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From the most recent “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan,” Father Dave Dwyer and I discuss Midnight Mass and Reconciliation Monday. As a special Christmas treat, the choir of the Academy of St. Joseph in Greenwich Village, under the direction of Michael Bodnyk, performed live for us “Jesus, the Light of the World.” Thanks for listening!

On the Campus of the Catholic University of America in Washington DC, USCCB President Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Catholic University President John Garvey join me for “Conversation with Cardinal Dolan.”

Here is my Homily from Gaudete Sunday, December 11th, 2016.

I’d like to share with you a powerful and insightful piece by George Will from the New York Post about a commercial “banned in France in France for its positive depiction of those suffering from Down syndrome.” Here’s an excerpt: In 2014, in conjunction with World Down Syndrome Day (March 21), the Global Down Syndrome Foundation prepared a two-minute video titled “Dear Future Mom” to assuage the anxieties of pregnant women who have learned that they are carrying a Down syndrome baby.

My Jewish friends, while assuring me that they very much enjoy the Christmas season, do observe that never do they feel more “other” than during these days. It dawns on them, they continue, that a big chunk of the world is celebrating a feast, and they’re not.