A crocus, impertinent in the March cold: and I’ve found her, winking.
Eileen Markey
Eileen Markey teaches journalism at Lehman College and is at work on a book about the people’s movement that helped to rebuild the Bronx in the 1970s and ’80s.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Remembering the man who helped young people in the South Bronx find strength in community
Dr. Edward Eismann structured Unitas around surrogate families—groups of teens and younger children assigned to care for each other in cascading mentorship that also supported birth families. As they spoke at the funeral home, those who had grown up in Unitas testified to its profound influence in their life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The grace of a good priest: Neil Connolly and the South Bronx’s resurrection story
Angel Garcia tells the story of the Rev. Neil Connolly, a priest with a deep faith in his parishioners, who carried their faith from the mountains of Puerto Rico to the streets of the Bronx.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Catholics owe Marty Baron a debt of gratitude. He told us the truth about the clerical sex abuse crisis.
An outsider in parochial Boston not beholden to ties of kin and culture, Mr. Baron greenlighted an expensive and difficult investigation.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Remembering Jim Dwyer: Jesuit-educated, Pulitzer Prize winner and the last bard of New York
The death of renowned reporter Jim Dwyer is a loss for New York City—as well as for all the people he influenced, informed, or touched in other ways over the course of an impressive life.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Can we use public health models to cure the disease of gun violence?
From the streets of Chicago to hospital halls in the Bronx, volunteers are trying to end the national scourge of gun violence by treating it as a virus, preventing victims from becoming perpetrators.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Canadian Catholics grapple with a history of “whitewashing” indigenous children
Canada has begun truth-seeking and reconciliation, and the Sisters of Charity in Nova Scotia are confronting their order’s role in a racist educational system.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Marking the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi with the spirit of Standing Rock
Long before Pope Francis articulated in “Laudato Si’” a comprehensive Catholic call to care for the physical environment, Agape members were focused on treading lightly on the earth and combining a contemplative lifestyle with frontline environmental and peace activism.
Posted inFaith, Features
How Standing Rock became a spiritual pilgrimage for activists
Activists see a moral imperative for protecting our water.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why journalists need to resist the label of ‘the opposition’
The media is not the “enemy of the people.” We are the people’s detectives.