Nov 1, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Peter Rosengren | Catholic News Service SYDNEY (CNS) — Asia Bibi has been released from death row and prison in Pakistan and is now under heavy protective guard in a secret location with her family, reported a longtime Catholic missionary involved with...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Bishop Robert J. Cunningham confirmed 63 students on Oct. 21 at Holy Cross Church in DeWitt. Pictured counterclockwise from upper left are (including their Confirmation names) Erica Elizabeth Schwedes, Gabriella Gabriel Stickle, and Kristen Bernadette Soubirous...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Fayetteville — Immaculate Conception School celebrated the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. The fifth-grade classes of Madelyn Duffy and Corey Stone prepared the liturgy for the Mass, did the readings, served as altar servers, and brought the gifts. The sixth-grade...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
OSWEGO — Trinity Catholic School in Oswego held its annual Halloween Carnival Oct. 26 in the school gym. Students and teachers dressed in costumes and played a variety of Halloween games, which were run by sixth-grade students and parent volunteers. One of the most...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
Editor’s note: Father Peter Major, MHM, who grew up in Skaneateles, lives at the Church of Our Lady of Pompei-St. Peter in Syracuse. A member of the Mill Hill Missionaries, he worked in Borneo, Kenya, and Sudan. These days, he figures that he is the missionary on...
Oct 31, 2018 | Briefs, Uncategorized
As he serves the people, Father Bassano also takes note of nature By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Father Michael Bassano, MM, has resumed his missionary work in South Sudan at his usual brisk pace. Father Bassano grew up in Binghamton and was ordained...
Oct 31, 2018 | Latest news, Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized
By Tom Maguire | Associate editor Diane Pare discovered the deep potential of a little word: “help.” “I have been involved in various ministries over the past 20 years,” she said, “starting when my pastor, Father Joseph Barker at St. Patrick’s Church in...
Oct 31, 2018 | Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized, Year of the Family
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse will once again observe National Vocation Awareness Week November 4-10, 2018. The annual observance is an opportunity for parishes to foster a culture of vocations for the priesthood, diaconate, and religious life. This year’s...
Oct 31, 2018 | Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized
By Father Jason C. Hage | Vocation Promotion Team member Editor’s note: Last year, vocation promotion efforts in the diocese expanded to a team approach, with several priests taking on new initiatives in collaboration with the Vocations Office. Father Hage wrote...
Oct 31, 2018 | Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized
By Father John Manno | Director, Office of Seminarian Formation Editor’s note: Father John Manno, pastor of Holy Family Church in Syracuse, is the director of the Office of Seminarian Formation. Here, Father Manno offers a look at the process of application and...
Oct 31, 2018 | Sun November 1, 2018, Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The seminarians of the Diocese of Syracuse offered the following fun facts for profiles featured at vocations-syracuse.org. Rev. Mr. Nathan Brooks Will be ordained to the priesthood on June 1, 2019, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception,...
Oct 29, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Robert Duncan | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994. Cardinal Agostino Cacciavillan, who served as pro-nuncio to...
Oct 11, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Maryangela Roman Catholic News Service MILWAUKEE (CNS) — Champagne corks popped in the visiting clubhouse Oct. 7 as the Milwaukee Brewers celebrated their sweep of the Colorado Rockies, advancing to the National League Championship Series. Back home in...
Oct 10, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
A man who coached track and cross-country athletes at local schools, including Bishop Ludden Jr./Sr. High School in Syracuse, has been arrested on child pornography charges. Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick announced the arrest at a press...
Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians must do more to make sure the media, especially social networks, are places of dialogue and respect for others, rather than instruments for highlighting differences and increasing divisions, said...
Sep 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Christian Brothers Academy President Brother Joseph Jozwiak, FSC (center), with campaign co-chairs (left to right) Chuck O’Neil, ’65, and John Marshall, ’67. – photo provided Submitted by Christian Brothers Academy Christian Brothers Academy announced Sept. 18...
Sep 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., Sept. 13 and has instructed Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore to investigate allegations that Bishop Bransfield sexually harassed adults. Bishop Bransfield is...
Sep 6, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, US & World
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing Sept. 4 on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump named Kavanaugh, a Catholic, July 9 to succeed 81-year-old...
Sep 6, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, US & World
By Kelly Sankowski Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — During the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 5, U.S. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh said his experience serving the homeless with...
Sep 5, 2018 | Bishop Cunningham, Latest news, Uncategorized, US & World
Bishop Robert J. Cunningham delivers his homily during a Mass to mark World Refugee Day June 20. (Sun photo | Katherine Long) Most Rev. Robert J. Cunningham has asked every parish to celebrate a Mass on the Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows (September 15 and 16, 2018)...
Aug 15, 2018 | Uncategorized, Uncategorized
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, is seen during the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Jan. 18. The cardinal said June 20 he would no...
Aug 2, 2018 | Uncategorized, Uncategorized
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, concelebrate a Mass of thanksgiving in 2010 in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. Pope Francis accepted the resignation from the College of Cardinals...
May 15, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, US & World
By Patrick Downes Catholic News Service HONOLULU (CNS) — In addition to offering prayers, the Catholic Church is stepping into action on behalf of hundreds of residents displaced from a fierce and unpredictable volcanic eruption. Members of Sacred Heart Parish...
Apr 23, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Mark Judge Catholic News Service NEW YORK (CNS) — Look! Up in the sky! It’s Superman! And he’s 80! The year 2018 marks eight decades since the first appearance of Superman in Action Comics No. 1. It also sees the arrival of issue 1,000 of the...
Apr 19, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Kristi Anderson Catholic News Service ALEXANDRIA, Minn. (CNS) — The energetic spirit of the 200-plus people who gathered in Alexandria April 13 and 14 for the Region VIII encuentro captured the heart of St. Cloud’s Bishop Donald J. Kettler. The event...
Apr 1, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Leading a prayer to God for the grace to feel ashamed and repentant for so many sins in the world, Pope Francis highlighted the hope that always comes from Jesus. There is hope “because your church, holy and...
Mar 29, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, US & World
By Katherine Long | Editor It is no secret that we here at the Sun LOVE women religious. Whether they’re ministering in a parish or at a school or in a loving home for the dying or to “outcasts” or to the whole internet at large, we are constantly...
Mar 8, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, US & World
By Catholic News Service MINNEAPOLIS (CNS) — Events around the country are marking National Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14. It’s the fifth annual celebration of women religious taking place during National Women’s History Month. The weeklong...
Mar 7, 2018 | Uncategorized, Uncategorized
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — Intentionally causing a patient’s death is different from accepting that a patient is dying, then providing emotional and spiritual support and pain relief, said a doctor who practices and promotes palliative care....
Feb 20, 2018 | Latest news, Uncategorized, Uncategorized, US & World
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — After the Senate failed Feb. 15 to garner the 60 votes needed to move a bill forward to protect the “Dreamers,” officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced a “National Catholic Call-In...
