The Catholic Messenger Bishop Dennis Walsh announced two changes in pastoral leadership in response to the announcement last ...

In the quiet warmth of the afternoon of 1 August, the bell at Rossorry Parish Church tolled gently in solemn celebration of a life deeply lived and dearly loved.

However, leaders at the New Mexico-based Diocese of Gallup, which oversees the region, contend that group members misrepresented themselves as a religious order and engaged in activity not ...

Dean Kenneth Hall, bishop’s commissary in the diocese of Clogher, said “the whole community has been shocked and saddened . . . we ask that the family circle of those affected will be kept in ...

Diocese officials hope publishing photos of hateful vandalism found at Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Church will prompt someone to come forward with information that may assist investigators in ...

The Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations this weekend were each decrying recent vandalism to St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish in ...

Pope Leo XIV has erected a new Catholic diocese in Kenya — the Diocese of Kapsabet — and appointed Bishop John Kiplimo Lelei to be its first bishop.

Reverend Thomas Hennen was introduced Thursday as the newly chosen bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Baker, which spans more than 66,000 square miles of Central and Eastern Oregon ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Davenport’s Thomas Hennen as bishop‑elect of Oregon’s Diocese of Baker, the Diocese of Davenport announced Wednesday.

A Southern California Roman Catholic bishop told his diocese of roughly 1 million parishioners this week that they can stay home on Sundays to avoid Mass while concerns about federal immigration ...

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino lifted the obligation to attend Mass for anyone who had a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.” ...

The diocese is the first in the U.S. to issue a special dispensation because of fears over immigration detentions.