Pope Francis has named Father Jeffrey J. Walsh, a priest of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Gaylord, Michigan. He succeeds Bishop Steven J. Raica, who was Gaylord's bishop ...
Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick was installed as the new head of Seoul Archdiocese while stressing the need to create a synodal church by accompanying every section of the Catholic community. Some 600 people -- representing the ...
The newly installed Catholic bishop of Hong Kong promised action to heal Catholics and the wider society, divided because of the Chinese action to suppress a two-year-long protest seeking democratic freedoms. Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan, 62, ...
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris, who had offered to step down to avoid "becoming a source of divisions," after an article in the Le Point weekly claimed he ...
Pope Francis invited Italy's bishops to live the "beatitudes of a bishop," an adaptation of the traditional Eight Beatitudes to provide guiding principles for being a "good shepherd" of a diocese. Blessed is the bishop who ...
The sun barely had peaked over the horizon, ending the darkness and bringing light into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where two U.S. cardinals, six bishops and prominent leaders of various faiths clasped hands with a group ...
Pope Francis has appointed Father Mark A. Eckman, pastor of Resurrection Parish in Pittsburgh, as an auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Bishop-designate Eckman, 62, is a native of Pittsburgh and was ordained a priest ...
East Timor President Francisco Guterres has awarded the country's highest honor to the late Bishop Basilio do Nascimento of Baucau, who died Oct. 30 at Nacional Guido Valadares Hospital following a heart attack. He was ...
Pope Francis will be praying for the eternal repose of more cardinals and bishops at a memorial Mass Nov. 4 than ever before in his papacy. Although obituaries for only three of the 17 cardinals who ...
As the U.S. bishops prepare to gather at their upcoming fall assembly in Baltimore, they will continue their discussion regarding a proposed statement on Eucharistic consistency. In looking ahead to their meeting, Our Sunday Visitor ...
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