NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Dr. Amy Nwora, an experienced higher education and child development professional, has been named dean of Niagara University’s College of Education, effective Feb. 17. Nwora comes to Niagara from D’Youville University, where she has served as a full-time professor in its occupational therapy and health professions education departments since 2004. She was […]
Sister Mary Bertina Rapnicki died peacefully on Feb. 5, 2025, at St. Francis Park in the 96th year of life and the 78th year of religious life. Sister Bertina was born on April 17, 1928, in Detroit, to Jan and Julia (Maximovicz) Rapnicki. On Jan. 5, 1946, she became a postulant and on July 15, […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — As part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen bonds with its neighbors in the Seneca Nation of Indians, St. Bonaventure University formally acknowledged for the first time “the stewards of the land” upon which the school was built almost 170 years ago. In a ceremony at center court just before tipoff of […]
TONAWANDA — For Romerro Estrada, an evening that started out fun could have ended in tragedy if not for the calm, cool and collected reaction from a friend. Following a Cardinal O’Hara High School girls’ basketball game, Romerro prepared to practice with the boys’ basketball team. As he started, his eyes began to itch, a […]
Father Thomas J. Quinlivan, a priest for nearly 53 years, died Feb. 5, 2025. He is best known as chaplain of St. Mary’s School for the Deaf and pastor of Queen of Heaven in West Seneca. Born May 1, 1946, in Buffalo to Thomas and Gertrude (Kerwin) Quinlivan. He attended St. John the Evangelist School […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — It’s tax season, and accounting students from Niagara University’s Holzschuh College of Business Administration and members of its Accounting Society and Beta Alpha Psi will again provide members of the Niagara Falls community free tax preparation assistance through the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which offers free tax help […]
LACKAWANNA — OLV Charities, the mission support partner of Father Nelson Baker’s charitable works, will become the new organizational sponsor of the activities and locations of the St. Gianna Molla Pregnancy Outreach Centers in Western New York beginning this month. The centers will be renamed the St. Gianna Pregnancy Outreach Centers – An OLV Ministry. […]
St. Gianna Beretta Molla, who urged doctors to save her unborn baby’s life even at the cost of her own, is the featured saint in the season finale of “Sister Justine’s Saint Tales,” the original audio play podcast series produced by the Diocese of Buffalo. This 10th and final episode of Season 3 is now […]
The Parish Council of Blessed Sacrament Church is pleased to announce the third lecture of the Church on Fire II Lecture Series for 2024-2025. The lecture, “Evil Today: The Reality of the Demonic,” will be given by Deacon Thomas LaBelle on Friday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church located at 1029 Delaware […]
Sister Mary Patrick Murphy, a Sister of St. Joseph for 71 years, died Jan. 16, 2025, at the Sisters of St. Joseph Residence in Clarence. Sister Mary Pat’s 45 years (1955-2000) of teaching multiple business courses brought her to Mount St. Joseph Academy and Bishop O’Hern High School, both in Buffalo, and Cardinal Mindszenty High […]
