Jay Tokasz

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.

Chief Judge Carl L. Bucki of U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of New York raised the question in court Friday of Catholic parishes in the Buffalo Diocese potentially filing their own Chapter 11 cases in the effort to finally resolve the diocese’s lengthy bankruptcy.

"Fewer than 20" clients of the firm who have cases pending against the Diocese of Buffalo were included in the data breach at a Minneapolis law firm.

A Brant couple was arraigned after animal cruelty investigators found multiple dead animals on their property and goats, chickens, cats, sheep and dogs living in filth and without access to food and water, according to the Erie County District Attorney’s Office.

A mother’s remarks in federal bankruptcy court about losing her son to suicide has prompted Bishop Michael W. Fisher to seek additional information on a Buffalo Diocese priest who met with the teenager shortly before his death.

The Buffalo Diocese will enter into its seventh year of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in 2026. It is also closing churches and paring down the number of parishes that serve

Accusations that an inappropriate relationship between Rev. Joseph Gatto and Devin Waring may have led to Waring’s death surfaced this year at a listening session in U.S. Bankruptcy Court during the Buffalo Diocese’s Chapter 11 case.