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The Administrative State -- all those regulatory agencies that affect our lives in so many ways -- poses a serious threat to life and religious liberty, often in ways that are hard to see and even harder to resist.

A blessed Advent Season! We all know that these four weeks (less this year) of Advent offer the invitation to prepare for the coming of Christ.

Last Sunday, Pope Francis paid a visit to the town in Italy where his namesake, Francis of Assisi began a tradition that endures to this day. He used the occasion to deliver a very special letter for us.

The GOSPEL OF JOHN is the theatrical centerpiece of NEW YORK’S CHRISTMAS SEASON, featuring a towering performance by award-winning Broadway actor KEN JENNINGS (Sweeney Todd, Grand Hotel, Side Show) in a production that weds prayer and theater in a profoundly intimate retelling of the life of Christ at THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE. True to the scriptural text and masterfully performed in a slightly abbreviated format, Ken Jennings brings THE GOSPEL OF JOHN to life through the deeply personal gaze of the Beloved Disciple.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York will host an Interfaith Thanksgiving Prayer Service with the Commission of Religious Leaders and the interfaith communities of New York at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 9:30 AM. 

With all the terrible news around, it’s hard to find anything for which one can be grateful this Thanksgiving. However, there’s a lot to be grateful for…if we take the time to look in the right way.

One of the hardest challenges of being a Catholic is to submit our will and minds to God, and to submit to His pastors, particularly the bishops and the Holy Father.

It’s the first question we ask each other these days of November:“Where will you be for Thanksgiving?”

Pardon me, but I’m a little bit nervous. Next week I’m being called into the principal’s office! Pardon me, but I’m a little bit nervous. Next week I’m being called into the principal’s office!

Well-intentioned efforts to pass federal restrictions on abortion run afoul of the principles of federalism, and risk giving the green light to radical pro-abortion laws.

Today, Russell Moore in the Wall Street Journal (paywall) comments on the end of discrimination against Christian adoption services.

Catechists are not always the most visible people in the parish. However, the service they perform, the intensive training they undergo, and the time they give to educating our children in the Faith are deserving of the everyone's gratitude.

THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE in partnership with HUMAN LIFE REVIEW and THE NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE present the groundbreaking short documentary film, I LIVED ON PARKER AVENUE, on Monday, November 4, 2019, at 7:00 PM in the Loreto Theater.

Whatsoever you do for one of these least brothers of mine, you do for me.”

The seventh annual New York Catholic Youth Day is taking place on Saturday, October 19 at the Westchester County Center located at 198 Central Avenue in White Plains, New York. Eleven hundred young people ages 13 to 17 will gather for a day of inspiration, fellowship, service, and prayer. The event will include a Mass celebrated by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York at 11 AM in honor of the archdiocese’s largest annual youth gathering.

Please be advised that the deadline for press credential submissions for the 74th annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner has been extended to Tuesday, October 15 at 12PM.

Pope Francis has appointed Monsignor Gerardo Colacicco and Monsignor Edmund Whalen to serve as Auxiliary Bishops of the Archdiocese of New York. The appointments were announced by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.

Two dates last week are deserving of attention. Last Saturday, October 5, was the 140th anniversary of the dedication of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Fourteen decades as “America’s Home Parish!”

October 4, 2019 (New York) THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT & CULTURE, in partnership with NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE, inaugurates VIRTUE IN AMERICA: HOPE on Monday, October 7 at 7 pm in The Sheen Center’s Black Box Theater.

Why is it that Catholics carry Rosary beads? Superstition? Hardly. It’s the Rosary prayer itself, that simple prayer that gets us through when life becomes too complicated.