An online encyclopedia of all Catholic churches, past and present, located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester. Features photographs and historical information.
The Buffalo, Rochester, and Pittsburg Railroad connects the three large cities named in its title, and serves one of the important agricultural, manufacturing, and mining districts of the States of New York and Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Railroad, one of the great national trunk lines, with ...
ST. THOMASwas born of noble parents at Aquino in Italy, A.D. 1226. At the age of nineteen he received the Dominican habit at Naples, where he was studying. Seized by his brothers on his way to Paris, he suffered a two years captivity in their castle of Rocca-Secca; but neither the...
On a mild, slightly overcast June Saturday in 1899, the industrial city of Newark, New Jersey, was alive with excitement. Large numbers of men, women and children, from across the state’s five northernmost counties arrived on trains, trolleys, and horse-drawn coaches to join the inhabitants ...
All other churches aforesaid are hereby denied the use of other missals, which are to be wholly and entirely rejected; and by this present Constitution, which shall have the force of law in perpetuity. We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly ...
Work was also begun on a diocesan wide project to reduce poverty based on the Padua model in Texas and other similar services in Rochester and Boston. These models focus on the use of brain science in changing how people in poverty approach solutions and have been shown to have long term ...
The latter territory was placed in 1886 under this jurisdiction by the Holy See because the facilities of access were best from New York; it formerly belonged to the Diocese of Charleston. The suffragans of New York are the Dioceses of Albany, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Ogdensburg, Rochester, and ...
Matthew Clark, Newchurch Bishop of Rochester, New York Has Published a New Book Praising the Turnover of Newchurch to Lay Ministers What Choice Does Newchurch Have? Most of Its Presbyters Will Be Dead in a Decade with No Replacements in Sight Nearly Half the Novus Ordo Churches in the Uni...
The reason for postponement of the Sheen beatification was given in a Dec. 5 statement from the Diocese of Rochester, New York — which then-Bishop Sheen headed from October 1966 until his retirement in October 1969, when he received the title of archbishop. ...
But from the seventh and eighth century onwards it became increasingly common for the local Churches to find themselves in some measure of bondage. From the ancient principle of “no land without a lord” it was easy to pass to that of “no church without a lord”, and whether the bishop...