Rev. Dr. Louis A. Lambert and Bishop
Stephen V. Ryan founded
The Catholic Union in 1872 in
Waterloo, New York. after a merger Editors included
Katherine Eleanor Conway and Irish-American community leader and priest Patrick Cronin (1836–1905). created the
Catholic Union and Echo. and Father William P. Solleder a
managing director, 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
Scajaquada Creek with facial bruises. The publication became known as the
Western New York Catholic in 1981. ==References==