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Editor’s note: This month, the U.S. Catholic Church celebrates Respect Life Month with the theme “Every Life: Cherished, Chosen, Sent.” The following is a reprise from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2017 Respect Life Program. Additional Respect...
Sep 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun September 28, 2017
By Katherine Long | Editor Morgan Durfee wasn’t even planning to go to the 2014 Syracuse Catholic Women’s Conference. But a free ticket to the conference changed her plan — and her experience there changed her life. A transplant from Pennsylvania, the new Ithaca...
Sep 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun September 28, 2017
By Lisa Hall | Diocesan Director of the Office of Family/Respect Life Ministry October is Respect Life Month in the United States. Our diocese is blessed to have numerous opportunities to offer prayer, support, and action to help defend and protect the value of human...
Sep 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun September 28, 2017
By Catholic News Service ALBANY (CNS) — The director of pro-life activities for the New York State Catholic Conference applauded the state’s highest court for unanimously determining that the state constitution does not include a fundamental right to...
Sep 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun September 28, 2017
By Renée K. Gadoua | Contributing writer Father Severine Yagaza has ministered in the Syracuse Diocese for 20 years. But only twice in those two decades has the native of the Diocese of Tanga, Tanzania, celebrated a public Mass in Swahili. So, he was thrilled to...
Sep 27, 2017 | 2017 Archives, Sun September 28, 2017
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has endorsed an approach of “zero tolerance” toward all members of the church guilty of sexually abusing minors or vulnerable adults. Having listened to abuse survivors and having made what he...