PEOPLE OF FAITH
YOUNG ADULTS
Youth minister heads to Australia
Lauren Numrich, 24, is so open to God's will in her life that she flew to Australia this week for a year-long peer youth ministry service program - and had no idea where she would live or whether she'd even have internet access.
WOMEN RELIGIOUS
Age 95 and still 'faithful to the life'
When Sister Victoria Nolan, DC, entered her religious community at the age of 18, she never imagined her ministry would take her all over the eastern U.S., in roles ranging from teacher to nursing administrator to racial affairs director to hospital chaplain.
YOUNG ADULTS
College student debates future: music? marriage? priesthood?
When Sam Bellafiore was in third grade, he "played Mass" using Ritz crackers as hosts and his brother as an altar server. He wanted to be like his pastor at St. Vincent de Paul parish in Albany. He also kept a holy card featuring Blessed Pope John Paul II in …
PRIEST'S NEW BOOK
'Naked as a Jailbird' offers raw narrative of ministry
"What an eye-opener this place was for me, this hideous, overcrowded, 19th-century jail that has been condemned by three major inspection groups since the time of the Civil War," Rev. Richard Shaw wrote of a Boston correctional facility.
JOSHUA BOOKS
Priest-author and Atlanta developer share idea: revitalizing inner cities
Great minds think alike: After an Atlanta real estate developer and philanthropist revitalized a crime-ridden neighborhood, he discovered that Rev. Joseph Girzone, a retired priest of the Albany Diocese, had described many of the same ideas and techniques in one of the books in his popular "Joshua" series.
TABLE OF THE LORD
Televised Mass moves to new time, channel
The Albany Diocese's weekly televised Mass, "Table of the Lord," will move to a new time and station March 2.
RCIA PROCESS
Profile of a new Catholic
Each year, hundreds of people add their names to the Book of the Elect at Eastertime, signaling their desire to join the Catholic Church. This year, one of those new Catholics will be an Oneonta woman who spent years searching for a Christian church in which to be baptized.
ADULT EDUCATION
Spring Enrichment courses boost faith
At the annual Spring Enrichment gathering, May 12-15 at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, there will be 13 major presentations, a dozen speakers, three bishops, two panel discussions and 125 courses and workshops to teach Catholics about their faith.
TROY LECTOR
Reading in Braille at St. Michael's
Everyone was surprised when Frances McDoal asked to be a lector at her new parish of St. Michael the Archangel in Troy - even her.
GUIDE TO CEREMONY
What happens at a bishop's ordination?
Next Thursday, April 10, a key event will take place at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany: the ordination of Bishop-elect Edward B. Scharfenberger as the new Bishop of Albany.
CLERGY PROFILE
Senior priest has had a colorful life
After switching college majors every year, practicing journalism at home and abroad during active duty with the Navy Reserve, traveling the world and earning a master's degree in English, Rev. Larry Asma, CM, faced a crossroads in the 1970s.
SENIOR PRIEST
Ahoy: It's Father Leskovar, Maritime Ministry volunteer
Rev. Richard Leskovar has played ping-pong with Danes, dined on authentic cuisine with people from China and celebrated Masses for Indian and Filipino Catholics - without leaving Albany.
HERALDRY
Bishop's complex coat of arms
"There are many levels of meaning in our symbolism," Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger told The Evangelist, so the coat of arms he chose is more than meets the eye.
IN PROFILE
A Bishop 'of the people'
A bishop's daily schedule is packed with Masses and meetings, phone calls and confirmation ceremonies, answering correspondence and dealing with crises. But Catholics in the Albany Diocese may also glimpse their new Bishop dishing up dinner at a soup kitchen.
MUSIC IN EUROPE
Teen will go 'on tour' this summer
A teenager from St. Joseph's parish in Greenwich has been chosen to play alto saxophone during a cultural performance tour of western Europe for high school and college-aged musicians.
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