With unexpected financial need growing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canisius High School community stepped up to help during the school’s online Day of Caring fundraiser on May 28. Nearly 400 donors raised more than $111,000 to help the school carry out its mission and provide tuition support so that no student […]
Race riots and civil unrest date back to Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion in 1931. Buffalo was the spot of one of 159 riots that swept cities during the “Long Hot Summer of 1967,” when a group of African-American teens, frustrated by mistreatment by white government and police forces, broke car and store windows through William […]
Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger has appointed Father Kevin Creagh, CM, to the newly created position of vicar for Evangelization and Ministerial Formation. Father Creagh, who has served as president/rector of Christ the King Seminary for the past year, has a long history in education and formation. “Father Kevin’s zeal for cultivating and nurturing the call […]
Msgr Edward J. Scanlan, a Priest for the Diocese of Buffalo for 67 years passed away on May 11, 2020. He was 92. Born May 13, 1928, in Batavia, he attended St. Peter’s Grammar School and LeRoy High School in LeRoy. He was ordained on May 30, 1953 and was assigned to San Juan, Porto […]
Sister Mary Juanita Nowak, CSSF, 78, a Felician Sister for 60 years, died at Blessed Mary Angela Convent, Buffalo, on May 6, 2020. The former Barbara Nowak was born Feb. 2, 1942, in Buffalo, and was a member of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish. She entered the Buffalo Province of the Felician Sisters on June […]
The name of this year’s school musical, “Personal Best Equals Success.” was created by St. Joseph University School music teacher Melody Calato. Students will record themselves in their specific role/scene and Catato will create the video. She also arranged for the drive-in premiere. “It will be a musical movie for everyone to enjoy. My grandmother […]
Notre Dame Academy received news that the video production club, Our Lady Media, has won a Communicator Award. The eighth-grade student council of Notre Dame Academy approached the Our Lady Media video club with an idea to produce a video called “Kindness is Contagious.” In the video, students show how an act of kindness can […]
On what would have been the day of the traditional commencement exercises at Canisius High School, May 21, Canisius instead hosted a drive-through parade on campus to celebrate its graduating seniors. Seniors and their families were invited to decorate their vehicles and drive through the parking lot. Faculty and staff were on campus, spaced at […]
The Cardinal O’Hara High School community is so proud of its graduating seniors that the coronavirus could not stand in the way of honoring them with a proper send off. As enclosed spaces and tight quarters are not viable options during a pandemic, the 2020 graduation ceremony took place out in the open, in the […]
KENMORE — Mount St. Mary Academy held a farewell driving tour through campus for the Class of 2020 on May The senior class was honored as they and their families took a final turn around the high school grounds in their graduation gowns. Graduates were able to leave their cars for a formal portrait in […]
