Lord

The heart of the Christian community is our Triune Lord: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Geography, history, and numbers are not the heart, but probably I will type mostly on these topics. As the internet already provides many encouraging spiritual guides and discouraging contentious forums, I intend to offer neither.
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Monday, December 12, 2022

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.

Saturday, December 3, 2022

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.

Monday, May 23, 2022

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.

Wednesday, May 4, 2022

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.

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Assignment of pastors, effective 6.29.2022

 The page listing assignments of new or renewed pastors is linked HERE.

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There are few changes in Nassau County.  At St. Thomas the Apostle, West Hempstead, Msgr. Francis Maniscalco will retire, and Fr. Anthony Stanganelli will move from St. Brigid to St. Thomas. The new pastor of St. Brigid will be Fr. John Sureau from Center Moriches.

At St. Christopher, Baldwin, Fr. Johnny Mendonca, administrator, becomes pastor.

Fr. Malcolm Burns at Corpus Christi is appointed to a second term.

Msgr. Francis Caldwell at CurĂ© d'Ars is appointed to a second term.

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A few days later, more Nassau changes were announced, also effective June 29, 2022.

Fr. Kevin Dillon from Sea Cliff to Carle Place as pastor.

Canon Regular Josef Norys from Glen Cove to St. Boniface the Martyr, Sea Cliff, as pastor.

Friday, March 11, 2022

R-1 visas and priests

The link below concerns the situation with foreign priests employed in the diocese of Little Rock. Although the link goes to the reliable website CruxNow, it originates from the likewise reliable official Catholic News Service.

Link Thirteen Priests in Arkansas face uncertainty over their immigration status.

The article is an excellent summary of the immigration status of many overseas priests who help in our parishes. I value the spiritual work of these priests, and I do not devalue them as mere externs or curates. However, because the topic is seldom explained by parish or Rockville Centre, I found this article illuminating. 

There are other angles, such as incardination and excardination. I suspect that, in practice, incardination (belonging to a diocese) hereabouts requires U. S. citizenship, so the "extern" remains subject to the bishop in his home diocese. 

Comparison of Catholics per priest in sending dioceses vs. the Rockville Centre ratio (1 priest for 3,387 Catholics) can be researched at catholic-hierarchy.org  The sending diocese may have a surplus of priests (as I found one in India, and one in Poland) or may need the priest more than RVC needs him.

The history page at drvc.org/history is about three years stale, but it states that the diocese had 392 priests in active ministry, 223 diocesan, 107 externs and 62 religious.