Over 50 Catholic elementary school students from eight Diocese of Buffalo Catholic schools gathered on Saturday, Feb. 4, to conclude Catholic Schools Week with the first Diocesan Chess Championship. After an opening round to sort, the bracket of 16 played five rounds to crown a champion. Seventh grader Sebastian Schmitt of St. Christopher emerged as […]
Who are the heroes in your lives? The students of Catholic Academy of Niagara Falls thought about this during Catholic Schools Week. Often Superman or an athlete that comes to mind. Will we ever meet one of those heroes? Maybe, but as we all know, heroes are everywhere. Heroes work in our communities and our […]
ATHOL SPRINGS — St. Francis High School celebrated Catholic Schools Week by allowing various dress down days including jersey day and tropical day. After we celebrated Mass, Terrance Pendergrass, a junior, received the Vito and Lucy Vacco Memorial Scholarship Award. Father James Vacco, OFM, a 1972 graduate of St. Francis, presented the scholarship award in […]
LAKE VIEW — Southowns Catholic School had a very busy Catholic Schools Week full of fun activities and themed dress-down days. The students kicked it all off with Mass followed by their annual Open House on Sunday, Jan. 29. The school raised over $500 for Operation Good Neighbor by selling tickets for a chance to […]
ORCHARD PARK — On Wednesday, the smell of popcorn filled the hallways at Nativity of Our Lord School. During lunch periods the members of the Student Council passed out popcorn to the students and teachers.
As Catholic Schools Week began, Bishop Michael W. Fisher visited Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Orchard Park to thank the students and parents for choosing Catholic education. The Jan. 29 Mass saw students from the elementary school taking on the roles of greeters, gift bearers, and readers. Begun in 1974, National Catholic Schools Week […]
An annual celebration of Catholic schools throughout the Diocese of Buffalo returns in the final days of January and first days of February. Catholic Schools Week activities will be held within schools Jan. 30 through Feb. 3. The week will kick off with a special recognition during 9 a.m. Mass Sunday, Jan. 29 at Nativity […]
TONAWANDA — Bishop Michael W. Fisher visited Cardinal O’Hara High School in the Town of Tonawanda on March 18 to celebrate a liturgy for the entire school in the school’s Performing Art Center. After the Mass, the bishop, Timothy Uhl, Ph.D., secretary of education, and Father Sean Paul Fleming, director of the Office of Worship, […]
ORCHARD PARK — Throughout Catholic Schools Week Nativity of Our Lord School students participated in various events for fun and charity that supported the themes of “Celebrate Your Community,” “Celebrate Our Students,” “Celebrate Our Nation,” “Celebrate Vocations,“ “Celebrate our Faculty, Staff and Volunteers,” and “Celebrating our Families.” Events included a Kick, Catch and Roll Tourney, […]
The eighth-grade Spanish class at St. Amelia School in Tonawanda has taken on an educational service project to help a fellow student in Guatemala. The students are selling unique handmade leather bracelets through their school and neighborhood. The money raised will go to pay for the high school education of Melvin, a teen facing severe poverty in […]
