by Sr. Camille D'Arienzo

Joseph Sciame. Title: Vice President for Community Relations at St. John's University. Lives in: New Hyde Park, N.Y., and employed in Queens, N.Y., at the university, which is located in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Sister Camille: Mr. Sciame, you recently received Knighthood in the Order of Pope St. Sylvester. [Editor's note: The Tablet, the newspaper for the Diocese of Brooklyn, described this honor as "conferred upon Catholics and non-Catholics alike, who by their example in business, military, and society have lived exemplary lives. "] Were you surprised to receive this award from Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio?

Sciame: Yes, I was in fact "shocked," for based on my Catholic training in Catholic schools all my life, and my involvement in Church activities, I knew it was a most high honor. And then when I reviewed it in detail, I became more awed to a point where for two days I avoided talking to people, until I called my sister in Florida, where she and the family now reside, and I just started to get choked up and cried a bit. When the honor was presented on November 1, 2015 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn, all I could do was embrace the bishop in thanksgiving for all that I have been given. A Knight in the Order of St. Sylvester, Pope ... what an honor is what I could only think!