NEW YORK — Angelo Gambatese, OFM, became one of New York’s Treasures last week. At a Sept. 30 reception, Health Advocates for Older People presented him with the 2014 New York Treasures award. The event, held at the Yale Club in Midtown Manhattan, included a cocktail reception followed by dinner. The awards were given out at the end of the …
Buffalo Friars Collaborate with Community
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An event designed for city agencies to let the community know what services are available ended with people getting to know the friars and their work. Last month, representatives from nearly 20 social service programs came to St. Patrick Friary to provide information to area residents. They set up a trade-show-like event in an area known as …
JPIC Course to Focus on Human Rights
ROME – The Order’s General Office for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation welcomes friars to register for this year’s annual course, “The Excluded and Human Rights: Toward a Church for the Poor.” The program is being offered April 29 to May 9 at the Pontifical University Antonianum. The 11-day course includes a variety of lectures by representatives of educational …
Shrine’s Ministry to the Forgotten Captures Media Attention
BOSTON — On a sunny, cool day in early December, the friars of St. Anthony Shrine laid to rest three abandoned infants during a private, poignant burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery. The Shrine’s Lazarus Ministry was doing what it has done for 10 years — celebrating Masses of Christian Burial for forgotten men, women and children, in this case, babies …