Jay Tokasz

Active, former and retired employees who were enrolled in a defined benefit pension plan operated by the diocese and who did not take lump-sum buyouts offered twice previously may be eligible.

The diocese scheduled a news conference this morning with Bishop Michael W. Fisher and the Rev. Bryan Zielenieski to announce final plans for the entire diocese.

The reversal of fortunes for the two Hamburg parishes was among a handful of similar situations across the eight-county diocese, where more than 70 churches are now slated for closure.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked part of a 2022 New York State law that banned legal gun owners from carrying firearms on private property without the expressed consent of the property owners.

Jason T. Badagliacca, 38, of Orchard Park, pleaded guilty in May to one count of second-degree grand larceny after an audit uncovered the theft.

There’s no indication the diocese will be exiting bankruptcy anytime soon.

Over the past 30 years, at least nine formerly Catholic properties in Buffalo have been sold for new uses by Muslims, who have also purchased former Protestant churches.

St. John Vianney School in Orchard Park will not reopen in September for another academic year.

Erie County Surrogate’s Court Judge Acea M. Mosey ordered that a DNA sample be obtained from one of Frank McGuire’s known children to confirm whether he is the father of a woman who was not known to him before he died in 2020.

At the start, lawyers predicted the Buffalo Diocese bankruptcy could take a year to three years to complete. The multiple delays and legal twists and turns have grated on survivors.