focused on the need to recapture an understanding of the reality and authority of objective moral truth and in particular the natural law.

Archbishop of New York Timothy Cardinal Dolan will be the principal celebrant for the COLUMBUS DAY MASS at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday, October 8, 2018 at 9:30 AM.  Bishop James F. Checchio from the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey will deliver the homily.

Ambassador Nikki R. Haley, the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations, will be the speaker at the 73rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner on Thursday, October 18, 2018 in the Grand Ballroom of New York’s Hilton Hotel Midtown.

The first annual Guardian Mass of the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn will take place at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday, October 1, 2018 at 12pm. The Guardian Mass will honor the men and women of New York City agencies, both local and federal, who work to ensure the safety of the people of New York.

With all the recent publicity about the Church and child sexual abuse, it would be valuable to let people know in detail what efforts the Archdiocese has made to respond to and protect against child sexual abuse.

My column is not usually a place to discuss personnel moves, but I hope you will allow me to give you some background on two decisions that are particularly significant for our archdiocese.

As parish religious education programs open across the Archdiocese, it’s a good time to pray for the directors and coordinators of these programs, who give countless hours that no one sees to their ministry. They are praying themselves. An adaption of the prayer for generosity of St. Ignatius Loyola is a good choice.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, today announced that Judge Barbara S. Jones, former Federal Judge and prosecutor, has accepted his invitation to serve as “Special Counsel and Independent Reviewer” to review, evaluate, and recommend improvements to the Archdiocese of New York’s response to the sexual abuse crisis currently confronting the Church.

Over this difficult summer, I’ve done a lot of listening. Many of you have told me that you are upset, angry, bewildered, and frustrated about the ongoing crisis of sexual abuse in the Church. I am not afraid to say that so am I. This has been a painful period for all Catholics.

Russell Shaw offers "bright spots through the storm" of the current crisis afflicting the Church.

Even with all the ugliness that we've seen in the reports of sexual abuse in the Church, we cannot reject the whole because of the evils in some parts. I still see the beauty of the Church I love, the Bride of Christ.

All summer, with news of the stinging scandals—Theodore McCarrick, the Pennsylvania Grand Jury, the controversy caused by Archbishop Vigano’s controversial letter—one right after the other, I began to wonder about the power of Satan, the prince of darkness. While we Catholics were sad, the Devil was laughing.

The 2018 Fall Season opens this month with an outstanding array of events, including the second installment of JESUITS AND JEDI EPISODE II: THE DOMINICANS STRIKE BACK, on September 29 at 7:00PM in the Loreto Theater. This critically-acclaimed SHEEN CENTER original series presents the dialogue between faith and science through the highly accessible and iconic lens of Star Wars and will feature guest speakers Fr. Humbert Kilanowski, O.P. and Fr. John Marie Devaney, O.P.

Do we really have to be connected to technology every waking moment? The answer is no, especially when it comes to the Lord's Day.

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 His sorrowful mother at the foot of the cross, to His burial in a donated sepulcher—is in fourteen steps. I love that devotion, especially on Fridays and during Lent.

Recent revelations and allegations relating to the sex abuse crisis have created a great deal of anger, concern, and confusion. The most important thing we can do is to speak the truth and seek the truth.

The nominee to the Supreme Court has called Roe v. Wade "settled law". But such an unjust law can never be considered "settled", and it is deeply troubling that the nominee is indicating that he would uphold it.