by | Apr 22, 2025 12:18 pm | Comments (7)
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The new smoke shop at 837 Whalley.
Bart Simpson lights up inside Vape R Us.
“Vape R Us” can stay put at the entrance to Westville Village despite the city’s new zoning restrictions — as the Elicker administration goes after the smoke shop for marketing tobacco products to children.
by | Apr 22, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (2)
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers: "It's time to stand on the core values that have always powered our city's fight for justice."
President Donald Trump poses an urgent threat to basic rights. So does the poverty that has flourished since long before Trump took office.
New Haven must be ready to fight both.
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers conveyed that message by way of the alders’ annual Black and Hispanic Caucus State of the City address on Monday night.
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by | Apr 21, 2025 4:22 pm | Comments (3)
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St. Mary's Rev. Ryan Lerner: Pope Francis "was a voice speaking bluntly to issues we’re facing -- an end to war and bloodshed, of peace, and especially denouncing sins against the most vulnerable."
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Pope Francis received Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly in a private audience at the Vatican on Dec. 20. Kelly: Pope "supportive of our efforts to help Catholic men be better husbands and fathers."
The Church should be like a field hospital for the wounded of the world. And pastors who guide in Jesus’s name should have the smell of the flock they lead — that is, they should be among and with the people.
Those inspirational paraphrases from the teachings of Pope Francis were very much on the mind of Rev. Ryan Lerner on a sunny Monday morning as he prepared to hear confessions and lead mass at the St. Mary’s Church on Hillhouse Avenue, just hours after the pope’s death.
