His Eminence Cardinal John O'Connor has completed his earthly journey and has gone home to God.

This came as a big surprise and a big letdown.

St. Patrick is the patron saint of the Archdiocese of New York. As such, we celebrate March 17 as a feast day and all Catholics in the archdiocese get a dispensation from the Lenten requirements for that day.

The tradition of the Smith dinner is to bring people together.

feeling better ... but still weak and not able to resume a regular schedule.

We will work with the school community, with parents, to make the transition as smooth as possible. We believe in this process.

We are shocked and disappointed about what allegedly took place at ICS, and we have put into place new procedures and better financial oversight to prevent something like this from happening again.

There haven't been any added in the last few years because people decided it wasn't worth the upset that it caused in some communities.

We want to hear about anything we might have overlooked.

We are pushing very hard to move this forward, ... The cardinal has made it abundantly clear that this is priority No. 1.