Mercy Hospital of Buffalo is seeking new volunteers to serve as patient experience ambassadors who can help make a patient’s hospital stay brighter through friendly visitation and non-clinical assistance, and emergency room helpers who can provide vital, non-clinical assistance for staff. Other open volunteer positions include lobby greeters/escorts and eucharistic ministers. For more information, please […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Saying his heart was broken at the news of at least 19 children and two adults being shot and killed at a Texas elementary school, Pope Francis said it was time to say “Enough!” and enact stricter laws on gun sales. At the end of his weekly general audience May 25, […]
St. Martin de Porres Parish saw strangers sitting shoulder to shoulder. Members of the diocesan African American Commission, St. Luke’s Mission of Mercy, Response to Love Center, Boy Scouts, the Jesuit community packed into the East Side church on May 23. People came from all throughout Western New York to hear from religious leaders and […]
Independent Review Board Finds Allegations to Be Unsubstantiated (Buffalo, NY) – Following independent investigations and review and recommendation by the Independent Review Board of the Diocese of Buffalo concerning allegations which have been determined to be unsubstantiated, Bishop Michael W. Fisher has accepted the IRB’s recommendations and has reinstated Reverend Robert J. Schober (71) and […]
TONAWANDA — A special gift to the Cardinal O’Hara High School music department was a highlight of the annual Fine Arts Festival on May 12 in the school’s Performing Art Center. Elizabeth Gerwitz-Dunn, a senior at Cardinal O’Hara and a member of the Dance Ensemble, Song Corps and Senior Singers, said that her grandfather, Raymond […]
The word on everyone’s lips was joy. And Buffalo never needed joy more than right now. The Diocese of Buffalo welcomed three new permanent deacons on May 21 during a special Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral. “My brothers and sisters, this is a joyful day; a day when we celebrate an ancient rite of ordination […]
One of the stories that has always interested me is near the end of John’s Gospel. In 20:1-14, after Jesus’ death and first resurrection appearances, Peter and six other disciples are fishing in the Sea of Tiberias. They had worked all night and caught nothing, yet a stranger on the shore tells them to keep […]
BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Michael W. Fisher of Buffalo joined mourners outside a Tops grocery store where 10 people were killed and three others were injured in what law enforcement authorities said was a racially motivated crime. Placing flowers and a handwritten note remembering “the souls of our brothers and sisters lost to the […]
NIAGARA UNIVERSITY —Dr. R. Glenn Hubbard, dean emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University, and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, university professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, were among the featured speakers at Niagara University’s 2022 commencement ceremonies on May 12 and 14 at the […]
The last several days has proved that Buffalo truly is the City of Good Neighbors and this title extends well beyond the city’s limits. Western New Yorkers has responded to Saturday’s horrible shooting at Tops in so many Christ-like ways: through prayer, outreach, support, and care in kind and unselfish ways. In response to this tragedy, so […]
