After a year with COVID-19, glimmers of hope and light emerge
A year after the coronavirus pandemic turned life upside down, wide vaccine availability and time’s passage spur assessments of losses and lessons learned.
At Catholic Charities, ‘We had to learn to adapt’
A staff member at Catholic Charities of Onondaga County’s men’s shelter in Syracuse works during the pandemic. (Photo provided) By Renée K. Gadoua | Contributing writer Michael Melara apologies for the awkward metaphor he uses to describe...
As Catholic school communities faced pandemic challenges, ‘nobody gave up’
Teacher Mary Heintz leads her class of first-graders at Notre Dame Elementary School in Utica Sept. 14. (Photo courtesy Sondra Nassar) By Katherine Long | Editor Last March, all 22 of the diocese’s Catholic schools, like their public counterparts, closed...
A year of loss and challenges; an opportunity for reflection and growth
The Ranieri siblings, including one-month-old Salvatore, are pictured on the Solemnity of St. Joseph. (Photo courtesy Nina Ranieri) The Catholic Sun asked members of the Syracuse Diocese to share their experiences of life during the coronavirus pandemic....
Public Masses resume on feast of Pentecost with prayers for rebirth
Parishes around the Diocese of Syracuse resumed public Masses May 30 and 31, the first public liturgies celebrated since Bishop Douglas J. Lucia suspended them March 16 amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Bishop Lucia asks faithful to combine ‘expression of faith with prudential sense’ as public Masses resume
Bishop Douglas J. Lucia wears a face mask as he prepares to celebrate a Holy Hour at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception May 3. (Sun photo | Chuck Wainwright) Bishop Douglas J. Lucia announced last week that public Masses in the Diocese of Syracuse were...
