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By Tom Maguire | Associate editor While excavation equipment hummed in the background, Marie Walsh bubbled over the groundbreaking for an apartment complex in Cortland. “Wow, this is a big day for us, a very big day for us,” Walsh, executive director of Catholic...
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By Tom Loughlin, Jr. | Contributing writer The spirit of hometown saint Marianne Cope permeated St. Joseph and St. Patrick Church in Utica May 1 as Bishop Robert J. Cunningham presided over a Mass to celebrate the parish’s 175th anniversary. Bishop Cunningham quoted...
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Submitted by the Office of Communications SYRACUSE — The Conventual Franciscans of Our Lady of the Angels Province and the Diocese of Syracuse are pleased to announce the appointment of Father Gerry Waterman, OFM Conv., as Catholic chaplain at Syracuse University. His...
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Submitted by Shannon DeAngelo BINGHAMTON — Under the direction of Jan and Shannon DeAngelo, 35 students and 20 adults headed to the Big Apple April 23 for a whirlwind of professional Broadway training and Broadway shows. “The goal of this weekend was educating our...
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By Michelle Francl-Donnay | Catholic News Service “Dear Pope Francis” by Pope Francis. Loyola Press (Chicago, 2016). 76 pp., $11.55. The car was always the place for the hard conversations when my sons were young. The questions would come from the back seat when I...
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By Renée K. Gadoua | Contributing writer Father Daniel Berrigan, the anti-war Jesuit priest who grew up in Syracuse, is being remembered as a poet and prophet who challenged the Catholic Church and the country to follow the Gospel’s call for peace and justice. The...