Apr 6, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun April 6, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor Two new policies have been established for priests in the diocese, limiting assignments as pastors to six years and requiring priests 80 and older to retire from the office of pastor or administrator. Bishop Robert J. Cunningham accepted the...
Apr 6, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun April 6, 2017
It’s a response to Pope’s encyclical, Pastor O’Brien says By Tom Maguire | Associate editor W hen the water is foul the devastation is severe. “Every day, unsafe water results in many deaths and the spread of water-related diseases, including those caused by...
Apr 6, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun April 6, 2017
Submitted by Tom Loughlin Jr. “For the last 25 years, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, we’ve never left Jesus alone for an hour!” — Elizabeth “Betty” Frank, OFS Utica’s St. Joseph-St. Patrick Church, home of the Syracuse Diocese Eastern Region...
Apr 6, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun April 6, 2017
Brady Faith Center exec and buddy recall epiphany at Cornell By Tom Maguire | Associate editor God took a look at the bone-cracking world of lacrosse and decided to do some mending. At Cornell University in the mid-1980s, lacrosse player Kevin Frank’s prayer was...
Apr 6, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun April 6, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor The light will be on for you at local parishes this Monday, April 10. Once again this year, churches across the diocese will be open from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the Monday of Holy Week, offering Catholics the opportunity to receive the...
Apr 4, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news, Sun April 6, 2017
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The first three refugee families from Syria welcomed by the Vatican left their temporary homes to start their new lives in Italy, and three new families took their places in Vatican apartments. The...
