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Bill McGurn in today’s New York Post has an excellent column on Dr. Jerome Lejeune: Lejeune was the French geneticist whose breakthrough came in 1958, when he discovered the extra chromosome on the 21st pair that causes Down syndrome… Trisomy 21 families could use a patron saint.

Cardinal Dolan reflects on what really fills our hearts.

Here is a great piece on Catholic education from the New York Daily News by Peter Meyer: Church officials and educators have not given up, and there are numerous initiatives that have been launched in the last 20 years meant to staunch the hemorrhaging.

Easter Sunday

Holy Saturday

Good Friday

Holy Thursday

Wednesday of Holy Week (or “Spy Wednesday”)

Tuesday of Holy Week

I hope that our non-Catholic friends will pardon many of us Catholics today. They will probably sense that we’re a bit jittery:  This is Holy Week, and, today is Reconciliation Monday throughout all five boroughs, Long Island, and seven counties north of the Bronx, reaching almost to Albany.

Monday of Holy Week

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Thought you would enjoy this wonderful piece on the Cathedral from Mary DeTurris Poust : At first, as we walked along the outer edges of the cathedral, trying to avoid wires and boards and construction workers, I wondered aloud why they would even bother to keep the cathedral open under such conditions.

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Tuesday, Fifth Week of Lent

Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent

Fifth Sunday of Lent