NEWS

A full-page ad featuring The World Needs Heroes NYPRIEST.COM hit the July edition of the New York Yankees Magazine - right opposite information on Stadium tours.

Special coverage of the Pilgrimage to Rome by Catholic New York.
Click here to see Archbishop Dolan offer Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Click here to see WCBS Channel 2 commentary on the Pallium by Father Luke Sweeney.
Click here to read the account of Archbishop Dolan's walking tour of Rome (reported by an on-site NY Daily News reporter).

Archbishop Dolan is Fr. Benedict's guest on Fathers' Day and plugs the Cathedral Prep Program.
Click here to see the entire hour-long program.

Icon of Christ the Great High Priest

Pope Benedict XVI has declared a “Year for Priests” beginning with the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 19, 2009. The year will conclude in Rome with an international gathering of priests with the Holy Father on June 19, 2010.
With the announcement of this Year for Priests, the Pope has declared St. John Vianney the Universal Patron of Priests on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of the Curé d’Ars.
The Holy Father's Letter Proclaiming a Year for Priests.
"Can I let you know of my excitement about the Year of Priests..." from Archbishop Dolan's column in Catholic New York.
Click here for the US Bishops' Website for the Year for Priests.
Special Indulgence for the Year for Priests from the Holy See.

Father Luke Sweeney will preach Friday, June 19, 2009 at a 7:30 PM Sacred Heart Mass at St. Columba Church in Hopewell Junction to inaugurate the Year for Priests.

St. John Vianney

Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI declared a year of the priest in an effort to encourage "spiritual perfection" in priests.

The pope will open the special year with a vespers service at the Vatican June 19 -- the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the day for the sanctification of priests. He will close the celebrations during a World Meeting of Priests in St. Peter's Square June 19, 2010.

The pope made the announcement during an audience March 16 with members of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy.

He met with some 70 participants of the congregation's March 16-18 plenary assembly, which focused on the missionary identity of the priest and his mission to sanctify, teach and govern. Read full article from Catholic News Service

The Cure of Ars - St. John Vianney
Online Reading
Click for brief summary of his life
Click for thorough survey of his life

Biographies
The Cure D'Ars Today: St John Vianney by Fr. George William Rutler (a New York Priest)
The Cure D'Ars : St. Jean-Marie-Baptiste Vianney by F. Trochu

Fr. Luke Sweeney, his father Luke Sweeney, and Archbishop Dolan
The presence of a father is invaluable in a boy’s life. As a vocation director I witness the wounds left when fathers are physically or emotionally distant from a young man. There can be anger that builds up, problems of relating in an appropriate masculine way and difficulties in school. I have been blessed with my dad’s continued active presence in my life.

Reading the entire article at the Fathers for Good website.

As we come to the end of the school year we will have our 3rd Annual Prep Extended Weekend from Friday at 5:45 PM for Evening Prayer and dinner with your families on June 26th until a family BBQ Tuesday from 6:00 - 8:00 PM, June 30th.
We will take time at the seminary for a brief retreat, go on a Sunday pilgrimage to Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus, NY with an afternoon of sports, head to Six Flags Great Adventure on Monday and finish with an Olympic Day of sporting events on the seminary grounds and in our athletic center.
Dress for the weekend: recreational (jeans or shorts, sneakers and tee shirts) - don't forget a bathing suit for Tuesday afternoon if you would like to swim in our pool!
Dress Sunday morning: casual (slacks, shoes and collared shirt).
The Prep Weekend is a chance for a young man to draw closer to the Lord Jesus and to experience good fraternity with others considering the call. All high school age young men interested in a vocation to the priesthood are encouraged to attend the overnight at St. Joseph's Seminary. To register for the weekend please do so by Wednesday, June 24 by calling (914) 968-1340 or by contacting vocations@archny.org.
Click here for Cathedral Prep's website.

EVENT: The Young Adult Mass
SPONSOR: Archdiocese of New York
DATE: Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
TIME: 7:30 PM
VENUE: The Cathedral of St. Patrick in The Lady Chapel
CELEBRANT: Fr. Luke Sweeney
AFTER: Go to Connolly's (47th btwn Madison and 5th) to order some food and make some new friends.

This will, very likely, be the last Young Adult Mass Daniel Schreck organizes for the Archdiocese. His wife and new baby will be there so lets join them and thank Dan for 3 great years!

Click the image to watch Archbishop Dolan's interview on The World Over on the EWTN News page.

Listed below are links to several videos from CBS 2 covering Archbishop Timothy Dolan's Installation.

Analysis: Archbishop Dolan’s Installation
Fr. Luke Sweeney's Commentary for Archbishop Dolan's Mass of Installation
Complete Archbishop Dolan Installation Newser
Archbishop Dolan Addresses NY Media
New York City Welcomes New Archbishop
NYC Catholics Have High Hopes for Archbishop Dolan

Each month priests on Staten Island, in Dutchess County, in Orange County, in the Northeast Bronx and soon-to-be in Rockland County get together to pray and eat pizza with young men in high school who are considering the priesthood. The evenings last approximately 90 minutes. For details about location and time and to register, please call the Vocations Office at (914) 968-1340 or e-mail us at vocations@archny.org.
Upcoming dates
-Staten Island: Wednesdays May 13 and June 10
-Dutchess County: Friday May 29
-Orange County (western): April 28 and May 26

As we welcome our New Archbishop, be sure to catch all the coverage of the Installation Events on TV and radio!

Tuesday there will be Vespers (Evening Prayer) at 7:00 PM (Procession begins at 6:30 PM).
Wednesday there will be the Installation Mass at 2:00 PM (Procession begins at 1:30 PM).

Fr. Luis Saldaña will be offering commentary for NY1 Noticias during Tuesday's Vespers.
Fr. Luke Sweeney will be offering commentary for WCBS Channel 2 on Wednesday.

The garrulous Timothy Michael Dolan, preacher and raconteur extraordinaire, chooses his words carefully. And when ordained a bishop in 2001 in St. Louis, his first words were: “Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on me! Immaculate Heart of Mary, help me!”
He then went on to express his joy in the priesthood, his love for the Church, his delight in his parishioners — and also brought the house down with his ever-ready wit.
The newly appointed archbishop of New York is just that — a larger-than-life figure completely at home with the simple faith of ordinary Catholics. Click here to read the full article.

Watch a recent Fox News interview with family of New York's Archbishop-Designate, Archbishop Dolan.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan has received a warm welcome upon being named the new Archbishop of New York. Listed below are various links to recent news stories, audio, and video, where you can learn more about Archbishop Dolan.

ARTICLES
The New York Times - A Guy’s Guy: Dolan’s Personality May Help Archdiocese Recruit More Priests
The Washington Post - New York Welcomes Its Next Archbishop
MSNBC - Vatican Names Next Archbishop of New York
Blog article on LoHud.com
New York Post cover of Archbishop Dolan

MEDIA
NY1 Video - New Archbishop Returns To Milwaukee
Living Our Faith - Archbishop Dolan’s Web based TV station
Sirius Radio - Interview with Cardinal Egan and New Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan on the Catholic Channel

His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed His Excellency, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, to the Archdiocese of New York. Archbishop Dolan has served as the Archbishop of Milwaukee since 2002. He will be the 13th Bishop and 10th Archbishop of the See of New York. He succeeds His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan, who submitted his letter of retirement upon reaching the age of 75 on April 2, 2007.
In a statement, Archbishop Dolan addressed New Yorkers, saying, "My brother bishops, priests, religious women and men, seminarians, committed Catholics of this wonderful Church, I pledge to you my love, my life, my heart, and I can tell you already that I love you, I need so much your prayers and support, I am so honored, humbled, and happy to serve as your pastor."
Click here for the complete press release.

Fr. Luke Sweeney and Fr. Luis Saldaña will lead the Spring Discernment Weekend for young men 18 to 40 years of age from the 3rd until the 5th of April 2009. The weekend starts with 6:00 PM Evening Prayer in our mangificent chapel on Friday afternoon and will conclude about 2:00 PM on Palm Sunday after joining the seminarians at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
It is an opportunity to meet and to speak with other young men who are considering this profound calling to the Priesthood. There are also chances to meet with seminarians, both those who have recently taken the step out of the world and into the seminary, and those getting ready to step back out of the seminary and into parish life as priests. We will discuss who a priest is and what promises a priest takes (obedience and celibacy). There will also be an opportunity to hear a few young diocesan priests tell us what it has been like for them offering the sacraments, preaching, visiting and being with their parishioners whose souls have been entrusted to them.
For more information, please call (914) 968-1340. To register contact vocations@archny.org.

A video of Fr. Neuhaus speaking on the courage to decide.

Though spoken in the context of marriage, the comments of Fr. Neuhaus
provide powerful insight to those discerning vocations.

St. Joseph's Seminary will host the annual Mass and Dinner for Priestly Vocations on Thursday, March 19, 2009. His Eminence Cardinal Egan will offer Mass at 5:00 PM. Tours of the seminary will be available starting at 3:30 PM. Young men in grades 8-12 are invited to attend. For more information and to register, please contact the Vocations office at (914) 968-1340 or vocations@archny.org.

As part of the NYPRIEST.COM campaign, ads were again on display at Madison Square Garden.
Check out the ads from this recent St. John's versus Duke basketball game.

The NYPRIEST.COM ad campaign has been displaying ads at both St. John's University
and Fordham University basketball games. Be on the look out for our ads at these remaining games:

St. John's

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Fordham

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On January, 19, 2009, CatholicVote.com released the first ad of its national media campaign titled “Life: Imagine the Potential.” The ad has since gone viral, having over 1 million views and counting; and it has been picked up by various media outlets including the O’Reilly Factor. Watch the video above or click here to visit CatholicVote.com.

'Most admired priest'-theologian mourned.
The death of Monsignor William B. Smith - a promoter of Catholic moral teachings for almost 40 years - will leave a gaping hole in New York's Catholic community, mourners said yesterday at a wake for Smith at St. Joseph's Seminary.
"Over the years, he became, in my opinion, the most admired priest in the Archdiocese of New York," said Monsignor Francis McAree, former rector of the seminary, where Smith served as professor of moral theology since 1971.
Click here for the complete article.
Click here to view News 12 coverage.

Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson, Father Richard John Neuhaus and Raymond Arroyo of the Eternal Word Television Network.

Father Richard John Neuhaus, a former Lutheran minister who became a Catholic priest and a staunch defender of church teaching on abortion and other life issues, died Jan. 8. He was 72.
On Sept. 8, 1990, then-Rev. Neuhaus became a Catholic and a year later he was ordained by Cardinal John J. O'Connor as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
Click here to read the full Catholic News Service article.