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ST. BONAVENTURE — Two now-deceased friars, who both served in administrative positions in the Olean area’s two most prominent Catholic educational ins...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A St. Bonaventure University conference on the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis has been canceled amid concerns the event would...

BUFFALO (AP) — With church leaders under scrutiny for their handling of sexual misconduct by priests, a group of lay people in Western New York is foc...

ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University says that the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo should not have publicly named a deceased university friar as b...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A longtime and now-deceased St. Bonaventure University friar had a child sexual abuse allegation against him stemming out of the Arc...

ST. BONAVENTURE — A longtime and now-deceased St. Bonaventure University friar was credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor. The Rev. Maurice Sche...

BUFFALO (AP) — Embattled Bishop Richard Malone says he will publicly address the issue of sexual misconduct by clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of...

BUFFALO — A former Allegany County priest has been suspended following an abuse complaint. Bishop Richard J. Malone placed the Rev. Michael Juran on a...

BUFFALO — A federal investigation into clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is underway. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Buffalo has s...

BRADFORD, Pa. — A former Bradford priest who was criminally charged for allegations he sexually abused or attempted to sexually abuse two boys has ple...

ELLICOTTVILLE — An Ellicottville priest has been suspended by the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo for an allegation of abuse. Buffalo Bishop Richard J. Ma...

OLEAN — The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels will spend Friday praying for the victims of clergy sexual abuse, as well as the Catholic Diocese of Bu...

More than 1,300 pages representing years of pain, darkness and horror were released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday, in the statewide grand ...

OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson sat on the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels’ rectory porch Wednesday morning, attempting to pack up — and throw...

Anyone who commits sexual abuse should go to jail, including Catholic priests. Of the 42 priests listed in March by the Buffalo Diocese as having been...

OLEAN — Speakers, singers and a puppet joined the chorus of well-wishers honoring Olean’s “simple country priest” as he heads away after more than two...

OLEAN — The Very Rev. Gregory Dobson’s sermon this weekend was about shepherds, who he said can either lead from the front or lead from behind. “I hav...

The great tragedy and shame of the Catholic Church is how the bishops and cardinals moved priests from parish to parish — or looked the other way — wh...