By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 05/10/08 6:40 AM
Bishop Edward U. Kmiec has assembled a committee of accountants and law enforcement professionals to help prevent theft of parish funds — a nationwide problem that has cost area churches hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Q: My Jewish daughter is married to a Catholic man. Neither family is very religious but both feel the couple’s baby boy should have some religion in his life. He’s 18 months old, yet there’s been no religious ceremony.
Mount Olive Baptist Church, 701 E. Delavan Ave., will host a citywide revival featuring guest preacher, the Rev. A. C. Stapleton of Houston, Texas, and lecturer, the Rev. James C. Blackburn, pastor of Greater Hope Baptist Church and president of the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Buffalo.
Q: Is it OK for a Christian to be cremated, or must my husband and I be buried? We’re both quite ill and we need an answer as soon as possible. We used to go to St. Paul’s Methodist Church, but we don’t attend anymore because of illness.
By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 04/26/08 6:55 AM
Orthodox Christians on Friday observed the ritual removal of Jesus’s body from the cross and re-enacted the burial of their savior — in preparation for today’s and Sunday’s celebration of Orthodox Easter, known as Pascha.
I’m so grateful to the many Catholic authorities who give me the correct answers on matters of Canon Law, and to the other Catholic authorities who write to tell me that the people advising me don’t know what they’re talking about!
By Denise Jewell Gee
- NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU Updated: 04/20/08 6:59 AM
Audrey Perry spent the week leading up to Sacred Heart’s final Mass helping the city’s Historic Preservation Commission document the church’s plaster French Gothic arches and original woodwork.
Q: My fiance and I are getting married in July and it’s important that we get married by a member of the clergy rather than a layman. However, it’s been hard to find a reverend/pastor/minister willing to perform the ceremony.
Edwina Gateley, Catholic author, lecturer and activist, will discuss “I Heard God Laughing — One Woman’s Journey of Faith from Africa to the Brothels of the Inner City” at 7 p.m. Friday in Room 202B of Schenck Hall, Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Amherst.
Leaders of the drive to keep St. Adalbert Catholic Church open say their effort has received a boost with word that a Vatican committee has found their church was designated a basilica in 1907.
By Jay Tokasz NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: 04/12/08 9:46 AM
Volunteers for a proposed museum that would house religious artifacts from closed churches have begun collecting items and moving them into St. Francis Xavier Church, where they eventually will be displayed.
