Catholic Courier

Each year during Advent, Fairport's Church of the Assumption offers middle-school-age religious-education students an opportunity to help those who are less fortunate than themselves.

For several weeks in October members of the fifth- and sixth-grade girls' CYO soccer team at Brighton's Seton Catholic School wore pink to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and their support for a friend.

Father Scott Caton, a married father of six who was ordained by Bishop Matthew H. Clark on June 11, has been very busy since.

An instrumental jazz camp held Aug. 8-12 at Our Lady of Mercy High School challenged students to think critically about the structure of music, but also to improvise and have fun.

On May 21 five men graduated from Becket Hall, the diocesan residential program for those discerning priestly vocations. The program's director and two of the graduates talked about what living together at Becket has taught them.

Members of the Camp Stella Maris band, Popular Peninsula, talk about how they came together and what motivates them to perform.

Sung Kim of Master Kim's TaeKwonDo Institute and his assistants spent the morning of March 10 giving instruction in martial arts to third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Seton Catholic School in Brighton.

For more than 25 years the House of Mercy has been a beacon of hope for the needy and vulnerable in Rochester's poorest neighborhoods. House manager C.W. Earlsey talks about his experience there.