ST. BONAVENTURE — For the 42nd consecutive year, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute delivered a truckload of nonperishable food items and paper products to the Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s soup kitchen on North Union Street in Olean, just before Christmas. This year was the 53rd anniversary of the St. Joe’s Food Basket. The […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The devil is sly and sneaky like a serpent and subtly entices people to sin, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience Dec. 27. Beginning a new series of audience talks about vices and virtues, the pope said that evil grows “when one begins to fantasize about it, to nurse […]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican publishing house announced it will release a book of some 130 homilies given by the late Pope Benedict XVI at private Sunday Masses – 30 given while he was pope and more than 100 given to members of his household once he retired. The homilies were recorded and transcribed […]
The board of trustees of Trocaire College, a private, Catholic college providing a pathway for students to build careers of achievement and lives of purpose, recently appointed three new trustees to three-year terms on the board. The new trustees are: Barbara S. Kuppel, MS, BSN, RN, CPHQ, vice president and chief nursing officer, Buffalo General […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher recorded this Christmas message for all the faithful of the Diocese of Buffalo.
Mrs. Coenen’s sixth grade class at OLV Elementary School in Lackawanna wishes everyone a blessed Christmas this year.
WASHINGTON — The document released this week by the Vatican on the pastoral meaning of blessings insists that marriage is a union of one man and one woman in lifelong fidelity and openness to children, said Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester. Following the publication of “Fiducia supplicans” by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of […]
“Let’s make their holiday season special.” That rallying cry came from Russell Dluhy, a fourth grader at Christ the King Elementary School, who spearheaded a food drive that will provide hundreds of gifts to those in need. The collection was given to the Response to Love Center, a multi-faceted institution that serves to improve lives […]
Ever feel overwhelmed by the aggressive commercialization of Christmas? In this episode, one mother whose family does observe Christian traditions cannot help but struggle to find a little spirit amidst the modern marketing which takes focus off the reason for the season. In comes Sister Justine to remind us of St. Nicholas, the inspiration for […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher has announced the following clergy appointments, as well as retirements. Father Christopher Emminger has been appointed pastor of Family of Parishes #24 (St. Bonaventure, Allegany; St. John, Olean; and pastor & rector of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, Olean), effective Jan. 15, 2024. He will reside at the […]
