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The ''Western New York Catholic'', (formerly ''Magnificat'', ''Catholic Union and Echo'', ''Catholic Union and Times'' and The Catholic Union) is a monthly (formerly weekly) newspaper published by the
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from 1872.


History

Rev. Dr. Louis A. Lambert and Bishop Stephen V. Ryan founded ''The Catholic Union'' in 1872 in
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, New York. It became ''The Catholic Union and Times'' after a merger in 1881. Editors included
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and Irish-American community leader and priest Patrick Cronin (1836–1905). In August 1939, another merger with ''The Catholic Echo'' created the ''Catholic Union and Echo''. Horace Frommelt was an editor, and Father William P. Solleder a
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, in the early 1940s, and the paper took an anti-war stance. Bishop James McNulty sought a name change in 1963, and a public naming contest resulted in the title ''Magnificat'' being adopted. In March 1966, the body of then editor, Reverend Monsignor Francis J. O'Connor, was found floating in
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with facial bruises. The publication became known as the ''Western New York Catholic'' in 1981.


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