ROME (CNS) — Tasked with finding ways his predecessor should make amends for abuses, including gross financial misconduct, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston, West Virginia, was able to meet with a top Vatican official ...
A plan of amends that requires former Bishop Michael Bransfield to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution had to be “substantial,” said his successor, Bishop Mark Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia. “It ...
Bishop Paul D. Sirba of Duluth, Minnesota, died at Essentia Health-St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth Dec. 1. He was 59. According to a statement from the diocese's vicar general, Father James Bissonette, Bishop Sirba ...
Pope Francis has named Msgr. Robert J. McClory, rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak, Michigan, to head the Diocese of Gary, Indiana. Bishop-designate McClory, 56, has been shrine rector ...
Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Francis Malone, a pastor and the chancellor for ecclesial affairs in the Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, to be the bishop of Shreveport, Louisiana. Bishop-designate Malone, 69, has held the ...
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In front of the tomb of St. Peter, where they solemnly chanted the Creed in Latin, the bishops of New England contemplated the call and mission of the apostle, and how ...
Bishop Roger P. Morin, the third bishop of Biloxi, died Oct. 31 at age 78. He was returning to Biloxi after vacationing with his family in Massachusetts and died during his flight from Boston to ...
Pope Francis has appointed Father Austin A. Vetter, a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck, North Dakota, to be the bishop of the Diocese of Helena, Montana. The appointment was announced in Washington Oct. 8 by ...
In a rare move, the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education suspended a decree by Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson relating to the archbishop’s oversight of Bruh-buff Jesuit Preparatory School after the school refused to dismiss a ...
In a wide-ranging conversation, Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas — who has been called bold for defending the Gospel — shared many of his thoughts about the Church today, including internal divisions, ...
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