The diocesan Office of Renewal will host the 2025 Renewal Conference, “Renewing in a Time of Challenge” on Friday, May 16, at St. Stanislaus Parish. The event will take place from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. at St. Stan’s Adamski Center, located at 389 Peckham St., in Buffalo. Joshua Danis, head of Parish and Diocesan Partnerships […]
KENMORE — Mount St. Mary Academy held its fifth annual Service and Justice Days on Tuesday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 27. Instead of holding traditional classes, the school offered 10 different workshops for students to choose, run by school faculty and staff, focusing on multiple aspects of social justice approached through different disciplines. Mount […]
The Sisters of St. Mary of Namur will present the Social Justice forum “Woke to Oneness: Let’s Talk about Social Justice” on Saturday, Feb. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Father Anthony Bozeman, SSJ, academic dean of St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C. The Philadelphia native entered St. Charles Borromeo […]
Students learned some hard facts about inequality during Mount St. Mary Academy’s Service and Justice Days. Then they challenged themselves to end the injustice that they now see in society. Service and Justice Days is a two-day workshop-filled experience where the students learn different aspects of social justice. Topics include everything from Accessibility of Sustainable […]
Dr. Rolanda L. Ward NIAGARA UNIVERSITY– Dr. Rolanda L. Ward, director of Niagara University’s Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Center for Race, Equity & Mission, and associate professor of social work, will be honored as a community hero by the National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York at its 2021 NFJC Re-Envisioned Community Heroes […]
