Sep 28, 2022 | Featured, Local
Part of the Respect Life team, from left: program coordinator Jennifer Brown, director Lisa Hall and program coordinator Kristin Dievendorf. By Dc. Tom Cuskey, Editor 2022 will go down in history as the year that Roe v. Wade was overturned, and the renewal of a...
Sep 14, 2022 | Featured, Local
HOPE Appeal 2022 campaign is underway By Dc. Tom Cuskey | Editor “You are the light of the world. Your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father” (Matthew 5:14,16). These words of Jesus captured in Matthew’s...
Sep 2, 2022 | Featured, Local
Catechetical leaders learn more about their ministry at workshop on Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The next step after conversion is discipleship, a form of action, says Bishop Douglas J. Lucia. He says: “Discipleship is...
Aug 17, 2022 | Featured, Local
Bishop Lucia hosts annual vocations picnic By Eileen Jevis | Staff Writer Some of those present at the Bishop’s annual vocations picnic were looking for a purpose in life. Some were contemplating answering God’s call. Some were eager while others were hesitant....
Jun 8, 2022 | Featured, Local
With no priestly ordinations this year, Holy Hour for Vocations trusts in the Lord By Tom Maguire | Associate editor One is three years from his goal; the other has been at it for almost 70 years. Seminarian Joseph Ryan and Sister Colette Walter were among the...
Jun 4, 2022 | Brief - photos, Featured, Local
June 4, 2022 Vigil of Pentecost Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Risen Lord, Pentecost is all about stepping out and putting into practice the words of the Risen Jesus found in Acts 1:8 before his ascension into heaven: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit...
Jun 1, 2022 | Featured, Local, Uncategorized
Editor’s note: Over the next few weeks we will be publishing brief profiles on each of the participating jubilarians. Sister Katie Eiffe, the diocesan Vicar for Religious, shares that “it was inspiring to read their reflections on their religious life!” She adds that...
May 11, 2022 | Featured, Local
This is the third of four installments in a series on the work of the Office of Catechesis and the different models of catechetical instruction in the Diocese. By Dc. Tom Picciano | Contributing Writer “We teach our children that Jesus Christ is in everyone. How we...
May 4, 2022 | Featured, Local
By Dc. Tom Cuskey | Editor Mom. The dictionary should provide synonyms for this three-letter title that include, in alpha order: advisor, advocate, caregiver, cleaner, confidant, cook, defender, disciplinarian, fan, friend, guardian, guide, lover, negotiator, nurse,...
Apr 28, 2022 | Featured, Local
By Andrea Slaven | Contributing writer Editor’s note: Andrea Slaven, M.Ed.; M.A. Instructional Technology, is the Director of Catechesis for the Diocese of Syracuse. This is the first of a four-article series focusing on the Office of Catechesis and the different...
Apr 20, 2022 | Featured, Local
Family to move into late priest’s home; couple donates $50,000 for repairs By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The house with “good bones” now fills out with a refugee family. Father Anthony Keeffe, who died last year, bequeathed his family home to All Saints Parish to...
Apr 12, 2022 | Featured, Local
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Risen Lord, “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad!” These words of the Psalm response for Easter Day invite you and me to rejoice in the great treasure that is the Easter event in our lives as Christians, but...
Apr 7, 2022 | Featured, Local
Catholic Charities to use three-acre parcel for $12.85M project to help homeless By Tom Maguire | Associate editor A former commercial building in Syracuse will take on a steadfastly welcoming air. “We’ve never turned anybody away at Catholic Charities and as long as...
Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, Local
Sarah’s Guest House offers a respite during crises By Eileen Jevis | Staff writer It happens in an instant. Your life is turned upside down by a crisis or illness that changes your priorities and you call on God for strength and help. You wonder where you’ll find the...
Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Local
By Tom Loughlin, Jr. For the Irish in Utica and elsewhere, the pipes and the drums of this year’s celebration of the patron saint of Ireland have faded into silence, but in hearts and minds of the Ukrainians in Utica and worldwide, other drums, the drums of war, are...
Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Local
By Eileen Jevis | Staff writer What is celebrated throughout CNY with hoolies and toasts, and with grand parades in the diocesan cities of Binghamton, Syracuse and Utica, started out in a much more reverent fashion. For over 1,000 years, the people of Ireland observed...
Mar 9, 2022 | Featured, Local
Forty-two individuals took an important step toward initiation into Christ and his Church on Sunday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception during the Rite of Election. Father Christopher Seibt, director of the diocesan Office of Liturgy and RCIA (Rite of...
Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, Local
By Eileen Jevis | Staff writer On Sunday, Feb. 27, close to 200 people gathered at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse to participate in a holy hour for peace. Parishioners throughout the Catholic diocese joined thousands of other people of all...
Feb 25, 2022 | Featured, Local
Inspired by God’s grace, artist-deacon will publish his comical drawings in newspaper By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Cartoonist Deacon Dan Reynolds has punned on his own name (“Reynolds Unwrapped”), so why can’t he have some fun with Bible notables. Asked what they...
Feb 9, 2022 | Featured, Local
Couples to mark World Marriage Day at Mass with bishop By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The stone deer in their yard symbolizes the permanence of the couple’s marriage. Jane and Ted Plis, of Syracuse, will mark their 69th wedding anniversary on April 25. Unlike the...
Jan 26, 2022 | Featured, Local
Catholic Schools Week approaches with news about $500,000 grant By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The tot lullabied the adult. Recently at St. John the Evangelist School in Binghamton, a girl in the TK (transitional kindergarten) class named Stella came up and asked...
Jan 19, 2022 | Featured, Local
St. Marianne Cope saved more lives than we know “Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse.” —Maya Angelou; American author, poet and civil-rights activist By...
