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About 1,500 family members and well-wishers joined bishops, priests, religious brothers and dozens of sisters from the Sisters of Life as seven new sisters took their perpetual vows August 5 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.

By Steven Schwankert NEW YORK (OSV News) -- About 1,500 family members and well-wishers joined bishops, priests, religious brothers and dozens of sisters from the Sisters of Life as seven new sisters took their perpetual vows August 5 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan served as the ceremony's principal celebrant. A

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Dec. 30, 2020 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Churches will ring bells at noon Dec. 30, during the octave of Christmas, to remember and honor the more than 336,000 people who have died in the United States from COVID-19. These bells will ring in churches in the Boston and New York Archdioceses and in the Brooklyn Diocese. It was unknown the day prior to this event if other dioceses would also participate in response to the invitation from Msgr. Joseph P. LaMorte, vicar general of the N...

N.J. churches ring bells at noon in honor of more than 339,000 people who died of coronavirus Updated Dec 30, 2020; A number of churches in New Jersey rang their bells at noon on Wednesday to honor the people who died from coronavirus across the country. Many parishes in the Diocese of Trenton, including St. Michael Church of West End in Long Branch, rang their church bells at 12 p.m. in remembrance of the 339,000 people who have passed from COVID-19 in the U.S. since the pandemic began in Mar...