Apr 28, 2022 | Latest news
By Dc. Tom Cuskey | Editor “She was a saint!” More than a few people shared that sentiment following the news that Sister Mary Celestine McCann had passed away at the age of 94 on April 12 at the Franciscan Villa in North Syracuse. It was there where...
Sep 3, 2019 | Latest news, Local
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia Announces New Pastoral Appointments Syracuse, New York — Most Reverend Douglas J. Lucia, Bishop of Syracuse, has announced his first set of pastoral appointments in a letter written to all clergy of the diocese. In the letter, he...
Apr 21, 2018 | Bishop Cunningham, Latest news, My Place in the Sun
Saturday, April 21, was a joyous and blessed day for me and for our Diocese. I ordained Rev. Mr. Nathan Brooks to the order of deacon at St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore. The prepared text of the homily I preached on that occasion is below. Please join me...
Nov 26, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Over 3,000 Catholics and other people of faith signed a pledge Nov. 19 to express solidarity with all those seeking asylum in the United States and “promising to be good neighbors to those seeking refuge in our...
Nov 26, 2018 | Latest news
By Joseph Kenny and Jennifer Brinker | Catholic News Service HIGH RIDGE, Mo. (CNS) — Music played a big part in a Mass of remembrance for Jamie Schmidt Nov. 20 at St. Anthony of Padua Church in High Ridge, which was fitting because it had played a big part in...
Nov 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher | Catholic News Service The Archdiocese of Berlin took Pope Francis’s call to participate in World Day of the Poor to a new level by hosting a festive banquet for the city’s poor in St. Hedwig’s Cathedral. In honor of World...
Nov 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father Christian de Cherge felt compelled to put pen to paper and write down his testament. Father de Cherge,...
Nov 23, 2018 | Latest news
By Francis Njuguna | Catholic News Service NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) — Catholic bishops in South Sudan and Sudan appealed to the citizens of the two countries — including those in diaspora — to work harder for peace, telling them, “True peace can...
Nov 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Gina Christian | Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Thanksgiving should be a daily attitude rather than an annual observance, according to an American Indian leader in Pennsylvania. Chief Buffy Red Feather Brown, leader of the Southeastern Cherokee...
Nov 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Tom Tracy | Catholic News Service SOUTH MIAMI, Fla. (CNS) — Moved by their own good fortune at dodging recent hurricanes, a Miami community expressed their gratitude by sending a convoy of volunteers and donations to Hurricane Michael’s ground zero in...
Nov 22, 2018 | Latest news
By Katie Rutter | Catholic News Service INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — Jesus himself might have set the all-time food record when he miraculously served 5,000 men with a few loaves and fish. In this day and age, however, the Indianapolis Council of the Society of St....
Nov 21, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis visits Panama for World Youth Day in January, he will meet with young people not able to attend the festivities: some in jail and with some living with HIV. He also will...
Nov 21, 2018 | Latest news
By Joanne Fox Catholic News Service SIOUX CITY, Iowa (CNS) — Bishop R. Walker Nickless of Sioux City acknowledged the consternation and sadness of the faithful when details concerning the news of decades of sexual abuse of adolescents by a former diocesan priest...
Nov 21, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a video message to young men and women around the world, Pope Francis called on them to provoke an uprising of change by serving others. In helping those who are suffering, both young...
Nov 21, 2018 | Latest news, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis asked people to give thanks to God for the gift of so many men and women living a cloistered life of total dedication to prayer. “May these communities not lack affection, closeness...
Nov 21, 2018 | Latest news
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Nov 20, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service CHICAGO (CNS) — A gunman opened fire at a Chicago Catholic hospital Nov. 19, setting off a frantic scene that ended with three victims killed and the assailant dead, police said. The same day in suburban St. Louis, another gunman entered...
Nov 20, 2018 | Latest news
By Maureen Smith | Catholic News Service JACKSON, Miss. (CNS) — Bishop Joseph R. Kopacz of Jackson read the edict to open the sainthood cause for Sister Thea Bowman at Mass Nov. 18 at the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in downtown Jackson. The church was...
Nov 20, 2018 | Latest news
By Lise Alves | Catholic News Service RIO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — Cardinal Orani Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro blessed the sculpture “Homeless Jesus” Nov. 18, ending a weeklong series of events by Brazil’s Catholic Church to celebrate World Day of the...
Nov 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The gathering of U.S. bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12-14 on the heels of the clergy abuse scandal that hit the Catholic Church this past summer had echoes of the 2002 bishops’ meeting in Dallas,...
Nov 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Rhina Guidos | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — A small button that said “defend migrants” pinned on the jacket of El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz of Texas was one of the few reminders of a topic that dominated much of the 2017 fall meeting of...
Nov 19, 2018 | Latest news
By Jonathan Liedl | Catholic News Service EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (CNS) — Eight years ago, Tyler Blanski was a long-haired denizen of Uptown Minneapolis, a “spiritual, but not religious” Christian hipster. He painted houses in the summer, recorded music...
Nov 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — U.S. bishops admitted during a wide-ranging discussion during their fall general assembly that parishioners are angry and continually ask how a charismatic clergyman was able to rise through church...
Nov 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops arriving in Baltimore expected to make a statement with a series of steps meant to address a new clerical sexual abuse scandal in the church, among them a collection of standards of...
Nov 16, 2018 | Latest news
By Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — Near the close of the U.S. bishops’ Baltimore meeting, the church leaders turned their attention to the concerns of Catholic youths and young adults. Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport,...
Nov 15, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ “Pastoral Statement of U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons With Disabilities” is a cause for celebration, said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of...
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops gave their assent to the canonization effort launched for Sister Thea Bowman by the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi. The assent, on a voice vote, came Nov. 14, the third day of their fall...
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a pastoral letter against racism Nov. 14 during their fall general meeting at Baltimore. The document, “Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love...
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news
By Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a statement against racism Nov. 14 that declares “racist acts are sinful because they violate justice.” “They reveal a failure to acknowledge the human dignity...
Nov 14, 2018 | Latest news
By Dennis Sadowski | Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — A proposed commission that would air complaints against bishops in cases of sex abuse or harassment bears similarities to the model of diocesan review boards that hear such allegations against priests....
