3 Die in National Guard Helicopter Crash Near Rochester
The helicopter, which was on a routine training mission, crashed in a field. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
Three people are dead after a New York Army National Guard helicopter crashed south of Rochester, N.Y.Credit.Ryan Koller, via 13WHAM
Jan. 20, 2021
A New York Army National Guard Black Hawk helicopter on a routine training mission crashed in a rural area south of Rochester on Wednesday evening, leaving three Guard members dead, the authorities said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the aircraft, a UH-60 medical evacuation helicopter, to crash. Sheriff Todd K. Baxter of Monroe County said at a news conference on Wednesday night that people had called 911 and reported seeing a helicopter flying very low and hearing sounds of a sputtering engine.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he hoped the "renewal and rededication that usually accompanies the inauguration of a new president" also will be a time for violence to subside.
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace urged an extension of the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia.
Panelists in webinar address concerns raised over vaccines and fetal cell line
Kurt Jensen / CNS | 01.15.2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) Participants in a Jan. 14 webinar sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America discussed concerns raised by some over a fetal cell line being used in some phase of COVID-19 vaccine development but concluded the cell line is probably sufficiently removed from the original evil to ameliorate Catholic apprehensions.
A Dutch researcher in the 1970s developed HEK-293, or human embryonic kidney 293 cells. Their original source was an aborted female fetus. The cell line is used to manufacture the spike protein of the coronavirus, which, in a vaccine, triggers an immune response.
Leonor Rivera/Catholic Courier | 01.14.2021
Celebrating Three Kings Day in January is one of our marriage and family traditions. It extends Christmas festivities, livening up a month that is cold and gloomy in upstate New York.
When the boys were little, Ed shared his childhood tradition by teaching the boys to put dry grass in little shoe boxes to feed the camels when the Three Kings, also known as Magi or Wise Men, came to deliver gifts to them like they delivered gifts to baby Jesus.
When we travelled to Puerto Rico to be with Ed’s parents for the holidays, Ed excitedly took us to the mall to have the boys photographed on a live camel with a very ornately dressed King. When we celebrated in our home in New York, we saved a Christmas gift to open on Three Kings Day, also known as Epiphany. We sometimes wore paper crowns.