Much has been written—and more will be—on the historic challenges and loss that the pandemic has wrought on our…
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May 11, 2022
The title Laudato si’, or “Praised be You” is a reference to St. Francis of Assisi’s 13th-century poem Canticle of the Creatures. It is written in a Medieval Italian dialect…
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May 11, 2022
Monsignor Archibald Vincent McLees was a Catholic priest in Brooklyn and Queens at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He was also my paternal grandfather’s first cousin. Research…
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May 5, 2022
“I saw her first. No, I saw her first. No, I saw her first, well, she’s, my mommy. Yes, and she is my daughter. And she was born before…
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