Migrants who come to Buffalo often find themselves lost downtown with little more than summer clothes held in an onion bag. Catholic Relief Services has partnered with Justice for Migrant Families to make that transition a little bit easier. CRS reached out to local parishes to fill backpacks with water bottles, socks, toiletries, a map, […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — 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 for low to moderate […]
(Pope Francis has invited the worldwide Church to journey together in a synod to think about how the future Church needs to serve its people. This is the second of three articles taking a look at our own diocesan synod document, how it relates to documents around the country and around the world, and where […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — The holidays will be a little happier for those living on the margins of society, thanks to the students in Niagara University’s Student Nurses Association. The group has been collecting canned goods, blankets, toiletries and personal hygiene products that they will donate to Community Missions of Niagara Frontier Inc., at the end […]
On Oct. 25, 2022, the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo announced its new Child Protection Policy coordinator, Melissa Potzler. Her legal experience includes service as an assistant Erie County district attorney, and as a criminal defense attorney. She also previously served as the parish life coordinator at Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Orchard Park. Potzler […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY — Nationally renowned criminologist Danielle Slakoff, Ph.D., will discuss her work on the relationship between the media, intimate partner violence, and identity during a presentation hosted by Niagara University’s Office of Violence Prevention and Education on Friday, Oct. 21, at 1 p.m. in the Russell Salvatore Dining Commons on the NU campus. The […]
ST. LOUIS (CNS) — With a focus on social justice, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious concluded its annual general assembly with an eye on the issues that will guide its commitments for the next three years and a celebration of the transfer of leadership. Dominican Sister Maureen Geary becomes president-elect of the organization that […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When deadly, racially motivated violence erupted in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a Pittsburgh synagogue, a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and most recently in Buffalo, New York, Catholic Church leaders have responded. Such high-profile reminders of the tragic carnage of racism prompts women religious, deacons, priests and bishops to […]
When Father John Timon, CM, saw the work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Europe, he instantly became a fan. He created the first American conference in St. Louis in 1845. Two years later, as the first bishop of the newly-founded Diocese of Buffalo, he organized the second-ever conference in the U.S. Like […]
The students of Miss Elminowski’s fifth-grade class at Notre Dame Academy in South Buffalo have written a prayer to mark Earth Day. You can check out resources here to help make every day Earth Day.
