Apr 28, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
Father Christopher Seibt and Syracuse Catholic Television have teamed up on a special Year of Mercy series about the Holy Door at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse. Watch part one of the series and find links to more information below. Door of...
Mar 24, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — In a moving gesture of brotherhood and peace, Pope Francis washed the feet of several refugees, including Muslims, Hindus and Copts. Gestures, like Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, “speak louder than...
Mar 24, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis will celebrate the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper with young refugees in Castelnuovo di Porto, about 15 miles north of Rome. “Washing the feet of the refugees, Pope Francis is...
Jan 12, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Arms flailing, the exuberant and perhaps hyperactive Italian actor and comedian Roberto Benigni described Pope Francis as a masterful minister of God’s mercy, which is always active and always on the...
Jan 11, 2016 | 2016 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Being ministers of God’s mercy, church members overcome “prejudice and rigidity,” taking risks like Jesus did in order to heal and to save, Pope Francis said. In Jesus’ day, lepers were...
Dec 30, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — At the Vatican and on five continents in 2015, Pope Francis continued to encourage and demonstrate a style of evangelization that emphasizes walking with people, listening to them and showing them God’s...
Dec 28, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) —- Christmas is a reminder that through the birth of Christ, hope and peace are possible and that only through his grace can humanity find peaceful solutions to the world’s most difficult...
Dec 13, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Katherine Long Editor Bishop Robert J. Cunningham opened the local celebration of the Year of Mercy Dec. 13 as he opened the diocese’s Holy Door at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse. “In communion with the universal Church, this celebration...
Dec 11, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As reformed rules for marriage annulment cases came into effect, Pope Francis said the new norms are to be adhered to in order to help bring healing to failed marriages. With the release of two papal documents...
Dec 9, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs the extraordinary Holy Year to become an effective witness of God’s divine mercy, Pope Francis said. “The jubilee is a favorable time for all of us, so that in...
Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Junno Arocho, Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Concluding the feast of the Immaculate Conception and the opening of the Holy Door, Pope Francis prayed that through Mary, Christians may recognize the victory of divine mercy over sin. Amid tight...
Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
“We have to put mercy before judgment, and in any event God’s judgment will always be in the light of his mercy. In passing through the Holy Door, then, may we feel that we ourselves are part of this mystery of love, of tenderness. Let us set aside all fear and...
Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For a spiritual leader who denounces a world divided by walls, a church shuttered by cliques and hearts hardened to compassion, opening wide the Holy Door for the Year of Mercy will be a significant and...
Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
“The Holy Father is calling us during this extraordinary moment in the life of the Church to encounter God’s mercy and to extend it to others. Therefore, our focus in the Diocese of Syracuse during the Year of Mercy will be Mercy Encountered, Mercy...
Dec 8, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Junno Arocho, Esteves Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On a cloudy, damp morning, Pope Francis’ voice echoed in the atrium of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Open the gates of justice.” With five strong thrusts, the pope pushed open the...
Dec 3, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope Francis planned the Year of Mercy and the opening of the Holy Door, he did not mean to give the starting signal for a frenzied wave of pilgrims to Rome. More than call to sign up for an Eternal City package tour, the pope is...
Dec 3, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Sun December 3, 2015, Year of Mercy
By Pat Shea Associate editor The Diocesan Pastoral Council (DPC), composed of pastoral council and ministry representatives from across the diocese, gathered at Bishop Grimes Jr./Sr. High School in East Syracuse Nov. 21 for its final meeting of 2015. The meeting...
Dec 3, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Sun December 3, 2015, Year of Mercy
By Father Christopher Seibt Contributing writer Editor’s note: Pope Francis has declared an Extraordinary Jubilee, a Holy Year of Mercy, which will begin Dec. 8 and conclude Nov. 20, 2016. Father Christopher Seibt will explore various aspects of the jubilee in a...
Nov 30, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Papal visit to Africa, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service BANGUI, Central African Republic (CNS) — Pope Francis ended his visit to the violence-torn Central African Republic with cries for peace and pleas for a mercy that seeks and grants forgiveness. In a country where political and...
Nov 30, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service BANGUI, Central African Republic (CNS) — Put down the weapons of war and work for justice, Pope Francis urged the people of the Central African Republic. “Even when the powers of hell are unleashed, Christians must rise to the...
Nov 24, 2015 | 2015 Archives, Latest news, Year of Mercy
The Holy Door at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Syracuse was ceremonially sealed Nov. 22, in anticipation of its opening Dec. 13 in celebration of the Year of Mercy. The door, located in the Cathedral’s right transept, was hung with bunting in papal...
