Bishop Michael W. Fisher has granted faculties to Father Kevin Mullins, SSC, who has been assigned by the Columban Fathers as assistant chaplain at St. Columban’s on the Lake in Silver Creek, effective Feb. 21. The Mercedarian Provincial has assigned Brother Raymond J. Colombaro, OdeM, to assist at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in LeRoy […]
Sister Mary Gregory LaSala died peacefully on Friday, March 4, 2022, at St. Francis Park in her 90th year of life and 72nd year of religious life. Sister Mary Gregory was born Lena LaSala on July 6, 1931, in Brooklyn to Stephen and Josephine (Russo) LaSala. On Jan. 6, 1949, she became a postulant and […]
Canisius College President John J. Hurley announced that the college received a $1 million gift from long-time benefactors John W. Rowe ’66, HON ’02, MD and Valerie A. Rowe, Ph.D. John Rowe is the Julius B. Richmond Professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. […]
CRS Rice Bowl is the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services, the official relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Through CRS Rice Bowl, faith communities in dioceses throughout the U.S. put their faith into action through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Lenten alms donated through CRS Rice Bowl support the […]
Take time during this Lent to join in a Lenten morning of prayer and reflection offered by the Renewal Office of the Diocese of Buffalo. Sister Louise Alff, OSF, a native of Buffalo and consultant on evangelization, will lead the service on Saturday, March 19, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at St. Joseph University Parish on 3269 Main […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — Alumni and friends of St. Bonaventure University and Siena College will once again rev up the rivalry as they go head-to-head on March 16 in the Franciscan Faceoff fundraising challenge. The online crowdfunding event combines each school’s Giving Day and is designed to help ensure a robust learning community continues at both colleges. […]
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Just a day after a U.S. House commission’s hearing on holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for “war crimes and aggression against Ukraine,” his military forces carried out an airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol in the East European country. The March 9 attack, which left three people dead, including a […]
The Parish Pastoral Council of Blessed Sacrament Church in Buffalo is pleased to announce that the fourth lecture in the Catherine M. and Paul W. Beltz Lecture Series of the Church on Fire: Stay With Us! program will be held on Sunday, March 20. Sister Margaret Carney, OSF, STD, will deliver the lecture, “Women in […]
IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine (CNS) — The Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk opened its doors to people fleeing Russian bombing in other parts of Ukraine and what it found were not only guests but volunteers. The archeparchy, based about 300 miles west of Kyiv, is hosting more than 1,200 displaced people from other parts of Ukraine, said […]
ST. BONAVENTURE — Members of St. Bonaventure University’s education honor society are teaming up with the Olean City School District to help provide much needed classroom supplies for the remaining months of the school year. The university’s chapter of Kappa Delta Pi has organized a Fill the Pack supply drive that will run until March […]