USCCB leaders offer prayers, urge support for tornado victims
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the chairman of the USCCB domestic policy committee joined in expressing sorrow for those in Alabama mourning lives lost in a violent tornado that whipped through the region March 3.
Volunteers gift more than $2 million to MVHS since 2000
Pictured are Mohawk Valley Health System Volunteers Mirror Board Members (front row, left to right) Linda Kurtyka, Paula Fontaine, Michele Adams, (back row, left to right) Jane Gwise, Susan Warwick, Patricia Lupia, Cheryl Collins, Nancy Randall, Carole Nunziata, Grace...
U.S. Jewish groups react to Vatican decision to release Pius XII archives
By next year, Jewish people everywhere will know what World War II-era Pope Pius XII did — and didn’t — do to save Jewish lives during the worst ethnic cleansing in human history.
Many migrants surprised to find long wait to apply for asylum in U.S.
A trio of Honduran migrants arrived at the diocesan migrant shelter in this Mexican border city in the predawn hours, hoping to rest up before approaching the U.S. border and making an asylum claim. They received a rude surprise, however: More than 2,000 migrants already were waiting to apply for asylum in the U.S., and they were required to register their names on a waitlist managed by the shelter.
