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2011
September
Catholic News Herald
Place of Peace and Prayer: St. Francis Springs Plans Expansion
Featured: Fr. Louis Canino, OFM
Just six years after opening, St. Francis Springs Prayer Center in Stoneville, N.C., plans to "double its size in response to a growing demand for quiet solitude, deeper connection with God." Since it opened its doors in 2005, the retreat center, directed by Fr. Louis Canino, OFM, has had more than 30,000 visitors.
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The Tablet: The International Catholic Weekly
'Lord, Take Me Where You Want Me to Go'
Featured: Fr. John Felice, OFM
Former Provincial Minister Fr. John Felice, OFM, reflects on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the death of Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM. He writes: "We will never forget the courage, the kindness and the deep-felt bond that held us together as a people during those first months. It is with the eye of history that we need now to consider the wisdom of the courses we have chosen since 9/11 and the impact they have left on our world."
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NPR Morning Edition
Slain Priest: 'Bury His Heart, But Not His Love'
Featured: Fr. Michael Duffy, OFM, and Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM
Fr. Mychal Judge , OFM, chaplain to the New York City Fire Department was a true New York character. Born in Brooklyn, Mychal Judge seemed to know everyone in the city, from the homeless to the mayor. On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Fr. Mychal arrived at the World Trade Center shortly after the first plane hit. And as firefighters and other rescue personnel ran into the North Tower, he went with them. Ten years after Fr. Mychal's death in the second tower, those who knew him best reflect on his life.
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July
The Buffalo News
Three Buffalo Friends Gear Up To Resume '86 Bike Trip Halted by Accident
Featured: Fr. Ronald Pecci, OFM
In 1986, three young friends from Buffalo’s Seneca-Babcock neighborhood set out on an 8,141-mile bicycle trip around the country to raise money for the Babcock Street Boys Club. The trip was brought to a halt when two of the cyclists were struck by a pickup truck in Texas. Twenty-five years later, their former parish priest Fr. Ronald Pecci, OFM, blessed the three cyclists as they prepared to finish the trip once and for all.
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CBS News
World Trade Center Cross Moved to Permanent Home
Featured: Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM
A flatbed truck moved the World Trade Center cross — originally discovered standing upright amongst the rubble of the Twin Towers — from its previous location next to St. Peter’s Church to the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. Before the Ground Zero icon could be moved to its permanent home, Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM, blessed the cross during a ceremony.
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June
The New York Times
For Franciscan Twins, Simple Lives Had Depth
Featured: Br. Adrian Riester, OFM, Br. Julian Riester, OFM, Br. Edward Coughlin, OFM, Br. David Haack, OFM
Dan Barry, an alumnus of St. Bonaventure University, reflects on the simple yet profound lives and deaths of the 92-year-old Riester twins.
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WFLA/Channel 8
Identical Twin Brothers Depart World Together
Featured: Brs. Adrian Riester, OFM, and Julian Riester, OFM; Fr. James Toal, OFM
Born minutes apart, Franciscan brothers Adrian and Julian Riester died 92 years later only 15 hours apart on June 1, 2011. The guardian of the twins' friary in St. Petersburg, Fla., celebrated a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary, Our Lady of Grace Church on June 6.
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The Associated Press
Julian, Adrian Riester, Buffalo-Born Twin Friars, Die On Same Day at Age 92
Featured: Brs. Adrian Riester, OFM, and Julian Riester, OFM
Buffalo-born twin friars, who spent many years serving members of the St. Bonaventure University campus with their carpentry, gardening and driving skills, died hours apart in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital.
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The Buffalo News
Brothers' 92 Years End the Lifelong Way: As Twins
Featured: Br. Adrian Riester, OFM, and Br. Julian Riester, OFM
Friars with ties to St. Bonaventure University died the same day at a St. Petersburgh, Fla., hospital. Those close to them called their June 1 deaths “not surprising at all.”
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May
The Gazette
Edible Garden Teaches Saint Francis International School Students More Than Just Botany
Featured: Fr. Michael Johnson, OFM
The pastor of St. Camillus Church in Silver Spring, Md., offers his expertise to help teach students of the church's partner school, St. Francis International, about gardening.
Principal Tobias Harkleroad says: "We want to provide a whole comprehensive education, and let them experience things along the way."
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The Associated Press
Bin Laden's Death a Tough Subject for the Pulpit
Featured: Fr. Stephen Mimnaugh, OFM
The May 2011 death of Osama bin Laden, a man who was America's face of evil for nearly a decade, left Christians, Jews and Muslims relieved, proud or even jubilant. For their religious leaders, it was sometimes hard to know just what to say about that. A New York City friar is consulted on the topic.
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AmericanCatholic.org
Bin Laden Killing Poses Questions for Moral Debate
Featured: Br. Daniel Horan, OFM
Dating God blog author shares his thoughts on the death of Osama bin Laden. The friar in formation points out that "because we believe in the resurrection, every death should be celebrated."
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The Times Union
Sense of Relief, But Little Joy
Featured: Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, and Fr. Cassian Miles, OFM
In the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, a classmate of Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, chaplain for the Fire Department of New York who died Sept. 11, 2001, shares his thoughts on a Christian reaction. “I think Mychal would have mercy for (bin Laden)," Fr. Cassian told the Albany, N.Y., newspaper.
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April
America
Divided On Torture
Featured: Fr. Kenneth Himes, OFM
A Boston-based friar reflects on how to build a public consensus for the moral treatment of detainees.
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New York Daily News
Rev. Russell Becker on Edge of Three Mile Island, 9/11 and Japan Tragedies
Featured: Fr. Russell Becker, OFM
Pastor of the Franciscan Chapel Center in Tokyo shares about how the friars in Japan have been helping evacuees following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
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March
Independent Mail
Franciscan Friars Bring Flair of Fun and Faith to St. Joseph Catholic Church in Anderson
Featured: Fr. Paul Williams, OFM, and Br. Henry Fulmer, OFM
After moving from St. Martin de Porres Parish in Columbia, S.C., the new friars at St. Joseph Church in Anderson are getting to know a new community.
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Currents
The Bishop and the Breadline
Featured: Fr. Dominic Monti, OFM
On Ash Wednesday, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan took to the sidewalks and visited the St. Francis Breadline to had out meals to hungry New Yorkers and spread a Lenten message.
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St. Petersburg Times
Worshippers Begin the Season of Lent
Featured: Fr. Sean O'Brien, OFM
Members of Sacred Heart Church in Tampa, Fla., began the season of Lent with a midday service. One of the friars based at the parish offered a thoughtful homily on Ash Wednesday.
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February
AmericanCatholic.org
Egypt's 'Peaceful Revolution' an Example for the World
Featured: Fr. Michael Calabria, OFM
A St. Bonaventure University lecturer who has visited Egypt regularly since the early 1980s calls the protests that led to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak "truly significant."
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The News Journal
St. Paul School First Casualty of Settlement
Featured: Fr. Todd Carpenter, OFM
An elementary school with a 125-year history in the Diocese of Wilmington, Del., is forced to close to due declining enrollment and financial challenges.
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January
Catholic Comments Podcast
Spirituality and Social Justice
Featured: Fr. Joseph Nangle, OFM
Franciscan priest and author of Engaged Spirituality: Faith Life in the Heart of the Empire discusses his experience in Latin America and how that experience led him to a deepened sense of the connection between spirituality and social justice.
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Fox 29 Philadelphia
Camden Braces for Cuts to Police Force
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM
St. Anthony of Padua in Camden, N.J., spoke about the parish's unique day of community organizing to celebrate the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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2010
December
Catholic New York
Food and Hope of the St. Francis Breadline
Featured: Frs. Michael Carnevale, OFM, and Jerome Massimino, OFM
The 80-year-old St. Francis Breadline is the focus of John Woods' Editor's Report. He describes the ministry of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Midtown Manhattan as "profoundly Franciscan."
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Boston Herald
Abandoned Stillborn Babies Laid to Rest
Featured: Br. Gary Maciag, OFM
As part of St. Anthony Shrine's Lazarus Program, friars from the Boston ministry center prayed for and honored the deaths of stillborn babies with dignity by providing Masses.
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Watertown Daily Times
Bringing the Mystery of Christ's Birth to Life
Featured: Fr. Francis Pompei, OFM
A group of Franciscan Mystery Players from Clayton, N.Y., are highlighted for their presentation of the Christmas story from a Franciscan perspective.
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Boston Herald
Shrine Work Spiritual Experience for Artist
Featured: Fr. David Convertino, OFM
St. Anthony Shrine's director describes the recent renovation of its chapel, which includes work by Maryland-based painter Gordon Daugherty.
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November
Catholic Star Herald
Local Catholics Join Annual Protest at Fort Benning
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM
Seven members of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Camden, N.J., traveled to Georgia to participate in the annual profest of the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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Boston Herald
'Desperate' Thugs Loot Shrine
Featured: Fr. David Convertino, OFM
St. Anthony Shrine is among a string of Catholic churches burglarized in the Boston area. The shrine's director estimates the thief got away with no more than $20.
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October
The Georgia Bulletin
Theology Thursday a Draw at UGA Catholic Center
Featured: Fr. Thomas Vigliotta, OFM
Programs at the campus ministry of the University of Georgia in Athens are described. The center's friar director says he sees his role as helping students grow into mature Catholics.
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July
The Herald Sun
'The Damage to God's Creation'
Featured: Fr. Steven Patti, OFM
A friar based in Durham, S.C., led an interfaith prayer service at Immaculate Conception Church nearly 80 days after the Gulf oil spill began.
"... Lament, or mourning, is part of the Judeo-Christian tradition," said Fr. Steven Patti, OFM, "We also thought that, as a Franciscan parish, we ought to respond in some way because there is, in the Franciscan tradition, a deep respect for the integrity of creation."
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June
The Monitor
Blessing of the Fleet: Ecumenical Service Celebrates Maritime Community
Featured: Fr. Thomas Conway, OFM
On June 13, more than 300 men, women and children gathered on the docks of the Barnegat Boat Basin for an event that unites people of all faiths for a common purpose — to pray collectively for those who work at sea, those whose lives have been lost at sea, and those who work continually on behalf of the commercial fishing industry. One Holy Name friar joined in prayer with leaders of the Episcopal and Lutheran communities in the area.
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The Catholic Standard
St. Camillus Parish Hosts Prayer Service for Gulf Oil Disaster
Featured: Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, OFM
Parishioners of the Silver Spring, Md., church gathered June 9 to pray, to mourn and to ask God for healing and renewal in the Gulf of Mexico, as the catastrophic oil spill continues to threaten and destroy sea life in the region. Prayers were also offered for the British Petroleum oil rig workers who lost their lives in the April 20 explosion.
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The Catholic Standard
Legacy of St. Camillus School will Help Shape New St. Francis International School
Featured: Fr. Michael Johnson, OFM
For the upcoming 2010-11 school year, St. Camillus School in Silver Spring, Md., and the nearby St. Mark the Evangelist School in Hyattsville are joining together to form the innovative new St. Francis International School. The school, which will be initially located on the St. Camillus campus, will offer a Catholic, standards-based education with a global perspective to reflect both the diverse student population and the need for today's students to have new skills to become leaders in a diverse world.
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NET NY Currents
Friars Helping Fishers
Featured: Fr. Dominic Monti, OFM
In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, HNP's Provincial Vicar gave his perspective on the situation and reminded views that the month of June has been dedicated to prayer and action in response to the disaster.
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May
New York Daily News
Welcome A Mosque Near Sacred Ground: A Jew, Catholic and Muslim say we must support the center
Featured: Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM
In collaboration with a Jew and a Muslim, a New York City-based friar argues for support of a mosque being constructed near the World Trade Center.
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The Anderson Independent
Father Aubrey McNeil of Anderson Has a Heart for the Least of Us
Featured: Fr. Aubrey McNeil, OFM
Marking 30 years as a Franciscan friar and 25 years as a priest in 2010, the pastor of St. Mary of the Angels Church in Anderson S.C., finds fulfillment in praying and caring for those who need him most.
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April
The New York Times
Staff Says Goodbye to St. Vincent's Hospital
Featured: Fr. James O'Connell, OFM
A Holy Name friar celebrated a farewell Mass for the employees of St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, the final Catholic hospital in New York City, which closed its doors April 30, 2010.
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The Catholic Miscellany
Spiritual and Physical Healing is Father Aubrey McNeil's Mission
Featured: Fr. Aubrey McNeil, OFM
“I’m an introvert who enjoys people,” said a friar and Canada-native celebrating 25 years as a priest, who is described by those who know him as warm, funny, inviting and deeply caring.
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Catholic Star Herald
My Wonderful Franciscan Journey
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar
Pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Camden, N.J., shares about his love for God, for the Church and for Franciscan life in the newspaper of the Diocese of Camden (page S3).
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The Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Doctor Named to Obama Bioethical Commission
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
The 54-year-old friar-doctor who moved to Chicago in June 2009 to teach medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago has been appointed to the president's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
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The Rhode Show
Raising the Bar: Vegetarian Chili
Featured: Fr. Frank Sevola, OFM
A Providence, R.I., friar provides a quick, easy and healthy meatless meal for Good Friday while discussing the Poverello Center, a client-choice food program.
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March
The Herald Sun
There is No ‘Christian’ Torture
Featured: Fr. Steven Patti, OFM
As Catholics, can we ever justify torture? One friar from Immaculate Conception Church in Durham, N.C., investigates this question in response to Marc Thiessen’s claim that waterboarding “is not only useful and desirable, but also permitted by the teachings of the Catholic Church” in his new book, Courting Disaster: How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack.
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The Buffalo News
PeacePrints To Expand Housing for Ex-Offenders
Featured: Br. Michael Oberst, OFM
Despite reservations from neighborhood residents, PeacePrints Prison Ministries — a Buffalo nonprofit agency that helps rehabilitate former inmates — is expanding with a new facility for one of its programs.
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January
The Tampa Tribune
Church Has a lot to Celebrate
Featured: Fr. Andrew Reitz, OFM
A look back — and toward the future — of the Florida parish that turned 150 in 2010.
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Commonweal
A New Ecumenism: Is Rome's Anglican Outreach a Step Backward?
Featured: Fr. Russel Murray, OFM
A Washington Theological Union faculty member addresses the Vatican's invitation to Anglicans and its impact on the Catholic Church.
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The Catholic Standard
St. Camillus and St. Mark Parishes Forming St. Francis International School
Featured: Fr. Michael Johnson, OFM
"What do our kids need for the 21st century, and how do we give it to them?" — One of many questions behind the formation of St. Francis International School in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. The pastor of St. Camillus weighs in on the process of combining two elementary schools.
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November
The Economist
Camden Crisis: Ungovernable?
Featured: Br. Gerald Hudson, OFM
One of the friars of St. Anthony Padua Church talks about a run-down building next door to the parish school in the Cramer Hill district. Although the city had boarded it up, vandals routinely break in. It became a den for drugs and prostitution. Though many such buildings have been demolished, Br. Jerry thinks there are just as many now as nearly a decade ago.
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October
St. Petersburg Times
Sacred Heart Bookstore Serves Downtown Tampa
Featured: Fr. Andrew Reitz, OFM
The pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Tampa, Fla., isn't a typical small-business man. He is more interested in souls than in sales and more likely seen wearing his Franciscan habit than a golf shirt. However, for the third time in his 38 years as a priest, he helped launch a business affiliated with his parish.
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Nightline
Celebrity Look-Alike Sperm Donors: A Superficial Service?
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
A Franciscan friar and doctor weighs in on the ethical challenges of identifying sperm donors with their celebrity look-alikes.
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Catholic Standard
A Blessing for Animals, and for the Earth
Featured: Fr. Jacek Orzechowski, OFM
Following the feast of St. Francis, a Maryland-based friar reflects on the meaning behind animal blessing and on climate change.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
U.S. Block Grant to Take Down Camden's Most Dilapidated
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar
After being declared the ugliest house in Cramer Hill by Camden's St. Anthony of Padua Church in August, an abandoned, crumbling home will be among the first structures to be demolished, thanks to $500,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funding.
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Olean Times Herald
Father Monti Discusses Theology's Place in Contemporary Learning
Featured: Fr. Dominic Monti, OFM
St. Bonaventure University's former interim president addressed the question of "What Does Theology Have to do With Anything?" at the campuses Father Jerome Kelly Memorial Lecture as part of the college's celebration of Francis Week.
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September
The Herald-Sun
Priest Sees Firsthand the Holes in Health Care
Featured: Fr. Steven Patti, OFM
One North Carolina friar's experience baptizing an infant at Duke Hospital leads him to reflect on health care reform in America and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's statement addressing the reform.
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The Rhode Island Catholic
Chaplains Bring God to Inmates
Featured: Fr. Michael Joyce, OFM
Behind the multiple layers of security complete with iron bars, prison guards and video surveillance, the Gospel message is brought those society has punished for their actions thanks to the diocese’s Prison Ministry at the Adult Correctional Institutions and a Providence-based friar.
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August
The Dialog
Happy Encounters, Sad Events at Migrant Camps
Featured: Fr. Christopher Posch, OFM
The director of the Office of Hispanic Ministry for the Wilmington, Del., Diocese describes a "contemporary feeding of 5,000" and other experiences with area migrant workers. (See page 28.)
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Courier-Post
Credit Camden Church for Ugly House Contest
Featured: Br. Gerald Hudson, OFM
After running into an all-too-sturdy brick wall with their continued efforts to get some of the dozens of dilapidated and abandoned buildings in Camden, N.J., torn down, members of St. Anthony of Padua Church chose to make something of a game of the problem. Recently, they went through the Cramer Hill community and snapped photos of 13 particularly bad structures for an "Ugliest House Contest."
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July
Your Carolina
Internation Festival
Featured: Fr. Patrick Tuttle, OFM
Once a year St. Anthony of Padua School in Greenville, S.C., holds a fundraiser. Prior to the July 31, 2009, event, St. Anthony's pastor and two staff members discuss the school and its festival.
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Anderson Independent Mail
Anderson Jail Opens Doors for First Hispanic Catholic Services
Featured: Frs. Aubrey McNeil, OFM, and Thaddeus Sapio, OFM
Two HNP friars from Our Lady of the Angels Parish in Anderson, S.C., began celebrating Mass at Anderson City Jail in September 2008 after learning there were a number of Hispanics held for federal immigration officials.
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Philadelphia Business Today
Pope Offers Ideas about the Economic Crisis
Featured: Fr. William Jud Weiksnar, OFM
Pope Benedict has reviewed the world economy in crisis and drawn up a 79-point list of problems and recommendations, laid out cost-benefit-analysis style and footnoted from his predecessors' pronouncements and the Bible. Author Joseph DiStefano reviews the pope's ideas.
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Busted Halo
Finding God in a Fragmented Society
Featured: Br. Daniel Horan, OFM
Twenty-four-year-old "spiritual but not religious" author Kate Clancy highlights the contemporary influence Thomas Merton has for today's population — especially young adults. She also explores how technology impacts our spiritual well-being and our relationship with the natural world.
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The Dialogue
Bishops Close Year of St. Paul
Featured: Frs. Todd Carpenter, OFM, and Michael Tyson, OFM
The Province's St. Paul's Church in Wilmington, Del., was host to a bilingual Mass attended by 150 people closing the Year of St. Paul.
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The Dialogue
Peace Be to Wilmington: St. Paul's Church Site of Rally To End Violence in the City
Featured: Fr. Michael Tyson, OFM
St. Paul's Church in Delaware hosted the "1,000 Man Call to Consciousness and Action Program." The rally's goal is to "befriend people on the corners" so they might become peacekeepers in the violent city.
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June
Your Carolina
St. Anthony's Church
Featured: Fr. Patrick Tuttle, OFM
The pastor and two members of St. Anthony of Padua in Greenville, S.C., discuss their upcoming annual International Festival in July.
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The Boston Herald
50-year friar in it for long hull
Featured: Fr. Raymond Mann, OFM
A friar celebrating his golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood discusses a hobby that began at the beginning of his ministry.
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National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Health Providers Meet in Uncertain Climate
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
Health ministry leaders gathered June 8 for a panel session at the annual Catholic Health Assembly in New Orleans, among them delivering they keynote speech was a Holy Name friar and medical ethicist.
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May
The Saratogian
New Friar Returning to Boyhood Parish
Featured: Fr. Harry Monaco, OFM
One of the Province's newly-ordained priests celebrated his first Mass on the same altar where he was baptized 45 years ago, received first communion and served as an altar boy.
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Catholic Star Herald
Growth and Decay on Opposite Sides of a Camden Street
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM
Friars and parishioners at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Camden, N.J., fight against abandoned lots in the city by planting community gardens.
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The Catholic Miscellany
Vietnamese Community Celebrates Our Lady for Mother’s Day
Featured: Fr. Dac Tran, OFM
Vietnamese Catholics of South Carolina celebrated Mother’s Day and the feast of Our Lady of La Vang on May 10 at Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville. The annual celebration commemorated an apparition of the Blessed Mother to the people of central Vietnam in 1798.
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NBC's Today Show
"Life Shift" Ad on the Today Show
Featured: Br. Fred Dilger, OFM, and Fr. Jerome Massimino, OFM
Interviews with two Holy Name friars and details about the “Life Shift” ad that the Province’s Vocation Office posted on New York Subway cars recently are featured in this three-minute piece. It was filmed in March after NBC noticed the colorful ad on the subway.
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April
Relevant Radio
Morning Air
Featured: Fr. Dominic Monti, OFM
At approximately 13 minutes into the third hour, Fr. Dominic discusses the history of the Franciscan Order and his book, Francis and His Brothers.
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The Evangelist
Easter Spirit Animates Middleburgh Community
Featured: Fr. Peter Chepaitis, OFM
An examination of Holy Name Province's Bethany Ministries, founded in 1995 and based in Middleburgh, N.Y., in the diocese of Albany.
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The Republican
Offering a Way Back for Alienated Catholics
Featured: Fr. Flavian Walsh, OFM
According to a Gallup poll, there are 15 to 20 million alienated Catholics, and 40 percent of those have a strong desire to come back to the church. A friar at St. Anthony Shrine in Boston offers a Come Home Program and a listening ear for those who need it.
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March
America
Then There Was One: The Unraveling of Catholic Health Care
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
Are Catholic hospitals worth saving? After all but one in New York City closed, Holy Name Province's friar and doctor makes his case for trying to keep the Catholic hospital alive.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
For City's Poor, Helping Hands from Canada
Featured: Friars at St. Francis Inn
A couple from Canada travels to Philadelphia to serve at St. Francis Inn for vacation instead of laying on the beach in Florida.
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New York Daily News
Custom-Made Babies Delivered: Fertility Clinic Doctor's Design-a-Kid Offer Creates Uproar
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
A friar weighs in on the debate surrounding a New York doctor who claims parents can now choose eye, hair and skin colors of their babies.
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New York Post
Friar Escape: Hard Times Boost Ranks of Poverty-Vow Order
Featured: Fr. Brian Smail, OFM, and postulant Michael Reyes
The Province's innovative choice to advertise on the New York subway system is explored, along with growing inquiries into the Franciscan lifestyle.
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February
CNN's American Morning
Friars' Underground Marketing
Featured: Frs. John O'Connor, OFM, and Brian Smail, OFM
CNN's Alina Cho looks at the Holy Name Province's ad campaign to recruit men to become Franciscan friars on the New York subway system.
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Catholic New York
Coping With Job Loss
Featured: Fr. Jerome Massimino, OFM
St. Francis of Assisi parish on West 31st Street in New York City offers help to those trying to deal with the treacherous job market.
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CNN en Espanol
Bienvenidos al Tren
Featured: Br. Octavio Duran, OFM, and Fr. Jerome Massimino, OFM
CNN en Espanol's Cenia Beltré reports on the Province's decision to recruit in the New York subways.
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Anderson Independent Mail
Read Your Scripture
Featured: Fr. Thaddeus Sapio, OFM
A South Carolina friar encourages those opposed to "illegal" immigration to look at how the Bible asks us to treat foreigners.
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Marketplace
Friars Looking for a Few Good Men
Featured: Fr. Brian Smail, OFM
An interview broadcast on National Public Radio exploring the Holy Name Province's decision to advertise for vocations on the New York subway system and who that ad might reach.
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January
Chicago Sun-Times
Abortion Foes Mass in D.C. Won't Give Up on Obama
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM
The annual March for Life against abortion drew tens of thousands of people, many of them waving signs that addressed Obama, asking him to re-think his firm support for abortion rights.
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The Buffalo News
Two Groups Aiding Ex-inmates Merge
Featured: Br. Michael Oberst, OFM
Two nonprofit organizations (Hope of Buffalo & Cephas Attica) that provide transitional housing for former prison inmates are joining forces.
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The Dialog
Violence is not the Answer
Featured: Fr. Michael Tyson, OFM
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, clergy, residents and civic leaders stand up for a more peaceful Wilmington, Del.
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The Other Journal
Embracing Sister Death: The Fraternal Worldview of Francis of Assisi as a Source for Christian Eschatological Hope
Featured: Br. Daniel Horan, OFM
Examining death and dying from a Franciscan point of view.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
In Camden, Blessings at the Door
Featured: Frs. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM, and John Coughlin, OFM
More St. Anthony of Padua parishioners request a Feast of the Three Kings blessing, which includes a chalk marking of houses.
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2008
December
The Durham News
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Featured: Fr. William McIntyre, OFM
On Dec. 12, Immaculate Conception Church joined churches across the United States and Mexico to celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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November
Mid-Hudson News Network
MSMC Holds Annual Interservice Club Luncheon on Eve of Thanksgiving
Featured: Fr. Kevin Mackin, OFM
Mount Saint Mary's president speaks about the future of the college.
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October
New York Daily News
Priest Dedicates 20th Marathon Run to Fallen Construction Workers
Featured: Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM
A Manhattan-based friar ran in the New York City Marathon, raising money for New York City construction workers who were killed or severely injured in 2008.
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The Times Herald-Record
Mount's New President Inaugurated
Featured: Fr. Kevin Mackin, OFM
Friar and newly-inaugurated president says college will focus on educating, not issuing degrees.
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September
The Greenville Journal
By God's Grace
Featured: Fr. Patrick Tuttle, OFM
St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in South Carolina meets both physical and spiritual needs of its community.
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CNN.COM
How to Talk to Your Doctor about God
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
A recent study found many Americans believe in divine intervention in a medical crisis.
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August
The Rhode Island Catholic
St. Francis Chapel: 'An Oasis in the Middle of the City'
Featured: Fr. Frank Sevola, OFM
Since 1956 the Franciscan friars have enjoyed a strong presence in downtown Providence, R.I., where they help meet the spiritual and temporal needs of faith-filled people from all walks of life.
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July
The Way of St. Francis
Assisi Community — A New Form of Religious Life?
Featured: Fr. Joseph Nangle, OFM
A friar describes the more than 20-year-old residential community in Washington, D.C., comprising both lay and religious men and women.
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Notre Dame Magazine
Of Vast Import to the Nation
Featured: Fr. William "Jud" Weiksnar, OFM
John Nagy experiences the day-to-day life of the pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Camden, N.J., including a walk with the friary's dog, Lupe, and a visit to St. Anthony's School.
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St. Anthony Messenger
Francis House: A Refuge for People With HIV/AIDS
Featured: Br. Daniel Horan, OFM
A Holy Name Province friar took photographs of this ministry site adjacent to the parish in Camden, N.J.
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June
New York Magazine
Can One Sibling Pull the Plug if the Others Don't Want To?
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
A panel, including one friar, reviews the issues surrounding six real ethical dilemmas.
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May
The New York Times
Tending to a Flock in Hard Hats
Featured: Fr. Brian Jordan, OFM
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, a Holy Name Province friar has ministered to the building trades, which has meant both celebrating acts of material creation and mourning those killed in this dangerous work.
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Times Union
Glimpse of Saratoga's Future in Gettysburg
Featured: Fr. Kevin Mullen, OFM
Siena College envisions drawing on a local battlefield's history in a similar academic fashion.
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April
New York Daily News
Mass Pays Tribute to Construction Workers who 'Did not Die in Vain'
Featured: Br. Brian Jordan, OFM
Mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral in memory of the 26 construction workers who died in the city in the past 12 months.
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New York Daily News
Holy Father Echoes Jesus' Eternal Message of Service
Featured: Fr. Christopher Keenan, OFM
Jesus' message of life, joy and service is proclaimed in many ways by the life of Catholic Christians. Through our birth and baptism, we all have a calling to intimacy with God.
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February
St. Petersburg Times
She's the Real Deal
Featured: Br. Juan de la Cruz Turcios, OFM
A musician from Sacred Heart Parish in Tampa battling cancer doesn't miss a beat.
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2007
December
Boston Herald
A Doll Maker like Nun Other
Featured: Br. John Joskowiak, OFM
One Boston-based friar spends his spare time creating doll-sized traditional nun habits.
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November
National Catholic Reporter
Faith and Family Aided Mother's Healing
Featured: Fr. Michael Carnevale, OFM
A mother experiencing postpartum depression reaches out to her parents and pastor for help and healing.
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September
St. Petersburg Times
Beacon for Homeless Casts a Glare
Featured: Fr. Sean O'Brien, OFM
Growing numbers of homeless people sleep on the steps of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tampa, Fla.
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June
The Providence Journal
New Quarters
Featured: Fr. Frank Sevola, OFM
After selling the old chapel building to a developer who converted it into a Hampton Inn, the Providence friars make arrangements to keep the St. Francis Chapel downtown for Masses.
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The Providence Journal
Providence Chapel Slated to be Hotel
Featured: Providence, R.I., friars
The St. Francis Chapel undergoes a $17-million transformation into a hotel with a pool and exercise room in fall 2007.
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May
USA Today
They Serve Their Church, Country
Featured: Fr. George Corrigan, OFM
Of men entering into religious life, 9 percent have some military connection, whether it be military service or being touched by the Iraq war. Fr. George offers comments just after his ordination.
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2006
October
New York Times Science section
The Last Word on the Last Breath
Featured: Br. Daniel Sulmasy, OFM
Who should have the final say when a patient is dying? Issues surrounding the end-of-life debate are discussed.
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The Catholic Sun
Called to Serve: Vocation Stories
Featured: Br. Daniel Horan, OFM
A friar-in-training discusses his choice to become a Franciscan and what he enjoys most about the order.
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September
NY1
FDNY Chaplain Honored at Annual Remembrance Walk
Featured: Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM
New Yorkers recall the life and service of the FDNY chaplain and other first responders who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
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2005
September
The New York Times
Admirers of Fallen 9/11 Hero Disdain the Vatican's Likely Plan to Bar Gays as Priests
Featured: Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM
Fond memories of the life of a celibate, gay friar cause many to call into question Vatican discussions to ban homosexual men from joining the priesthood.
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