Pope Francis has appointed Father Stephen D. Parkes, a pastor in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, as bishop of the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia. Bishop-designate Parkes, 55, a priest of the Orlando Diocese, succeeds now-Archbishop ...
The bishop of the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana, has suspended a priest from public ministry after the pastor referred to Black Lives Matters protesters as "maggots and parasites" in a Sunday bulletin. In a July 1 ...
Eight months after Amazonian church leaders met in Rome to discuss pastoral challenges, a new Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon was founded June 29 to carry on the synod's work. The new conference includes representing the ...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis and has named Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of Springfield, Massachusetts, as his successor. Pope Francis also appointed Redemptorist Father Bruce Lewandowski ...
The streets in front of the White House of late have been filled with thousands of youthful faces carrying signs or wearing T-shirts calling for racial justice, with fists raised in the air, or posing ...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont, Texas, and named as his successor Msgr. David L. Toups, president and rector of St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boyton ...
Pope Francis has merged the Archdiocese of Anchorage, Alaska, and the Diocese of Juneau, Alaska, and erected the new ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau. He also has appointed Juneau Bishop Andrew E. Bellisario ...
Pope Francis has appointed Father Louis Tylka, a pastor in the Archdiocese of Chicago, to be the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois. Bishop-designate Tylka, who will celebrate his 50th birthday May 26, ...
With dioceses around the country reopening or planning to reopen Masses to the public, many bishops have announced restrictions to keep the faithful safe, including limiting the reception of holy Communion to solely in the ...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 65-year-old Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Binzer of Cincinnati, less than nine months after it was revealed he had failed to inform the archbishop and priest personnel board of ...
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