Nov 16, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Latest news, Sun November 16, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor Bishop Robert J. Cunningham has written a new pastoral letter focusing on the role of the family and has announced a special Year of the Family to begin in the diocese on Dec. 3. “Over the past few months, I have been prayerfully reflecting...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
Basketball player Danielle Rauch headed to Michigan By Tom Maguire | Associate editor The University of Michigan fight song broke out in the Bishop Ludden High School library. Called “The Victors,” the tune is creative, exuberant, bold — like the...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
‘Best player I’ve ever coached,’ Cifonelli says By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Real rebounders never share. Basketball player Brianna Squier noticed a tendency of her teammate Azariah Wade. “You always steal my rebounds,” Squier said with mock outrage and...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor The Diocesan Pastoral Council gathered Nov. 4 at Bishop Grimes Jr./Sr. High School in East Syracuse for its final meeting of 2017. The DPC is composed of pastoral council and ministry representatives from across the diocese; parish...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
Syracuse and ESF students crank out sandwiches for charity By Tom Maguire | Associate editor So cerebral is the freshman that his brainstorm popped out in a matter-of-fact tone, as if he had just gotten another boring “A.” Syracuse University’s Jacob...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor Bishop Grimes Jr./Sr. High School in East Syracuse has been accepted as an International Baccalaureate® candidate school, the first step toward BG’s goal of being authorized as an IB World School. “The International Baccalaureate®...
Nov 15, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun November 16, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor Continuing a longstanding tradition of faith and service at Bishop Ludden Jr./Sr. High School in Syracuse, a new class of senior Eucharistic Ministers was commissioned at the school’s All Saints Day Mass Nov. 1. Father Dan Muscalino, who...
Nov 14, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Briefs, Sun November 16, 2017
JOHNSON CITY — St. James School students in grades 3 through 6 worked with Lockheed Martin employees to interact with the Lego WeDo learning tools Nov. 3. Students were introduced to robotics, engineering, programming, and general STEM teaching through a robot-based...
Nov 14, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Briefs, Sun November 16, 2017
By Katherine Long, Editor Sister Helena Burns, FSP, international speaker and digital communication expert, shared her media expertise with dozens of parish communicators Nov. 9 as the diocesan Office of Communications hosted “Becoming Digital Catholics,” a day of...