Western New York Catholic

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]

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