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 […]
TONAWANDA — St. Amelia School is pleased to announce that staff and students will be welcoming a new principal, Kathryn McIntyre, when they return to school on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. McIntyre comes to St. Amelia as an experienced classroom teacher and administrator in Catholic education. She received her bachelor of arts degree in History […]
Bishop Michael Fisher has made the following assignments to the priests ordained June 5. Father Charles E. Johnson Jr. will serve as parochial vicar at St. Amelia Parish, Tonawanda. Father Michael J. Johnson will serve as parochial vicar at Nativity of Our Lord Parish, Orchard Park. Father Ryan Keating was named parochial vicar at St. […]
Father Charles E. Johnson Jr., prays during his ordination Mass. Father Johnson was ordained to the priesthood with his three classmates from Christ the King Seminary on June 5. Photo by Dan Cappellazzo Charles Johnson’s spiritual journey towards the priesthood took a straight path, but had many miles on it. Born in Westford, Massachusetts, Father […]
Bishop Michael Fisher addresses nearly 60 confirmation candidates and their families at St. Amelia Parish in Tonawanda . This marked Bishop Fisher’s first confirmation celebration since coming to the Diocese of Buffalo. (Photo by Patrick J. Buechi) Bishop Michael Fisher celebrated the sacrament of confirmation for the first time in his new diocese on Feb. […]
With the recent increase in positive cases of Covid-19 placing many Western New York counties into the Orange Zone, Catholic schools in those areas will need to revert to the distance learning method of instruction implemented last spring with the pandemic first hit the area. Schools will be allowed to reopen if everyone in the […]
For Christopher Emminger, the road to priesthood wasn’t as long and winding as it is for some people, but it did take him to new places. Before entering the seminary, the 31-year-old was content to stick around and serve his Tonawanda home. “I’ve learned essentially to trust in God, that He knows what he’s doing […]
The locks are off, the doors are open, and people are once again welcome to enjoy a full Mass inside their church. In a quick turnaround, houses of worship were allowed to open during phase 2 of the post COVID reopenings, instead of phase 4 as originally planned. On June 6, houses of worship were […]
Sister Mary Fidelma Kakol, 101, a Felician Sister for 83 years, died in the Blessed Mary Angela Convent, Buffalo, on May 11, 2020. The former Sophie Kakol was born Oct. 15, 1918, in Olean, where she was a member of Transfiguration Parish. She entered the Immaculate Heart of Mary Province of the Felician Sisters in […]
