The Tablet (Brooklyn, NY)

The Tablet is a weekly newspaper focused on Catholic news, released every Saturday by The Tablet Publishing Co, Inc. It has been serving the communities of Queens and Brooklyn, New York, since 1908.

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‘Inspired’ By Pope Francis, Catholics Vow To Continue Environmental Ministry

3 days ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

JAMAICA ESTATES — Ellen Rhatigan has no doubt that Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato si’, which urges Catholics to respect the environment and show compassion to the less fortunate, will live on after his death.
Queens Deacon Witnesses History, Recalls ‘Beautiful Moment’ With Pope

4 days ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Not everyone can say that they broke bread with a future pope, but one local seminarian can.
Peruvian-Americans in Diocese ‘Elated’ With Election of New Pope

4 days ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

WOODSIDE — For Peruvian-Americans in the Diocese of Brooklyn, the selection of Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope on May 8 was a double delight. While the new pontiff, who took the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first American-born pope, he also has strong ties to Peru, where he is also a citizen and served as a missionary for more than 20 years and bishop of the Diocese of Chiclayo for eight years.
Cloistered Nuns Reflect on Meeting With Pope Francis

4 days ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

JAMAICA — Almost 10 years have passed, but Sister Maria Virgen Morena still remembers how her knees shook when she met Pope Francis at JFK Airport. “I was very, very nervous!” Sister Maria recalled. The meeting took place when Pope Francis, on his apostolic trip to the United States in September 2015 — a journey that included a visit to New York — came to JFK Airport to board a plane to Philadelphia.
How Europe’s Roots Shape U.S. Identity

1 week ago | thetablet.org | George Weigel

Christian conviction continues to warp European high culture and erode European civil liberties. A vast immigration from North Africa and the Middle East has created immense social problems that feckless politicians seem incapable of addressing. Little good, however, is going to be achieved by the vice president of the United States heaping scorn on Europe, echoed by the U.S. Secretary of Defense declaring Europe “PATHETIC” (his caps, not mine).
100 Years Later, 14-Day Novena Revived to Pray for Msgr. Quinn’s Canonization

1 week ago | thetablet.org | Bill Miller

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Thérèse of Lisieux was only 24 in the summer of 1897, but she knew her death was imminent. Still, two months before she died from tuberculosis, the future saint assured that her good work was only getting started when she famously said, “I will spend my heaven in doing good upon earth.” Some 20 years later, the priest who would go on to become Msgr. Bernard J. Quinn took her up on that promise.
Diocese of Brooklyn Unites in Prayer as Conclave to Select New Pope Commences

1 week ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

DOUGLASTON — Like millions of Catholics around the world, Fernando Silva spent the morning of May 7 praying for the cardinal electors as they deliberated during the opening of the papal conclave to select a successor to the late Pope Francis. “I pray for the Holy Spirit to guide them so that they will make a decision that is good for the church,” said Silva, who came to the Immaculate Conception Center to attend a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert Brennan to mark the start of the conclave.
Brooklyn Bishop Robert Brennan Urges Catholics to Take Action as New York Suicide Bill Advances

1 week ago | thetablet.org | Bill Miller

ALBANY — The Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with doctor-prescribed drugs, has new life, having passed the New York State Assembly with an 81-67 vote on April 29. As of May 1, the bill, also called the MAID Act, was in the New York State Senate’s Health Committee. Meanwhile, Gov. Kathy Hochul has not publicly taken a position on the bill. She is an ardent supporter of abortion rights, while also pursuing suicide-prevention programs.
Faith Restored: St. Dominic Church Celebrates Return of Statues After Vandalism

1 week ago | thetablet.org | Paula Katinas

BENSONHURST — Victoria Cirillo has been a parishioner of St. Dominic Church in Bensonhurst for most of her life, so when a hammer-wielding vandal destroyed two of the church’s statues 11 months ago, “it was devastating.”Cirillo’s sadness turned into joy on May 4, when Father Michael Lynch, pastor of St. Athanasius-St. Dominic Parish, dedicated and blessed two new statues that the church had built to replace the damaged ones.
Creation, Last Judgment, Stoves: Workers Ready Sistine Chapel for Conclave

1 week ago | thetablet.org | Wandy Ortiz

by Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the “must see” list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican. But as 133 of the world’s cardinals prepared to enter the conclave May 7 to elect the new pope, the Sistine Chapel was closed to visitors April 28. In preparation for the conclave, workers placed a protective covering over the marble mosaic floors and started carrying in pipes, couplers and sheets of subflooring.