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As details become clearer about a settlement between the Buffalo Catholic Diocese and the state attorney general to toughen and make more transparent discipline of priests potentially accused of sexual abuse is drawing some opposition as details are teased out
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With a new year starting for the Catholic Church, does movement on the Road to Renewal come with it?Next Sunday is, in the Christian calendar, the first Sunday of Advent. It marks the start of a new year for the Roman Catholic Church. And in Buffalo, that new year could bring some movement in a developing plan to help parishes work with fewer resources, with the goal of keeping them open. WBFO sought an update on the Road to Renewal from Bishop Michael Fisher, head of the Diocese of Buffalo.
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Buffalo’s Catholic bishop is joining his peers in Baltimore this week for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ General Assembly. The focal point of the faith will be front and center at the conference, but what won’t be are actions to deny it to certain politicians, as some bishops have sought.
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Four priests in the Diocese of Buffalo are being returned to ministry by Bishop Michael Fisher.
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A Buffalo Catholic priest has been assigned to "permanent administrative leave" and is restricted from practicing priestly duties after the diocese's Independent Review Board "substantiated" an allegation of abuse.
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Fr. Norbert Orsolits, the priest who may have sparked the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Buffalo Catholic Diocese, has died. Orsolits, of Springville,…
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The Roman Catholic Church was scheduled to install Bishop Michael Fisher as the 15th Bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in a Friday afternoon ceremony…
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Washington, D.C. Auxiliary Bishop Michael William Fisher has been appointed by Pope Francis as the fifteenth bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in an…
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A "Renewal Task Force" has been formed to address the daunting financial reality facing the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo. The diocese is working through a…
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Western New York Catholic newspaper has announced it is discontinuing its printed edition.The September issue, now in diocesan parishes, is the last…