Catholic Charities of Buffalo announced that it has been designated an Accredited Charity with the Better Business Bureau. The agency has been successfully accredited with the BBB since 2017. To be named a BBB Accredited Charity, an organization must meet 20 Standards of Charity Accountability, which are broken down into Governance, Measuring Effectiveness, Finances, and […]
Canisius University announced today that Father Zachariah F. Presutti, SJ ’07, a Jesuit priest leading groundbreaking prison reform work, and Zeneta B. Everhart ’11, Buffalo’s Common Councilwoman representing the city’s Masten District, will deliver the commencement addresses at the university’s 2025 graduation ceremonies on Saturday, May 17 at the Koessler Athletic Center. The undergraduate and […]
St. Joseph Cathedral filled with priests and catechumens and elect and deacons and religious sisters and others who wanted to witness and participate in the blessing of the sacred oils that will be used for healing, baptism and consecration. The annual Chrism Mass on April 15, brought a sense of unity and renewal for the […]
MILWAUKEE — On June 21, 34 School Sisters of St. Francis in the United States will celebrate milestone anniversaries of service as women religious. In addition, one lay woman in an associate relationship with the community will celebrate her 50-year jubilee, and another will celebrate 40 years. Sister Winifred Whelan, who served in the Diocese […]
Canisius University will introduce a new graduate-level Advanced Certificate in Sports Performance in fall 2025. Housed within the School of Education and Human Services’ Department of Kinesiology, this fully online program equips students with specialized training in sports performance while earning prestigious Certificates of Distinction from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. “The exercise and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Jubilee USA Network this week sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to pursue global debt relief initiatives that will economically serve both developing countries and the United States. In the letter, Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan, the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on […]
For more than 100 years, scouting has built character, good citizenship, and leadership qualities in young men and women. Core to the ideal scout is a reverence to God and a faithfulness in religious duties. Catholic Diocese of Buffalo Sound Hub · April 14, 2025 – Diocese honors local Scouts for efforts to grow Catholic […]
Looking for Holy Week liturgies near you? Parishes across the Diocese have shared their Holy Week schedules—from Holy Thursday to Easter Sunday to seven Churches visitations —and you can view them all on the Diocese of Buffalo website.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most powerfully prophetic social justice and peace encyclicals ever written: “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”). Trying to awaken the conscience of the world to reject the “culture of death” which creates “structures of sin,” St. John Paul II wrote in “Evangelium Vitae,” “How can […]
In the rough waters of parish mergers, the Greater East Buffalo Family of Parishes is trying to make their transitions as smooth as possible for its parishioners. For three weekends in March, the family held a series of Heritage Masses where the sacramental records of St. John Gualbert Parish in Cheektowaga and St. John Kanty […]
