Approximately 20 Respect Life coordinators from throughout the Diocese of Buffalo, including five new ones, were commissioned at an annual Mass held inside St. Joseph Cathedral Saturday, September 7, 2024. These coordinators will go back to their parishes and parish families to manage ministries that seek to preserve the dignity of human life in all its stages.
Bishop Michael Fisher of the Diocese of Buffalo appeared at more local Catholic schools Thursday, September 5, to help kick off a new academic year. WNY Catholic Audio was at Queen of Heaven School in West Seneca, NY, as the bishop blessed the students' backpacks.
Students at DeSales Catholic School in Lockport, NY welcomed a special guest, Buffalo Bishop MIchael Fisher, on their first day of the new school year. The bishop blessed the school's recently completed new playground, and he also met face-to-face with a student bravely battling cancer.
While the children were getting in their last days of summer vacation, principals of Catholic Schools within the Diocese of Buffalo were already preparing for the new year. So, too, were officials within the diocesan education department.
The Diocese of Buffalo held its fourth Renewal Mass, Sunday, August 25, at St. Stanislaus Church in Buffalo. Each year since the first Renewal Mass in 2021, praying the Rosary precedes the Mass, after which a knot is untied from a rope symbolizing the struggles of the modern church: abuse, indifference, mistrust, lack of faith, and isolation.
As parishes throughout the Diocese of Buffalo prepare to host the 11-week evangelical program Alpha beginning September 17, many local Catholics who have already experienced the program say we can all learn something from it. They also dismiss critics' claims that Alpha, created in England, is not suitable for Catholics.
The Diocese of Buffalo will host a training session Saturday, August 10 (9 a.m. to 3 p.m.) for individuals interested in leading Alpha courses at their local parishes this fall. Alpha is a program originating from England which invites participants to eat, watch video, and then engage in candid discussions about their faith, and the many questions they may have about it.
The 10th National Eucharistic Congress came to a conclusion Sunday, July 21. But as pilgrims including a delegation from the Diocese of Buffalo departed from Indianapolis, they were sent with marching orders to share the message of the Eucharist back home. WNY Catholic Audio spoke to some of the delegates as they traveled home Sunday.
The 10th National Eucharistic Congress has come to an end, and the 31 pilgrims aboard the Diocese of Buffalo's chartered bus are heading home, exhilarated but perhaps exhausted. WNY Catholic Audio's Michael Mroziak offers a quick message here, as we plan to offer post-Congress coverage beginning Tuesday, July 23.
Celebrating the Eucharist with an Eastern Rite Qurbana, and a huge Eucharistic Procession through the streets of Indianapolis. Here's how WNY Catholic Audio spent its Saturday at the National Eucharistic Congress.
Friday, July 19 brought another day of adoration, prayer, and spiritual re-energizing at the National Eucharistic Congress. The approximately 30 pilgrims who traveled with the Diocese of Buffalo shared a dinner, and some shared their thoughts with WNY Catholic Audio about how this experience is going so far.
Thursday, July 18 was Day Two of the National Eucharistic Congress but the first full day of worship, presentations, and faith-based activities. WNY Catholic Audio is in Indianapolis for the Congress and has this report.
The Buffalo delegation to the National Eucharistic Congress leaves for Indianapolis and arrives for the opening night. Here's a recap of Day One.
We're on the way to Indianapolis! WNY Catholic Audio's Michael Mroziak provides a brief update from the bus carrying the Diocese of Buffalo's delegation of pilgrims.
An estimated 50 guests attending a veneration of St. Gianna Molla's relics were given the opportunity to actually touch them, with no protective glass or other surface in the way. Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla was among those in attendance, as she continued a visit to Western New York celebrating the legacy of her mother, the patron saint of physicians, mothers, and unborn children.
Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla, daughter of St. Gianna Beretta Molla (patron saint of physicians, mothers, and unborn children) was a special guest Thursday, July 11, 2024 as the eighth and newest St. Gianna Molla Pregnancy Outreach Center was opened within the Diocese of Buffalo, in Holley, New York.
Teens affiliated with parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo's Parish Family #7 have just completed a five-day faith formation program which allowed them to learn about different perspectives, some local Catholic faith history, and about service. WNY Catholic Audio was there as the participants learned, for example, about poverty which exists in their own community and the need to take it on.
Our producer/reporter will be off the final week of June, but preparations are already being made for a July that will include coverage of two special events: a visit by the daughter of St. Gianna Molla to Western New York, and the National Eucharistic Congress being held in Indianapolis.
Michael Hahn, Michael Katilus, and Anthony Vilardo were ordained as permanent deacons during a Mass held Saturday, June 8 in St. Joseph Cathedral. Bishop Michael Fisher celebrated the Mass, joined by priests, deacons, and attended by family and friends of the newest deacons.
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo welcomes three new permanent deacons into the community in 2024. Here we feature one of those new deacons, Anthony Vilardo. We pray for a fruitful ministry and for more people to become inspired to hear and answer God's call to serve.
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo welcomes three new permanent deacons into the community in 2024. Here we feature one of those new deacons, Michael Katilus. We pray for a fruitful ministry and for more people to become inspired to hear and answer God's call to serve.
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo welcomes three new permanent deacons into the community in 2024. Here we feature one of those new deacons, Michael Hahn. We pray for a fruitful ministry and for more people to become inspired to hear and answer God's call to serve.
Venerable Father Nelson Baker, whose legacy includes Our Lady of Victory Basilica and several charitable institutions, is featured in a new comic book that will be distributed free to local Catholic schools. Dozens of students were the first to receive copies during a visit to the basilica Tuesday, June 4.
Juan Sebastian Aristizibal began the day a transitional deacon, but then became Father Sebastian. Bishop Michael led the Mass of Ordination, as Aristizibal became the Diocese of Buffalo's newest priest Saturday, June 1, 2024.
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, as part of its ongoing Road to Renewal, will undergo a consultative evaluation of its 160 parishes this summer and will soon identify parishes and worship sites for mergers with other parishes within the diocese’s 36 Families of Parishes. Following a meeting with priests Tuesday, May 28, leaders including Bishop Michael Fisher and Rev. Bryan Zielenieski, Vicar for Renewal and Development, hosted a news conference to announce this plan. This is the news conference...
BREAKING NEWS - Pope Francis, in a decree issued May 23, 2024, has confirmed a miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo Acutis, and had announced that as a result the late Italian teenager will be canonized as the first millennial-generation saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
Our Lady of Victory National Shrine and Basilica, as well as OLV's adjacent buildings serving the legacy of Father Nelson Baker, will be added to the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places, it was announced Thursday, May 16, 2024.
A former Catholic parish turned neighborhood support center is launching a new East Side Community Partnership in cooperation with the Diocese of Buffalo's Parish Family 21, which includes several inner city churches. Bishop Michael Fisher celebrated a special Mass to begin this new partnership, which aims to expand senior citizen services and activities.
Delegates from the Diocese of Buffalo who attended last summer's National Black Catholic Congress XIII near Washington, DC hosted a follow-up meeting Friday, May 10 at St. Martin de Porres Church in Buffalo to begin shaping a local action plan based on ideas raised at last year's event.
Catholic Academy of West Buffalo features one of the most ethnically diverse - if not the most diverse - student populations among Catholic schools in the Diocese of Buffalo. On Friday, May 10, the school held its third annual Culture Day to let students celebrate their own roots, while learning about those of their schoolmates.
