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Vol. 45 No. 47
February 14, 2007 |
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National/World News
from Catholic News Service |
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NEW! Click on the logo to access Faith Alive, a
weekly catechetical feature from Catholic News Service. |
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World Day of the Sick Mass
Bishop William Murphy was the principal celebrant
and homilist at a Mass marking the 15th World Day of
the Sick at St. Agnes Cathedral, Rockville Centre,
Feb. 11. Among those in attendance at the liturgy
were local members of the Order of Malta, an
international Catholic organization committed to
serving people who are ill or disabled. World Day of
the Sick, instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1992
and celebrated annually on the feast of Our Lady of
Lourdes, affirms the church’s duty to remember and
minister to the sick and the suffering.
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Catholic practices during Lent
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Rockville Centre — Ash Wednesday, the first day of
Lent, will be February 21 this year. The following are
diocesan guidelines for Catholic practices during the Lenten
season.
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Centenarian shares vitality, joy for life
with fellow seniors
By Gregory A. Shemitz
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Wearing a star-spangled tiara and heart-shaped “Birthday
Princess” button, Mary Sesso celebrated her 100th birthday
Feb. 8 with friends, relatives and well-wishers at her
home-away-from-home, the Catholic Charities’ Senior
Community Service Center in Franklin Square.
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Our Parishes
St. John the Evangelist Church, Riverhead
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Shortly after the Diocese of Brooklyn was formed in 1853,
Bishop John Loughlin created three mission churches on Long
Island’s East End to serve a growing population of Irish and
German immigrants: St. John the Evangelist, Riverhead; St.
Agnes, Greenport; and St. Patrick, Southold. St. John’s,
comprised primarily of Irish worshippers, was eventually
granted parish status in 1864. However, it wasn’t until 1879
that the church welcomed its first resident pastor.
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New mission is to bring continuing mission
stories to young people
By Pete Sheehan
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Rockville Centre — Brenda Pistani is on a mission:
asking Catholic schools and parish religious education
programs to get involved with the Holy Childhood
Association.
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Black History Month |
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Black Catholic priest-historian retraces
his own history
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Washington (CNS) — Benedictine Father Cyprian
Davis, one of the leading historians of the black Catholic
experience in the United States, came to the Catholic Church
thanks in part to history. But it wasn’t the kind of history
that’s reflected in his books.
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Black History Month -- A Mass marking the National
Day of Prayer for the African-American Family and Black
History Month was celebrated at St. Martha’s Parish in
Uniondale Feb. 4.
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St. Vincent de Paul Society begins
energetic effort to cut poverty in U.S.
By Mary Gorry
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Bethpage — No work of charity is foreign to the
St. Vincent de Paul Society. Members on Long Island run
thrift stores, provide financial management services, make
home visits to families in need, and even fix washing
machines and install cesspools, which is why the society did
not hesitate to become involved in Catholic Charities’
Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America.
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Sociologists see strong identity, less
commitment in young Catholics
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Washington (CNS) — Young adult Catholics have a
strong Catholic identity but do not feel much of a
commitment to the institutional church or its moral
teachings, two sociologists said Feb. 6 in Washington.
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Health & Hospitals |
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Infectious diseases still present enormous
problems
By Pete Sheehan
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When three delegates from Catholic Health Services (CHS) of
Long Island attended a Vatican conference on infectious
disease, the experience proved “a real eye-opener,” CHS
President James Harden noted.
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Dr. Louis Guida honored by Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation
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West Islip — Louis E. Guida Jr., medical director
of the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and Family Asthma and Allergy
Center at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center here, was
recently honored by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at its
34th annual Breath of Life Gala.
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Mercy Medical Center named bariatric
center of excellence
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Rockville Centre — Mercy Medical Center has been
named a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, an award
recognizing hospitals that provide the highest levels of
efficacy, efficiency and safety in weight-loss surgery.
Mercy is one of only 211 hospitals in the U.S. to receive
the designation from the American Society for Bariatric
Surgery.
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News from Mercy Medical Center ...
Three new directors named
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Rockville Centre — Three new appointments were
announced at Mercy Medical Center here. John P. Reilly was
appointed director of internal medicine; Jeffrey Alan Brown,
director of neurosurgery; and Mark A. Xuereb, director of
the hospitalist service.
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Fetal pain legislation just one of
life-related bills before Congress
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Washington (CNS) — The last pro-life bill to be
considered by the 109th Congress became one of the first
introduced in the 110th Congress when Sen. Sam Brownback,
R-Kan., reintroduced the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act.
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Pope: Catholics must ensure affection,
support for sick
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Vatican City (CNS) — Catholics must ensure that
people who are sick, especially the terminally ill, receive
affection, spiritual support and medical care to keep them
comfortable, Pope Benedict XVI said, marking the World Day
of the Sick Feb. 11.
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