When they opened their doors to two young strangers in the winter of 1987, Father A. Joseph Bissonette and Msgr. David P. Herlihy could never have known that their lives were about to end. They were simply doing what they had done for the entirety of their ministries as they carried out the teaching and love of Jesus. 

In Niagara Falls the 14 Stations of the Cross have become a pet project for some local teens. Two Boy Scouts earned their eagle badges with projects involving the depiction of Jesus Christ’s final hours.

Last February, an Islam-Catholic program designed to educate people about good interfaith relations took place at St. Bernadette Parish in Orchard Park, but the event grew particularly heated when someone in the audience essentially called the Muslim speaker a liar.

For several months now, people have camped out in cities throughout the country, protesting the growing economic inequity and corporate democracy in a movement called Occupy Wall Street. Buffalo is no different, as locals have parked in front of City Hall and are bearing down for the cold winter months.