Faith & Family
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Courier photo by Mike Crupi
- Schools slate events to celebrate Catholic Schools Week 2012
- January 31, 2012
Students at Catholic schools around the Diocese of Rochester have planned a wide range of activities for the annual observance of Catholic Schools Week, which is sponsored by the National Catholic Education Association and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and runs from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5 this year.
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- Life as a prophet, king, priest
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- December 8, 2011
- By Amy Kotlarz/Catholic Courier
During Advent, we hear from Isaiah and other Old Testament prophets a message of hope for the arrival of a Messiah. But prophecy didn’t end in ancient Israel.
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- Local authors, musicians produce works
- December 8, 2011
The following individuals from the Diocese of Rochester have recently produced books and music CDs:
* Greece Athena High School varsity basketball coach Jim Johnson, a parishioner of Greece's Our Mother of Sorrows Parish, and Catholic Courier Staff Writer Mike Latona cowrote A Coach and a Miracle: Life Lessons from a Man who Believed in an Autistic Boy. The book retells the story of the night of Feb. 15, 2006, when
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- TV Mass enjoys long tenure
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- December 7, 2011
- By Mike Latona/Catholic Courier
ROCHESTER -- A regal church edifice it was not.
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- Newark teen touts NCYC experience
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- December 6, 2011
- By Cyndi J. Coleman/Guest Contributor
National Catholic Youth Conference -- this is a name that does not, and cannot, describe how amazing this experience truly is.
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- Laity lends sacramental aid
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- December 5, 2011
- By Mike Latona/Catholic Courier
Eileen Walsh had a brief yet moving encounter with a distraught woman while bringing Communion to nursing-home residents a number of years ago.
"I said, 'Why are you crying?'" Walsh recalled. "She said, 'Eileen, I used to go to Mass every day and now it's once a month. It breaks my heart.'"
For
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