Features
- January 31, 2012
- Schools slate events to celebrate Catholic Schools Week 2012
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Courier photo by Mike Crupi
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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- December 8, 2011
- Life as a prophet, king, priest
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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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- December 8, 2011
- Local authors, musicians produce works
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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- December 7, 2011
- TV Mass enjoys long tenure
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ROCHESTER -- A regal church edifice it was not.
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- December 5, 2011
- Laity lends sacramental aid
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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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- November 28, 2011
- Parishes plan Advent activities
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The following parishes have informed the Catholic Courier of their upcoming Advent activities:
* Collection jars have been placed at the entrances to Holy Family Church, 85 North St., Auburn. The parish is collecting spare change to benefit its Lunches with Love program. Proceeds from this collection will be presented at Mass shortly after Christmas on the Feast of the Holy Family. Each year the parish also puts
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- November 18, 2011
- Brockport community gathers to give thanks
BROCKPORT -- The responses were as varied as the people gathered for an interfaith celebration of gratitude.
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- September 16, 2011
- Video games offer challenges, opportunities for Catholic families
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NEW YORK (CNS) -- Since Nintendo first captured the hearts, minds and thumbs of a generation of children in the 1980s, the video game industry has steadily increased in size, revenue, cultural influence and sophistication.
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