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.

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 Curé 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.