Diocese of Buffalo

The Buffalo Diocese will delay the release of its final plan to close dozens of churches for at least another week as it works through 52 counterproposals.

Under its plan, the diocese will close 54 of its 160 parishes. Diocesan officials said the plan would reduce the diocese’s property costs.

A settlement with NYS Attorney General Letitia James requires the Diocese of Buffalo to have a formal program to monitor credibly accused priests and puts a former FBI official in charge of an annual compliance audit

New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday her office has filed a lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, Bishop…

The funeral mass for Bishop Edward U. Kmiec, the 13th Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo was held Friday in St. Joseph's Cathedral in…

Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, who earlier this week was named the apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Buffalo, tells a Catholic weekly…

The Vatican announced Thursday that a Brooklyn bishop will lead its Apostolic Visitation for the Diocese of Buffalo "in the near future." Bishop Richard…

On the first anniversary of his public disclosure of childhood sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, Michael Whalen made good on a vow to attend a Mass.…

It was his revelation of sexual abuse as a minor, at the hands of a Catholic priest, which began what Bishop Richard Malone later admitted was an…

A Niagara County woman, who alleges being sexually assaulted by a Catholic priest when she was a teenager is suing the Diocese of Buffalo. It is believed…