PEOPLE OF FAITH
DIOCESAN ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bishop names new chancellor, pastors, parish life coordinators
Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has appointed Giovanni Virgiglio, diocesan superintendent of schools, to the position of diocesan chancellor. In addition, Bishop Scharfenberger announced several pastoral and administrative assignments.
REGIONAL V ENCUENTRO
Hispanic/Latino Catholics gather for Encuentro in Albany
The Albany Diocese was proud to be the site where the 2018 Regional V Encuentro was held June 22-24. The Regional V Encuentro was part of a series of meetings that are being held over the next four years, discerning how to better connect with and involve the Hispanic and …
THEOLOGY DEGREE
Doctor-turned-chaplain is new St. Bernard’s grad
After 25 years in medicine, Dr. Joseph Lalka, a retired family physician from Columbia County, is one of this year’s graduates from St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Albany, the Diocese’s graduate school for theology.
WALKING WITH JESUS THROUGH STREETS OF ALBANY
A DIOCESAN EUCHARISTIC PROCESSION led by Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger, celebrating the feast of Corpus Christi (the body and blood of Christ), invited Catholics from across the Diocese to gather last weekend at Albany's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.
CATHOLIC CHARITIES
Program teaches life skills for people fighting poverty
Rosanna Castro choked back tears as she delivered a speech to her fellow graduates May 16 at the diocesan Pastoral Center in Albany. Ms. Castro is one of 13 graduates from the second class of “Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World,” a program offered through Catholic Charities of the Diocese …
ST. MARY’S, ALBANY
Police memorial Mass includes dedication of ‘Father Lefebvre Way’
The 32nd annual memorial Mass for deceased members of the law enforcement community was offered May 8 at St. Mary’s parish in Albany by Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger. Police officers, law enforcement representatives and relatives from across New York State came to honor their fallen colleagues and loved ones.
MARCH SUPPORTS IMMIGRANTS
CATHOLICS PARTICIPATED IN a walk titled, "No Borders for Workers," held May 1 in Albany. The event included an outdoor interfaith prayer vigil and a walk to the city's Townsend Park to show solidarity with local immigrants.
MEMORIAL DAY
Help honor vets by placing flags on graves
On Memorial Day, fallen soldiers and war veterans who rest at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands will be honored with American flags placed on their graves. However, the tradition could become a thing of the past without more volunteers offering to help.
DOCUMENTARY
‘Heart of Nuba’ tells of Catholic doc’s service, selflessness
In the new documentary, “The Heart of Nuba,” an inspiring true story is told about Dr. Tom Catena, an American physician at Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Dr. Catena is a native of Amsterdam in the Albany Diocese.
FOR SICK AND MILITARY
Knotting cord rosaries keeps retiree busy
For more than a decade, Nancy Krosky of St. Clare’s parish in Colonie has been making rosaries entirely out of nylon cord — no metal or glass included. Each “bead” of the rosary is formed by creating several knots; even the cross is created entirely of knotted cord.
DAY IN THE LIFE
Catholic Charities caseworkers serve struggling population
Mokaya Bosire never planned to work in social services. A native of Kenya, he and his wife immigrated to the U.S. and, after five years of tedious post-graduate study in linguistics, he finally completed his dissertation on Kenyan languages.
60-YEAR JUBILARIAN
Sister Fran's 'wonderful life'
Most sixth-graders calculate the number of school days before summer vacation. Sister Francis Anne Gilchrist, CSJ, contemplated the number of days before she could become a nun.
LOCAL RESOURCES
Moore does more to boost region
Urban and regional planner Charles Moore mourns the loss of blue-collar jobs, corner stores and locally-owned businesses in the city of Rensselaer.He wants to resurrect these relics of his 1970s childhood.
PRIEST ANNIVERSARIES
Priests mark ordination anniversaries
REV. MATTHEW CYVAS, a native of Lithuania, was ordained there during the Russian occupation of Lithuania before the U.S. entrance into World War II and served at a parish from 1941-44. He studied in Rome after the war and eventually came to the Albany Diocese, serving at St. Joseph's in …
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