Test for Admission to a Catholic High School

The Archdiocese of New York (seven counties), the Diocese of Brooklyn (two counties), and the Diocese of Rockville Centre (two counties) generally require the test offered on the website https://tachsinfo.com/

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The test is taken by computer at home. It costs $71. The student selects three high schools to which the testing company will send results. The test is apparently scheduled for early November, 2023. There must be some way the downloaded program knows that is is the registered eighth grade student and not a learned grandma answering the test questions.

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The abbreviated name for the test is TACHS. Much more information is at https://tachsinfo.com/

Assignments in 2023, mostly June

The link below is to a composite list of 2023 priestly assignments. Note that the sole assignment of a new pastor in Nassau County is Rev. Leo Song to St. Raphael, East Meadow. Other new pastors are in Suffolk County.

Link HERE.

New Catholic Relief Services donation address

Mailed donations to Catholic Relief Services now go to a processing firm in the small city of Harlan, Iowa. Instead of Baltimore, the donation address is now Catholic Relief Services, Post Office Box 5202, Harlan, Iowa 51593-0702. This is a  Hearst-owned corporation that handles incoming payments for many magazines and non-profit organizations.

Guadalupe, in Spain and Mexico

At the end of the 12th century in Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain, a man found a hidden statue of Mary.

Please see the Wikipedia article linked HERE.

Two hundred years later, Juan Diego met Our Lady at Tepeyac, now part of Mexico City. Her feast  is December 12th.

The loss of Catholic print media

 The Pilot is the official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, published from offices in Braintree, Massachusetts. On December 3, 2022, it published an article, "Loss of print media seen as posing challenges to U. S. church communications."  The link to the thirty-paragraph analysis is HERE.

Synod Questions 2022

 In case you haven't noticed the banner atop the diocesan webpage, "Let your voice be heard. Fill out the DRVC Synod survey." Link HERE.

Catholic News Service will cut back

 I read this announcement with regret. The Catholic News Service will close its Washington bureau and its distribution of domestic news, while maintaining news from the Vatican. I fear this will leave the domestic Catholic news market open to the biased reporters on various media.