WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael M. Pham of San Diego to head the diocese.

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, on Thursday made his first American bishop appointment as he named Bishop Michael Pham as bishop of San Diego, California.

Bishop-elect Michael Pham was appointed the San Diego Diocese’s temporary administrator after Cardinal Robert McElroy was ...

The Vatican has elevated the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of St. Paul of the Cross in Marikina City to the rank of a minor ...

The Vatican has approved the elevation of a diocesan shrine in Marikina City to the status of a minor basilica—the first in ...

In the next few weeks, the cardinals of the Catholic Church will gather in Rome to bury him and turn their minds and hearts to the selection of a successor. We do not know who will be selected in ...

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind ...

In North Texas and across the nation, public school districts face a continued decline in enrollment and a budget deficit. For many school districts, the solution has been to close or consolidate ...