Type | Monthly newspaper |
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Format | Print and online |
Owner | Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo |
Founder(s) | Rev. Dr. Louis A. Lambert and Bishop Stephen V. Ryan |
Publisher | Diocese of Buffalo |
Founded | 1872 (as The Catholic Union) |
Language | English |
Headquarters | Buffalo, New York |
Website | wnycatholic |
The Western New York Catholic, (formerly Magnificat, Catholic Union and Echo, [1] Catholic Union and Times and The Catholic Union) is a monthly (formerly weekly) newspaper published by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo, New York from 1872. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Rev. Dr. Louis A. Lambert [7] and Bishop Stephen V. Ryan [8] [9] founded The Catholic Union in 1872 in Waterloo, New York. [3] It became The Catholic Union and Times [10] after a merger [3] in 1881. [11] Editors included Katherine Eleanor Conway and Irish-American community leader and priest Patrick Cronin (1836–1905). [3] In August 1939, another merger with The Catholic Echo [12] created the Catholic Union and Echo. [1] Horace Frommelt was an editor, [13] and Father William P. Solleder a managing director, [14] [15] in the early 1940s, and the paper took an anti-war stance. [16] [17] Bishop James McNulty sought a name change in 1963, and a public naming contest resulted in the title Magnificat being adopted. [18] In March 1966, the body of then editor, Reverend Monsignor Francis J. O'Connor, was found floating in Scajaquada Creek with facial bruises. [19] The publication became known as the Western New York Catholic in 1981. [1]