To help Catholic Charities’ nine food pantries meet the increased need this holiday season, Mollenberg-Betz Inc., a Western New York-based mechanical contractor, and their employees donated 570 hams at the Russell J. Salvatore Food Pantry & Outreach located at 75 Caldwell Place, Lackawanna on Dec. 17. Mollenberg-Betz gives their 200 employees a ham each Christmas, […]
Sister Mary De Angelis Nowak, 86, a Felician sister for 67 years, died in Harris Hill Nursing Facility, Williamsville, on Dec. 14, 2020. The former Theresa Nowak was born on July 28, 1934, in Buffalo. She was a member of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Parish in Buffalo. She entered the Buffalo Province of the […]
Many young adults find themselves in a dilemma. They are ready to head out into the workplace, but still have idealistic goals in their hearts. Starting a new job might mean compromising the values built up throughout childhood. St. Benedict Parish in Amherst offers a place for those 20- and 30-somethings to learn how to […]
STELLA NIAGARA — While you are deciding on gifts this holiday season, consider treating yourself or others to an easy and enjoyable way to start the new year with joy in your heart through new Devotion-by-Distance programs offered by Stella Niagara’s Center of Renewal Retreat & Conference Center. Designed to feature various types of retreat […]
KENMORE — The tradition of giving back continues this year for the Ellwood Fire Company, which provided St. John the Baptist’s Outreach Food Pantry with a check for $750. The pantry currently serves more than 40 families through food distribution every Wednesday between 1 and 2 p.m. The check was presented by Firefighter Mike Iannello to […]
Catholic Relief Services, which carries out the commitment of the United States bishops to assist the poor and vulnerable overseas, has branched out to incorporate diocesan and parish branches into its mission. The Diocese of Buffalo has joined with its own chapter of a dozen or so people who will incorporate the two feet of […]
Sister Mary Felicia, 86, a Felician sister for 68 years, died in Harris Hill Nursing Facility, Williamsville, on Dec. 11, 2020. The former Eleanor Golembiewski-Dove was born on March 5, 1934, in Perry. She entered the Buffalo Province of the Felician Sisters on July 16, 1952, from St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish, Perry, and professed perpetual […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14. “Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine ought to be understood as an act of charity […]
The parishes of the Diocese of Buffalo will hold the annual Retirement Fund for Religious collection this weekend, Dec. 12-13. Please visit Share in the care site to make an online donation anytime. In 1988, Catholic bishops of the United States launched the Retirement Fund for Religious to address the significant lack of retirement funding […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Anyone who thinks eternal life will be boring should ask a couple in love whether they want that love to endure forever, said the preacher of the papal household. Human beings are “finite beings capable of the infinite, mortal beings with an innate yearning for immortality,” said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, offering […]
