SAN DIEGO – The Roman Catholic archbishop-elect of San Francisco apologized Monday for his weekend arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, behavior that he termed ...

Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland as the new Archbishop of San Francisco, the Vatican announced today. The 56 year-old San Diego-native replaces Archbishop ...

San Francisco's Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone conducts an exorcism Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, outside of Saint Raphael Catholic Church in San Rafael, Calif., on the spot where a statue of St ...

Niederauer, 76, had served as archbishop of San Francisco since December 2005. The move may surprise liberal Catholics since Cordileone was a big force behind the passage of Proposition 8 ...

The archbishop of San Francisco performed an exorcism where dozens of protesters had toppled the statue of a controversial saint. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone sprinkled holy water and said ...

President Donald Trump has appointed San Francisco's archbishop to serve on his newly established Religious Liberty Commission. The president signed an executive order two weeks ago establishing ...

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco has filed for bankruptcy in an effort to settle more than 500 child sex abuse lawsuits, becoming the latest religious organization driven to ...

The archbishop of San Francisco said Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is Catholic, can no longer receive the sacrament of communion because she has declined to back down from her push ...

Archbishop George Niederauer, the eighth archbishop of San Francisco and a leader in the contentious 2008 battle to pass Proposition 8 that banned same-sex marriage in California, has died.

Robert W. McElroy, an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco, has been named the new bishop for San Diego, according to a release on the Archdiocese of San Francisco's site. Archbishop of San Francisco ...

The San Jose Diocese, originally part of the San Francisco Diocese, was established in 1981. McGrath was the second bishop to serve the diocese, following Bishop Pierre DuMaine. Dear Abby ...