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Friday evening I joined our friends from the Associazione Culturale Pugliese Figli Maria SS. Addolorata for their hebdomadal prayer service in honor of St. Rita of Cascia. Meeting in the basement of the Nazareth Center, on the corner of 62nd Street and Bay Parkway in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, members convened for week two of their 15 week devotional t...

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"In the name of the Assumption, / brothers, beat yourself": to this invitation, pronounced with a stony voice by the Capo dei battenti, hundreds and hundreds of devotees kneel down on the churchyard, the chest begins to be struck with blood, while the painting of the Madonna leaves the church of Guardia Sanframondi, Sannio, in the Province of Benev...

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When: Monday, March 19, 2018, 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. - WhrTrattoria Romana | 1476 Hylan Boulevard | Staten Island, NY 10305 - Costs: Members: $60; Non-Members: $70 - More info: Advance registration required. Spaces are limited. RSVP by Monday, March 12. The evening will be celebrated with the traditional meatless specialties of Chef/Owner Vittorio...

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Società SS. Crocifisso & San Giovanni Bosco di Ciminna (Chicago) will honor Antonino Napoli as Man of the Year at its dinner dance on March 3 at Alta Villa Banquets in Addison. A longtime luminary of the Chicago-area Italian-American community, Napoli has been a driving force among local Ciminnesi for decades. “Tony has been a pillar of our communi...

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The Rev. Peter M. Colapietro, a Roman Catholic priest and outsize New York personality whose late-night presence as a regular at celebrity hangouts contrasted with his low-key work at Theater District parishes, died on Monday in the Bronx. He was 69. The cause was emphysema, said Dr. Joseph Platania, his cardiologist. Father Colapietro had been in...

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Between family tension, health issues, a destroyed reputation and exile from the community of Roman Catholic nuns she helped found, Clelia Merloni could have easily given up. But instead, Merloni bore those trials quietly and without complaint and chose to love those who persecuted her. It’s one of the reasons the nuns of the Hamden-based religious...

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From Theodore Roosevelt to Elvis Presley, from William Howard Taft to Babe Ruth, guests who stayed in the New Washington Hotel in downtown Seattle ranged from presidents to sports stars to music idols. This once-elegant 14-story building on the corner of Second Avenue and Stewart Street, built in 1908, was the city’s premier hotel for decades. It h...

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In the mood for a delicious Italian dinner and supporting a cause? The St. Catherine of Siena Church youth mission team hosts its seventh annual Italian dinner on Friday, Feb. 16, with seating from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the school gym, 845 W. Main St. in West Dundee. Immediately after the dinner at 7 p.m., guests will gather in the church for prayer...

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The group that has been fighting to save Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church from demolition postponed an appearance it was to make before the Historical Commission Thursday night, when it was to make its case for a study committee to look into the creation of a local historic district in the area of the former church. In an email sent out Thursday mor...

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Monday evening, I made a pilgrimage (I think a two-hour subway commute counts as a pilgrimage) to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Pontifical Shrine (448 E 116th St.) in East Harlem, New York for the Feast of St. Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850), founder of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate, the Pallottine Fathers, Brothers and Sisters.  Solemn High Mass (1...

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