ST. BONAVENTURE — They are the gifts who keep on giving. For the 43rd consecutive year, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute delivered a truckload of nonperishable food items and paper products on Friday, Dec. 20, to the Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s soup kitchen on North Union Street in Olean. This year was the […]
Father Vincent W. McCarthy, a Columban missionary, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. The loving son of the late William and Lolita McCarthy, graduated from St Joseph’s Collegiate Institute 1951. He served with the U.S. Army with the 101st Airborne Division during the Korean War. After his military service he entered the Columban Missionary Order, completing […]
Where can you see robots battle it out, check out the latest fashions, and have a delicious treat all in the same place? The annual X-STREAM Games and Expo, the friendly competition where Catholic elementary STREAM students display their skills in science, technology, religion, engineering, art and math. The 10th annual games were held May […]
The Catholic Women of Buffalo Inc. are excited to bring back the annual Women’s Conference. This year’s event holds the theme “Be Still.” All women are invited to join for a full day event (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) on Saturday, April 27 at St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute in Kenmore. The day includes a continental breakfast, vigil […]
Bishop Michael W. Fisher wanted to start this new school year in a proper way. So, he called down the Holy Spirit upon all of the works and all of the joys and all of the activities of the Catholic school students. Wearing red vestments as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, Bishop Fisher celebrated […]
There were dinosaurs. There was color changing lemonade. And of course, there were battling robots. The eighth X-STREAM Games & Expo put on display the scientific knowledge, engineering skills, and artistic talents of area Catholic elementary school students. The games allowed students to compete in activities based in the STREAM (science, technology, religion, engineering, arts […]
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 […]
Students from St. Joseph Collegiate Institute in Kenmore unload boxes of food donated to St. Bonaventure’s Warming House. (Photo courtesy of St. Bonaventure University) ST. BONAVENTURE — They are the gifts who keep on giving. For the 40th year in a row, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute delivered a truckload of non-perishable food items and […]
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 […]
KENMORE – St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute hosted a socially-distant graduation celebration for the 157 members of the Class of 2020 and their families. Caps and gowns were delivered personally on May 12 by members of the St. Joe’s faculty and staff to the senior students at their homes. Each box included the student’s cap and […]
