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2025

• Statement of the NYS Bishops on State-Sanctioned Suicide Bill - Thursday April 24th, 2025
  “Euthanasia and assisted suicide are a defeat for all. We are called never to abandon those who are suffering, never giving up but caring and loving to restore hope.” – Pope Francis, 2019 On Easter Monday, April 21, Pope Francis ended his earthly journey and entered eternal life. The Holy Father gave us many examples to ...
• The Statement of The Most Reverend Salvatore R. Matano, Bishop of Rochester, upon the Death of His Holiness, Pope Francis - Monday April 21st, 2025
  It is with great sadness, but also with joyful hope in the merits won by Christ’s glorious resurrection, that the Diocese of Rochester joins with the Universal Church in praying for the repose of the soul of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, who returned home to the Good Shepherd, the Eternal High Priest, Jesus Christ, on April 21, ...
• Bishop Matano’s Letter to the Faithful regarding Immigration - Thursday January 30th, 2025
  Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Jurisprudence is defined as “The philosophy of law, or the science which treats of the principles of positive law and legal relations… and to choose that rule which, when so applied, will produce the greatest advantage to the community.” (Black’s Law Dictionary, © 1979, p. 767). Based upon this principle, one ...