Nov 7, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Submitted by Holy Family School Holy Family School in Fairmount now has its own “Little Free Library,” donated by a generous family for use by the school and parish. Stocked with a nice selection of books, including some for adults, the Little Free Library...
Nov 7, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Chaz Muth Catholic News Service YAKIMA, Wash. (CNS) — Seminarian John Washington was looking for a summer cultural experience as he prepared to end his academic year at Chicago’s Mundelein Seminary and he found it in an agricultural field in central...
Nov 7, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Judith Sudilovsky | Catholic News Service JERUSALEM (CNS) — U.S. Christian leaders expressed “grave concern” about the Trump administration’s decision to stop financial assistance to six East Jerusalem hospitals. Israeli doctors from most of...
Nov 7, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Life is for loving, not amassing possessions, Pope Francis said. In fact, the true meaning and purpose of wealth is to use it to lovingly serve others and promote human dignity, he said Nov. 7 during his...
Nov 7, 2018 | Sun November 8, 2018, Uncategorized
Nov 7, 2018 | Sun November 8, 2018, Uncategorized
By Catholic News Service ST. LOUIS (CNS) — Palliative and hospice care “address the needs of the whole person, which is the foundation of Catholic health care,” said Sister Carol Keehan, a Daughter of Charity, who is president and CEO of the Catholic Health...
Nov 7, 2018 | Sun November 8, 2018, Uncategorized
Submitted by | Mohawk Valley Health System UTICA — The Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Oct. 26 revealed the exterior design of its new, 373-bed, 672,000-square-foot hospital that will be the center of the integrated healthcare campus in downtown Utica. In...
Nov 6, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The National Review Board chairman called for changes to the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” to “make it a less ambiguous document” because despite nearly...
Nov 6, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The world will not have peace without people having mutual trust and respecting each other’s word, the Vatican said as it announced Pope Francis’ 2019 World Peace Day message would focus on...
Nov 6, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A group of Catholic high school seniors lobbying on Capitol Hill Nov. 5 knows there is a lot at stake in the midterm elections. They feel strongly about current issues, especially immigration and...
Nov 5, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Boston Globe and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspapers teamed up for an article published in both daily papers Nov. 4 that examined ways it said the U.S. bishops have failed to police themselves even...
Nov 5, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Dyann Nashton | Contributing writer UTICA — During the Nov. 4 Mass to conclude the yearlong bicentennial celebration of Historic Old St. John’s Church, Syracuse Bishop Robert J. Cunningham affirmed, “This 200 years is a benchmark … and a sign of God’s enduring...
Nov 1, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Through God’s word, Christians can taste the sweetness of his love like honey and also feel the sharp sting of a sword that purifies them from sin, Pope Francis said. “The double edge of...
Nov 1, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Saints are not just the well-known men, women and young people on the liturgical calendar, Pope Francis said on the feast of All Saints. They include simple people “from next door, our relatives and...
Nov 1, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Peter Rosengren | Catholic News Service SYDNEY (CNS) — Asia Bibi has been released from death row and prison in Pakistan and is now under heavy protective guard in a secret location with her family, reported a longtime Catholic missionary involved with...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Bishop Robert J. Cunningham confirmed 63 students on Oct. 21 at Holy Cross Church in DeWitt. Pictured counterclockwise from upper left are (including their Confirmation names) Erica Elizabeth Schwedes, Gabriella Gabriel Stickle, and Kristen Bernadette Soubirous...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Fayetteville — Immaculate Conception School celebrated the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The fifth-grade classes of Madelyn Duffy and Corey Stone prepared the liturgy for the Mass, did the readings, served as altar servers, and brought the gifts. The sixth-grade...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
OSWEGO — Trinity Catholic School in Oswego held its annual Halloween Carnival Oct. 26 in the school gym. Students and teachers dressed in costumes and played a variety of Halloween games, which were run by sixth-grade students and parent volunteers. One of the most...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Obituaries
Sister Janice Elizabeth O’Neil (Sister Elizabeth Michael), 89, died Oct. 24 in St. Peter’s Hospital, Albany. She had been a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for 66 years. Sister Janice was born on Aug. 6, 1929, in Saranac Lake, daughter of the late John and Isabel...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Editor’s note: Father Peter Major, MHM, who grew up in Skaneateles, lives at the Church of Our Lady of Pompei-St. Peter in Syracuse. A member of the Mill Hill Missionaries, he worked in Borneo, Kenya, and Sudan. These days, he figures that he is the missionary on...
