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As we approach the summer vacation season, I wanted to catch you up on several things that have been on my mind! 1. Congratulations to John Woods and the entire staff of Catholic New York ( CNY )! At last week’s Catholic Press Association convention, CNY once again walked off with an armful of awards, including the coveted General Excellence Award for the second year in a row, plus first-place honors for stories that they did on last year’s papal transition, and the Year of Faith !

On Friday the New York Post published an op-ed I wrote on the Education Investment Tax Credit: The concept of the tax credit is simple, and similar plans have already been passed in 21 other states and the District of Columbia.

Homily for Sunday, June 22, 2014: We have a God who keeps his promises!

Yesterday’s beautiful feast of Corpus Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ) allows us to renew our commitment to making Sunday Mass the priority of our Catholic life, of every parish family. One of the valuable lessons we’re learning from Making All Things New , our strategic pastoral planning initiative, is that people want a reverent, uplifting, joyful, welcoming, meaningful Sunday Mass.

Over the weekend, I had the joy of welcoming hundreds of our married couples celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversaries, and the cathedral was packed for two Masses with the couples, their children, and grandkids.

We are destined to live the same life of love that exists in the Most Blessed Trinity–the Trinity is the foundation of everything.

Support continues to grow for the Education Investment Tax Credit . Here is an excerpt from an editorial in the Daily News: Timothy Cardinal Dolan and his fellow bishops are keeping up the good fight for a tax credit to boost scholarships for kids in Catholic schools and similar institutions.

These blessed days in the Church’s calendar draw our attention to prayer . Last Thursday, we reverently and gratefully recalled the Ascension of Jesus, returning to His Father in heaven forty days after His Resurrection from the dead.

Cardinal Dolan teaches us seven lessons that we can learn from the Apostles after Jesus ascends to the Father.

“A great temptation of our age is to forget God. We must remember we are children of God and that He sent His Son to redeem us!” – Cardinal Dolan