Bishop of Limerick, Brendan Leahy, reflects on the passing of Pope Francis and his personal meetings with the late Pontiff. Many have commented on the images of the sheer beauty of the setting of Pope ...

U.S. bishops on Thursday hailed the election of former Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first pope born in the United States of America. Cardinals elected the ...

Four of Florida's eight Catholic bishops are at or near retirement age. The new pope, Leo XIV, will be tasked with appointing their replacements. The political leanings of the new bishops are a ...

As the Catholic world awaits a conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, the so-called official Church in China has organized priests in two dioceses to elect two bishops. On April 28, the Chinese ...

THE Philippines' governing body of Catholic bishops has issued a rare statement on clerical sexual abuse, defending Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle on the issue days before the opening of a conclave to ...

The Catholic bishops of Washington state are resisting a new law signed by Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson that they say would violate the seal of confession, which would result in ...

(RNS) — With fear gripping immigrant Catholic communities, bishops such as Mark Seitz are turning to Oscar Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador murdered after advocacy against violence ...

On April 28, Father Wu Jianlin, vicar general of Shanghai, was chosen to be the city’s new auxiliary bishop by an assembly of local priests. The following day, Father Li Jianlin was “elected ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Sioux Falls Catholic Diocese is getting a new bishop, but he’ll only be temporary. The Diocese notified parishioners that Bishop DeGrood has asked for a ...

Former Bishop of Ferns Brendan Comiskey (89) was “in some ways a product of the Church culture of his time”, his funeral Mass heard. The bishop, who died at Louth County Hospital in Dundalk on ...

(Credit: Ben Curtis/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – As cardinals prepare to meet in a conclave at the Vatican to elect a new pope, Catholic bishops in Cameroon and around Africa have been ...