More than 50 boys and girls from throughout the Diocese of Buffalo were honored Saturday, March 1 as the 2025 recipients of the Bishop's Altar Server Award. They were presented with their medals during a Mass celebrated in St. Joseph Cathedral. Bishop Michael Fisher was the principal celebrant, joined by approximately 20 other priests.

The Diocese of Buffalo joins the world in praying for the health of Pope Francis. On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the weekday noon-hour Mass was offered for the Holy Father, celebrated by Bishop Michael Fisher.

The daily noon-hour Mass celebrated in St. Joseph Cathedral in Buffalo was offered up for Pope Francis, who remained hospitalized in Gemelli Hospital in Rome Tuesday afternoon, February 25, 2025. This is the homily delivered by Bishop Michael Fisher, reflecting on the pope's health and also the Gospel passage (Mark 9:30-37) in which the apostles debate who among them is the greatest. Jesus Christ tells his disciples that he who would be the greatest would be the least, the servant. Bishop Fisher points out that the Holy Father is the Servant of the Servants.

On what was World Marriage Sunday, Bishop Michael Fisher celebrated Mass February 9, 2025, during which area couples marking wedding anniversaries ranging from 25 to 70 years renewed their vows.

Bishop Michael Fisher traveled nearly 130 miles Thursday, January 30, 2025 to visit two schools located in the more southern regions of the Diocese of Buffalo, as his Catholic Schools Week tour continued.

Bishop Michael Fisher stopped in an elementary school and then a girls' high school in South Buffalo to close out his week of visits to schools within the Diocese of Buffalo for Catholic Schools Week 2025.

On his second of four days of planned visits to celebrate Catholic Schools Week, Bishop Michael Fisher said hello to students at schools in Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Grand Island. WNY Catholic Audio followed along.

The students of Holy Family School are returning from a field trip, but their bus is held up by protests outside an abortion clinic. Sister Justine delicately discusses the issue with the students, and shares the story of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, a woman who willingly sacrificed her own life to save her baby.

(NOTE: We encourage parents to listen to this episode with their children and have their own discussion about this topic. Due to the sensitive nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.)

Bishop Michael Fisher and an entourage from the Diocese of Buffalo's Education Department visited three schools within the diocese Monday, January 27, 2025 to kick off Catholic Schools Week.

The Diocese of Buffalo celebrated a special Pro-Life Mass Thursday, January 23, 2025 in St. Christopher Church in Tonawanda, NY, coinciding with the Mass and Prayer Service taking place in Washington, DC on the eve of the National March for Life. At the local Mass, a couple who experienced the pain of losing three children spoke of their decision not to abort one of them, even while knowing her severe disabilities would give her a very short life.