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The World’s Oldest Living Altar Boy (Mario Cuomo Edition)
St. Ignatius Loyola Church, the Kim Kardashian of the Upper East Side that’s about to swallow the far more worship-worthy Church of St. Thomas More, is back in the news today. (As the hardlapsing staff has previously noted, we were an … Continue reading
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The World’s Oldest Living Altar Boy (Peggy Noonan Edition)
As the hardworking staff has previously noted, back in the 1960s we were the world’s oldest living altar boy at the Church of St. Thomas More in Manhattan. And as we also noted, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York intends to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Furlong, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Carnegie Hill, Cathaholic, Christopher E. Baldwin, Fordham Prep, Jackie's Agnes, Kim Kardashian of the Upper East Side, New York Times, Peggy Noodnik, Peggy Noonan, Rev. Kevin Madigan, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, St. Catherine Siena, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. John Nepomucene, St. John the Martyr, St. Thomas More, St. Vincent Ferrer, Wall Street Journal
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‘The World’s Oldest Living Altar Boy’ II (St. Thomas More – or Less – Edition)
As chronicled here not long ago, I was the world’s oldest living altar boy back in the ’60s, thanks to a deal my Mom (aka Jackie’s Agnes) cut with Bishop Furlong at the Church of St. Thomas More in Manhattan. In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Furlong, Cathaholic, Christopher E. Baldwin, Fordham Prep, Jackie's Agnes, New York Times, Rev. Kevin Madigan, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, St. Catherine Siena, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. John Nepomucene, St. John the Martyr, St. Thomas More, St. Vincent Ferrer
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‘The World’s Oldest Living Altar Boy’
(In a recent post about potential sneaker endorsements for Pope Francis, I mentioned that years ago I had been “the Oldest Altar Boy Ever (details to come).” So here they are.) I grew up on New York’s Upper East Side before … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (Dean Meminger Edition)
Al McGuire, Meminger’s coach at Marquette, once said he was “quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.” From Saturday’s New York Times: Dean Meminger, Who Helped Knicks to a Title, Dies at 65 Dean Meminger, a speedy guard and … Continue reading
Habemus Papam (Jesuits Rule! Edition)
The hardlearning staff, being a double-Jebbie (Fordham Prep class of ’67, Xavier University class of ’71), couldn’t be more pleased with new Pope Francis I, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. Not that it really matters to us: Our Catholicism lapsed … Continue reading
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Philip Markoff Edition)
The Boston dailies’ second-day coverage of Craigslist killer Philip Markoff’s apparent jailhouse suicide really separated the sheep from the goats, as Fr. Fahey used to say back at Fordham Prep in the ’60s. Tuesday Boston Globe headline: Markoff scrawled messages … Continue reading
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