The Buffalo Diocese proposed shuttering 14 churches in Chautauqua, southern Erie and Cattaraugus counties in its latest announcements to clergy and parish leaders.

"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

In the 1870s, as the country moved uneasily into the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, St. Anthony of Padua Parish in ...