PEOPLE OF FAITH
TEEN ACTIVIST
For Chris, piano competition is a side note
Whether it's studying classical piano or protesting society's injustices, Chris Bangert-Drowns, a senior at Albany High School, tends to dive in head-first.
COBLESKILL CONTRIBUTION
Project just part of involvement in faith
Megan Krisowaty's confirmation service project at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Cobleskill sprang out of visits to a nursing home. Megan and her confirmation sponsor, her grandmother, noticed that a lot of disabled residents appeared uncomfortable and sore from inactivity, so Megan hand-sewed 10 lap pillows of foam and …
ST. CLARE'S, COLONIE
Leadership roles helped teen find her faith
Victoria Schnurr is learning how to mesh her faith with the rest of her life - even if some people think that isn't the coolest thing for a high-school student to do.
CHANGING OF GUARD
A year before retirement, Bishop looks down the road
In a year, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard hopes his successor will "hit the ground running" - but the current bishop hasn't stopped running yet himself. "I'm responsible for the governance of the Diocese until next year," he explained a day after his 74th birthday, which also marked the beginning of …
SAINT ROSE PANEL
College students talk about why they drift away from faith
Navigating the college waters is a tricky proposition for Catholic students: In some circles, they're judged for not being pious enough; in others, they're criticized for praying, attending Mass or even talking about faith.
SIENA COLLEGE
Interfaith colloquium educates on Vatican II
The 1965 document on non-Christian religions that came out of the Second Vatican Council reversed much of the anti-Semitism present in the Christian world then - but that progress is still sometimes threatened, said speakers at a recent colloquium in Loudonville.
LAYMAN'S VOWS
Four decades as a secular missionary
Thomas Grogan's parents forbade him from entering religious life in the 1960s, so the young Mechanicville man pursued what he considered the next best thing: membership in a secular institute, a group of laypeople who live by religious tenets.
SISTER MAUREEN JOYCE CENTER
Soup kitchen benefits from teens' garden and chickens
Donating their savings to the Sister Maureen Joyce Center soup kitchen in Albany would have been too easy for two teenaged brothers from Menands - so they decided to grow vegetables for the center's meals and start an egg delivery program to raise extra money.
WORKS OF MERCY
Pro-lifer runs Amsterdam center and more
Even the staunchest pro-life Catholic tends to know a lot more about abortion and contraception than about life issues at the other end of the spectrum: euthanasia, hospice practices, living wills, organ donation or the definition of brain death.
FIGHTING IRISH
Notre Dame fan cheering from Menands motherhouse
When TV executives predicted that college football's Bowl Championship Series title game would attract a record number of viewers, maybe they sensed that Sister Catherine Marie McGranary, DC, would be enlisting a pack of her fellow senior sisters to watch.
PRO-LIFE PILGRIMS
Diocese represented at March for Life
Catholics who traveled from the Albany Diocese to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Jan. 25 March for Life say they were inspired and amazed by the sheer number of people gathered there, especially youth and clergy.
CLINIC PLANNED
Catholic doc to teach and treat women with fertility issues
Dr. Jan Patterson was practicing family medicine when she converted to Catholicism and decided to follow the Church's teachings on contraception and abortion - much to the chagrin of her superiors. She lost her job after she made a habit of refusing to prescribe birth control.
STATE RECORD
Longest-married couple dancing for 75 years
Walter and Anna Mae Patrick met as teenagers at a Lansingburgh dance hall in 1935. He was a grade below her at St. Patrick's School in Troy. "I liked dancing with him," Mrs. Patrick told The Evangelist last week. "He became my steady boyfriend. We've been dancing ever since."
NEW PERSPECTIVE
Siena student president has an eye toward change
Cassy Jane Werking, a 21-year-old parishioner of Christ Our Light Church in Loudonville, broke a pattern at Siena College last year when she became the first female Student Senate president in two decades.
MEDICAL MISSIONARY
Native of Diocese describes life as a doctor in Sudan
Dr. Tom Catena ignores his frequent bouts of malaria, his lack of time off and the rarity of his trips home to the Albany Diocese from Sudan, where he's served as a medical missionary since 2008.
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