Joliet bishop tight-lipped on priest sex abuse scandal’s financial impact as plans to close Catholic parishes move ahead Bishop Ronald Hicks might consolidate 16 Joliet-area congregations and ...

Nonetheless, insists Bishop Joseph Imesch, who heads the diocese of 450,000 Catholics, this is not Camelot. ”Our major difficulty is handling the growth we`re experiencing,” he said.

Hicks was formally installed Tuesday as the sixth bishop of the diocese during a morning Mass held at the Cathedral of Saint Raymond Nonnatus in Joliet. “I’m excited,” Hicks, 52, said. “I ...

The Diocese of Joliet was established in 1948 and serves more than 500,000 Catholics across DuPage, Kankakee, Will, Grundy, ...

Sixteen parishes in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will be reconfigured into seven parishes, with five churches closing, in order to optimize the diocese's resources for its future and ...

The Diocese of Joliet will fork over $4.14 million to the victims, many of whom were preteens when the abuse took place at several different churches during the 1960s through the 1980s, according ...

The Joliet Diocese once wasone of the epicenters of the crisis that tore apart the church coast to coast. Some of the 19 churches could be closed, ...

O n Wednesday, Joliet Patch broke the news that downtown Joliet's St. Joseph Parish defeated the Diocese of Joliet and Bishop Ronald Hicks and overturned the bishop's highly unpopular January ...

The Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, will partner with the nonprofit Leadership Roundtable to train Latino leaders to serve the church in the United States through its new Latino Pastoral Leaders ...

Standing before parishioners in his historic Joliet church, the Rev. Peter Jankowski said years of internal conflict had brought him to this difficult moment. In an emotional homily, the parish pri… ...