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Bishop John Oliver Barres! We are happy to welcome our new Bishop, The Most Reverend John O. Barres, to the Diocese of Rockville Centre. May God Bless you as you begin your new ministry as Shepherd to the People of Long Island.
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John Barres is installed as new diocese bishop By PeteR BelfIoRe
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t took more than 10 minutes for Bishop John Barres to reach the altar after a procession of nearly 200 clergy members led him to the head of St. Agnes Cathedral for his installation as the spiritual leader of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
But even by the time he took his seat, the excitement was evident on many faces in the crowd packed into the pews, as well as the priests, deacons and bishops who flanked the diocese’s new bishop. The Most Reverend Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s diplomatic representative for the United States, read a letter from Pope Francis — translated from Latin. In it, the Pope thanked his “old friend,” the outgoing Bishop William Murphy, for his 15 years of service to the diocese. Murphy, 76, was moved to tears as the crowd erupted into a standing ovation. He was the diocese’s fourth bishop since its creation in 1957, and according to the Code of Canon Law, diocesan bishops must submit their resignations to the Pope when they reach age 75. Pierre continued reading the letter and officially released Barres from his responsibility as Bishop of Allentown, Pa. — where he served as that community’s spiritual leader for more than seven years. Barres will miss his old parish, as evidenced during a news conference announcing his incoming role on Dec. 9, when his voice cracked and he appeared to be overwhelmed with emotion while talking about the community that he was leaving behind. After Pierre read the letter, Barres took it and proudly held it over his head as he walked around — showing it to all who were present. He doubled back to make sure people sitting towards the rear could see. Barres returned to the altar, and his succession was officially completed as Murphy and Pierre, beaming, seated him in his ornate, high-backed chair, or cathedra, and handed him his golden shepherd’s cane, called a crosier. In his 30-minute homily, the new bishop emphasized inclusivity, warned of the dangers of consumerism and implored the diocese’s 1.5 million members to reach out to inactive Catholics around them to try to bring them back into the religious community. “I am so very sorry if you have been hurt or disappointed by the church in any way, and we stand here today to support you, to listen to you and to love you,” Barres said to any Catholics listening who may have turned away from the church. He also thanked Pierre, Murphy, Cardinal Timothy Dolan as well as friends, mentors and family members who helped him to get to this point. In his closing remarks, the bishop
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Bishop John Barres, new spiritual leader of the Rockville Centre Diocese, held up a letter from Pope Francis releasing him from his duties in Allentown, Pa., and naming him Rockville Centre's bishop. for video of his installation, see liherald.com. thanked the youth of the diocese for their commitment to the Catholic Church, both now and in the future. “I cannot wait to meet you. I cannot wait to serve you,” he said to them. After leading communion, Barres followed the procession out, embracing anyone who reached out to touch him. People who came out to see the new bishop enthusiastically welcomed his leadership. Publishers ClIffoRd RIChneR StuaRt RIChneR Executive Editor SCott BRInton Christina Daly/Herald
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During his installation, Barres implored Long Island Catholics who have left the church to return to the fold.
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the fold. “It’s part of our discipleship,” responded Marianne Patrick, 67, from Jericho. She said she looked forward to the new bishop visiting local churches. Younger Catholics who came to see Barres appreciated his acknowledgment of the church’s youth. “I really liked how he gave a special mention to the young people,” said Melissa Arnold, 27, from Stony Brook. “As a young adult myself who lives on a college campus … I was glad to hear us mentioned.” Local officials were happy to hear the bishop’s words on understanding. “His
message was very clear,” said Nancy Howard, deputy mayor of Rockville Centre. “It’s inclusiveness, it’s love, it’s ecumenicalism, it's reaching out to everybody." She noted that in these times it's important for religious leaders to listen and include others. After the Mass, a group of parishioners from the Church of St. Catherine of Sienna in Franklin Square stood across the street and waited in the snow and cold for a chance to greet the new bishop with music and chants of “Gloria” as he walked out of the cathedral. n
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Barres’s installation was marked by song on Jan. 31.
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A procession of church leaders accompanied Barres into St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, where he was installed, including the outgoing bishop, William Murphy, second in line.
Age: 56 Grew up in: Larchmont, N.Y. Education: Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.; Princeton University; New York University; and Catholic University of America. Also studied at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. Ordained a priest: Oct. 21, 1989 Previously: Bishop of Allentown, Pa. Appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre: Dec. 9, 2016, by Pope Francis Motto: Holiness and Mission Interests: Basketball. Played on the junior-varsity basketball team at Princeton.
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Hundreds of congregants gathered in prayer for Barres’s installation.
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Congratulations and welcome to Bishop John O. Barres, upon your installation as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre. We look forward to many years of fruitful collaboration and
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Bishop Barres’s Mass of Installation homily Editor’s note: Herein, we present parts of Bishop John Barres’s homily from his Mass of Installation on Jan. 31.
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e celebrate today the Memorial of St. John Bosco, the great 19th century mystic of Catholic education and the formation of young people. He once made a visit to St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome with his Salesian companions and humbly and serenely pointed to the niche in the Basilica where his statue would one day be placed after his canonization. Similarly today, St. John Bosco points us to the nature of love. He writes,“Where true love is the guiding principle, no one wants anything but the glory of God and the salvation of souls.” This simple sentence drives to the heart of the Second Vatican Council’s emphasis on the universal call to holiness and mission that is the logic of every person’s baptism. You and I are called to be men and women of communion and mission. We are called to be saints. The Letter to the Hebrews points to these saints as “a great cloud of witnesses” who decisively reject sin, who run the race on this earth, keeping their eyes fixed on the Face of Jesus, and who embrace the mysterious power of the Cross. This great cloud of witnesses at their moment in the crossroads of Church and world history were prophetic Heralds of Christ’s joy, mercy and healing presence. They were prophetic Heralds of unity and Eucharistic communion within the Church and prophetic Heralds of dynamic worldwide mission. They followed the spirit of Jesus in Mark 5 as he compassionately healed the daughter of Jairus and the woman afflicted with hemorrhages. And we, in our moment of history, do the same. In The Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis writes, “Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length.
placent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience Fitzgerald’s green light at the end of the Long Island dock symbolizes that the American dream of consumerism is actually a soul-stunting nightmare. That fading green light must surrender to another light, the cosmic red light of the sanctuary lamps that shine on the Tabernacles of our parish churches in Nassau and Suffolk counties and in every ope Francis part of the world — where we celebrate the real presence of and the Christ, the real presence American novelist Jesus of Jesus, Body, Blood, Soul and F. Scott Fitzgerald Divinity in the Eucharist. The cosmic power of the have something Catholic Mass and the Word of in common. God that streams from the body and blood of Christ are They both warn what make us men and us against the women of unity and commupursuit of ‘artificial nion rather than men and women who provoke shortparadises.’ sighted division and polarization. BishoP John The Holy Father emphasizes Barres that “each truth [of our Catholic faith] is better understood when related to the harmonious totality of the Christian message. In this context, all the truths are important and illumine one another.” So often when there is polarization, we have focused on one dimension of the splendor of truth but failed to see how it may be gloriously connected to other truths of our Catholic faith in a mystic symphony. n
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Bishop John Barres celebrated Mass at his installation. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness.” Pope Francis and the American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald have something in common. They both warn us against the pursuit of “artificial paradises.” Fitzgerald would warn us in “The Great Gatsby,” a novel fictionally set in this Diocese of Rockville Centre, of the trap of American consumerism. Pope Francis comes to similar conclusions at the beginning of “The Joy of the Gospel.” He writes, “The great danger in today’s world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a com-
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Bishop John Barres, far right, the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, was installed at one of the nation’s most historic cathedrals — St. Agnes in Rockville Centre.
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t is a massive, towering brick structure, set in the heart of downtown Rockville Centre. St. Agnes Cathedral — Long Island’s only Roman Catholic Cathedral — was constructed in 1937. Twenty years later, it became the seat of the newly created Diocese of Rockville Centre, and for the past 60 years it has served as a center of spirituality for the Island’s Catholic community in Nassau and Suffolk counties
"We establish the seat of the new diocese in the Village of Rockville Centre, and accordingly we raise this village to the dignity of an episcopal city. We fix the Chair of the Bishop in the parochial church dedicated to Saint Agnes, situated in the same village, which we therefore raise to the rank and dignity of a Cathedral Church." So decreed Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, titular archbishop of Laodicea in Phrygia and apostolic delegate of Pope Pius XII to the United States, in announcing the creation of the Diocese of Rockville Centre on May 25, 1957, according to a history published on the diocese’s website. Nearly six decades later, on a recent Friday afternoon, Monsignor Bill Koenig, the rector, or administrator, of St. Agnes Cathedral, gave this reporter a tour of what was once a local parish church. “I’m usually giving this tour for second-graders,” Koenig said with a laugh. Schools and religious education programs often come through. In the early 20th century, St. Agnes was a relatively small, local church, serving a bucolic community of farmers, fishermen and small business owners. In 1935, amid the Great Depression, the church’s fourth pastor, Monsignor Peter Quealy, for whom Quealy Place in Rockville Centre is named, undertook a large-scale construction project to create what would become St. Agnes Cathedral. Contractor Dominick Milone, of Rockville Centre, was tasked with building the Continued on page S-7
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Constructed in 1937, St. Agnes Cathedral has graced Rockville Centre’s landscape for the past 80 years. It has served as the Chair of the Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre since 1957.
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new church. At the time, St. Agnes was part of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which encompassed Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties. Amid the baby boom of the post-World War II era, when Long Island’s population exploded, church officials decided to carve out a new diocese — the Diocese of Rockville Centre, Koenig said. They made Rockville Centre the Seat of the new diocese — and St. Agnes, the Chair of the bishop — because the church was the largest on Long Island. Walter P. Kellenberg served as the very first bishop of the new diocese. His installation, on May 26, 1957, took place on a Sunday afternoon. A 10-car motorcade, escorted by two New York City motorcycle police, brought Kellenberg from this mother’s home on Mosholu Parkway in the Bronx through Queens. At the Queens-Nassau border, he was met by County Executive A. Holly Paterson, who escorted him to Rockville Centre, the diocese’s history states. Along the way from Queens, Kellenberg stopped at Blessed Sacrament and Holy Name of Mary churches in Valley Stream, Our Lady of Peace in Lynbrook and St. Raymond in East Rockaway. Kellenberg served as the diocese’s bishop through 1976. Since then, only four other men have been bishop: John R. McGann, from 1976 to 2000; James T. McHugh, 2000; William F. Murphy, from 2001 to 2016; and now, John O. Barres, who was installed as spiritual leader of Long Island’s Catholic community on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. n
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Stained-glass windows can be found throughout St. Agnes Cathedral.
DiD you know? The Bishop of Rockville Centre, whose Chair is stationed at St. Agnes Cathedral in the Village of Rockville Centre, regularly celebrates Mass at this center of worship. Bishop William Murphy, the diocese’s previous spiritual leader, held Mass there every first Sunday of the month at 11 a.m., in addition to Christmas and Easter services, according to Monsignor Bill Koenig, St. Agnes’s rector. On other days and at other times, Murphy celebrated Mass in local parishes. Bishop John Barres’s Mass schedule is still being decided, Koenig said, noting that the new bishop has expressed a fervent desire to get out into local parishes to meet Long Island’s Catholics, much as his predecessor had done. Scott Brinton
A statue of the Virgin Mary, at the entrance to St. Agnes Cathedral.
Monsignor Bill Koenig is the rector, or administrator, of St. Agnes Cathedral.
St. Agnes is Long Island’s only Roman Catholic cathedral, and one of the Island’s most historic houses of worship.
The St. Agnes bell tower soars above the Village of Rockville Centre.
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A walk through St. Agnes Cathedral is a walk through Long Island history
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St. Agnes Cathedral was full of well-wishers at the vespers prayer service on the night before Bishop John Barres's installation.
Young people, a focus of Bishop Barres By Brian KacharaBa
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t the vespers prayer service that Bishop John Barres held the night before his installation, he focused his more personal, 20-minute homily on children. Using the phrase “dear young people” four times, he told the youngsters that they were “critical to this moment of history” and were “being called by Jesus, St. Paul and Pope Francis to be missionary disciples.” “I am so grateful that you are here, and I look forward to meeting you, serving you and laying my life down for you as your shepherd and bishop,” he said before prompting the audience to applaud for the children in attendance. Upon leaving the church, each child received a card with a picture of Barres as a bishop on one side and as a Princeton University junior-varsity basketball player on the other. He told them they could control what would appear on their future cards, like having a job or serving as a priest or nun. He even fit social media into his homily, imploring the children to use them to spread God’s message. “You text and tweet 20 times faster than the rest of us, so we’re really counting on you,” he said.“We’ll be counting on you to use social media to witness to your love for Jesus and the mission of mercy of the Catholic Church.” n
At the prayer service, Barres gave out playing cards of sorts — with a photo of him as a basketball player at Princeton University and a photo of him as the bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Archbishop Christophe Pierre was among the participants in the prayer service. The prayer service was Barres’s first opportunity to address the Diocese of Rockville Centre from the pulpit.
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Fidelis Care is pleased to congratulate the Most Rev. John O. Barres on his installation as Fifth Bishop of Rockville Centre. As the New York State Catholic Health Plan, we are proud to share your commitment to serve local residents with compassion, dignity, and respect. Fidelis Care looks forward to working with you to build healthier communities, reach those most in need, and make a difference in the lives of individuals and families across the Diocese.
We are pleased to express our profound gratitude to the Most Rev. William Murphy for his years of dedication, including almost 16 years as the Bishop of Rockville Centre. Fidelis Care appreciates your vision, compassion, and commitment to service, in imitation of the compassionate and healing Christ. Please accept our warmest thanks and congratulations on your milestones of service.
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Bishop Barres’s vespers homily
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Bishop William Murphy, left in both photos, joined Bishop John Barres at a vespers prayer service before Barres's installation.
cross, die to our pride, our ego and our need to control. We die to an insular and self-referential perspective and the familiar refrain that it has always been done this way. We rise in grace and a new creativity for the new evangelization. n this eve of my Installation as We rise in holiness. We rise in our deepthe fifth Bishop of the Diocese est desires to promote the Glory of of Rockville Centre, together God and the evangelizing mission of we open ourselves to the missionary the church in our times. We remember Paul’s life-changing mysticism of St. Paul in our time and in our moment of church and world his- encounter with the risen Lord on the road to Damascus. tory. This very same risen Lord who In his first letter to the Thessalonians, wants to change our St. Paul expresses his lives with his love. He thanksgiving and joy for wants to cast fire on the this community of misearth and fire in our sionary disciples and he ear young souls. urges them to open people, the Tonight, we invite themselves up to an even deeper level of hurts and wounds that healing fire and light into the wounds we have charity, conversion and of life that you all experienced in life. We holiness. bring our own unique Dear young people, have already personal history to the present this evening in experienced at a light that streams St. Agnes Cathedral, and young age can be healing from the glorified young Catholics throughout the Diocese the birthplaces of wounds of the risen of Rockville Centre and great compassion Christ. This streaming light touches our around the world, you wounds, leads us to conare critical to this and service to version and helps us in moment of history. You others. turn to touch the wounds are being called by Jesus, of humanity. The wounds St. Paul and Pope Francis BishoP and traumas of our lives to be missionary disciand their impact on us ples. Young people, it is John Barres are complex, painful, your personal love for Jesus, your determination to open often mysterious, and not easy to ever your life to his will and the mission of completely and fully resolve in this life. mercy of his Catholic Church that will And yet the wounds in our souls and help carry his love and mercy into the psyches can be, with the power of the future. I am so grateful you are here, Holy Spirit, the birthplaces of worldand I look forward to meeting you, changing compassion, mercy and serving you, and laying my life down charity toward others. Dear young people, the hurts and for you as your shepherd and bishop. This evening, we Catholics of every wounds of life that you have already generation listen to God in silence as a experienced at a young age can be the church, and we discern together the birthplaces of great compassion and signs of our times and the movement service to others. Jesus is always with of the Holy Spirit motivating, animat- you to comfort, strengthen and inspire ing, driving us in history. This listening you. And so are we. Abbe Trochu, the great biographer to the Holy Spirit involves the logic of the Paschal Mystery. We embrace the of St. John Vianney, the patron of
Editor’s note: The following is part of the homily offered by Bishop John Barres at a vespers prayer service on the night before his installation.
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priests, connected the Curé of Ars’s dedication to hearing hours upon hours of confessions to St. Paul’s Road to Damascus conversion experience. Trochu writes,“Thus for countless souls the road to Ars became the road to Damascus (and life-changing conversion).” Mercy is the beating heart of the Gospel and the beating heart of the mission of the Catholic Church on Earth. Mercy is also the beating heart of our parish confessionals, our “combat field hospitals.” When we go to
confession, we penitents hear these revolutionary and life-changing words of absolution:“I absolve you from your sins, in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.” Dear young people, as your shepherd, I will be asking you over and over again to make frequent use of the sacrament of penance. Remember that when you enter the Door of Mercy of the confessional, you bring with you every member of your family, every classmate, every relationship in your past life, present life and future life. n
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The Diocese of Rockville Centre’s new bishop, John Barres, left, embraced the outgoing bishop, William Murphy.
What is a bishop? By Peter Belfiore pbelfiore@liherald.com
are the direct successors to • Only a joining of the Episcopal • Bishops Jesus’s original 12 Apostles. College or the pope himself can a bishop. The term bishop comes from the • Greek word episcopos, which overrule Dioceses grouped together into • larger unitsarecalled means overseer or superintendent. provinces, which are headed by metropolitan archBishops form the leadership of the • Catholic Church, with the bishop of bishops. Cardinal Timothy Dolan is Rome, the pope, serving as the chief.
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shepherd of a much larger flock than the parish priest.
of the dioceses in New York state. all the bishops of the • Together, church form the Episcopal College. Bishops are not only chosen for • faith in God, but also for their They are appointed to head each • diocese by the pope and have near their leadership skills. A bishop is the
A primer: The bishop’s coat of arms
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The bishop’s coat of arms, or episcopal heraldic achievement, comprises a shield, with its charges, or symbols, a motto scroll and ornaments. By heraldic tradition, the arms of the bishop of a diocese are joined side by side with the arms of his jurisdiction (in the case of Bishop John Barres, the Diocese of Rockville Centre). The jurisdictional arms appear on the shield’s left side, and those of the bishop, on the right. The arms of the Rockville Centre Diocese comprise four triangular sections in blue and gold, representing the two counties, Nassau and Suffolk, within its jurisdiction. In the upper center of these four sections is a lamb’s head to honor the virginal innocence of St. Agnes. Shells appear on the diocese's coat of arms. They pay homage to the 13 tribes of the Algonquian Indians who originally inhabited the area. The wavy silver border indicates that the diocese is an island, and the center of the design features three rocks to represent “Rockville Centre.” The rocks were first used by Pope Pius XII, who created the diocese in 1957. Bishop Barres’s half of the coat of arms begins with red and silver bars, recalling the bishop’s family surname, Barres. The bishop’s immigrant ancestor, Jacob Barres, came from Prussia and first settled in Lehigh County, Pa., in 1852. The blue eagle with a golden halo symbolizes St. John the Evangelist, honoring Barres’s baptismal name patron. Among the other symbols included on the bishop’s coat of arms is an ax, representing President Abraham Lincoln, whom Barres has said he admires greatly, and the bishop’s motto, “Holiness and Mission,” is written at the bottom of the shield. The motto is derived from a phrase in the final section of the encyclical, “Redemptories Missio: On the Permanent Validity of the Church’s Missionary Mandate,” written by Pope John Paul II in 1990. n Source: The Diocese of Rockville Centre
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Bishop John Barres
Herald Community Newspapers congratulates The Herald Newspap Bishop John are Barres publishing a fu color special sectio and welcomes him welcoming Bishop Jo BarresCentre. to the Diocese to Rockville
To the Rockville Centre Dioces Bishop Murphy Thank you for your years of service to the Dioces.
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RVC and celebratin the tenure of Bisho Murphy
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The region’s best defense against America’s deadliest cancer.
Winthrop has New York’s most comprehensive lung cancer treatment center. Patients have the best chance of defeating lung cancer successfully when all the most advanced tools are available in one place. Winthrop-University Hospital offers the most comprehensive lung cancer treatment program in the tri-state region to lead the fight against this deadly disease. Winthrop created Long Island’s first comprehensive low-dose CT screening program for early lung cancer detection. We offer state-of-the-art Navigational Bronchoscopy to find small tumors deep within the lungs. Winthrop is a national pioneer in immunotherapy trials, activating the body’s immune system to help fight cancer. We have the country’s most experienced CyberKnife center that ®
targets inoperable lung tumors and cuts radiation sessions from weeks to days.
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And Winthrop is one of only ten robotic epi-centers in the country for thoracic surgery – and the only one on Long Island. Robotic surgery is a more complete and precise minimally invasive procedure, often allowing patients to return home just days after lifesaving surgery. For more information or to schedule a consultation, call 1-866-WINTHROP, or go to winthrop.org.
MOLLOY COLLEGE WELCOMES
Bishop
John Barres The fifth bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre
Molloy College, an independent Catholic college based in Rockville Centre, Long Island, New York, was founded in 1955. The College serves a student population of approximately 4,800 undergraduate and graduate students. Molloy students can earn degrees in a variety of outstanding academic programs, including nursing, business, education, social work, music therapy and many more. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Amityville.
1-888-4-MOLLOY www.molloy.edu 1000 Hempstead Ave., PO Box 5002 Rockville Centre, NY 11571-5002
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