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Schools slate events to celebrate Catholic Schools Week 2012 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
Life as a prophet, king, priest
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
TV Mass enjoys long tenure
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
Newark teen touts NCYC experience
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
Laity lends sacramental aid
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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