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 ...
A bishop becomes a true shepherd not by seeking power over his flock but in serving the souls entrusted to his care, Pope Francis said just before ordaining two new bishops. "'Episcopate' is the name of ...
A new bishop has been installed in China's Wuhan Diocese, making him the latest to be ordained under a deal between the Vatican and the communist state. Franciscan Father Francis Cui Qingqi was ordained bishop of ...
Bishop-designate Marini will succeed Italian Bishop Vittorio Francesco Viola, who had led the Diocese of Tortona -- located in the northern Italian region of Piedmont -- from 2014 until May 2021, after he was appointed ...
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