Bishops' New Leader From Troubled Diocese
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America's Roman Catholic bishops chose a new president Monday who has released the names of priests accused of molesting children and reached out to victims but who also plans to seek bankruptcy protection for his diocese because of abuse claims.
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Catholic clergy in China have named a new bishop for Beijing, reports said Wednesday &#151; the first appointment since Pope Benedict XVI sent a letter to Chinese Catholics urging them to unite under his authority.
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The dismissal of charges against a Catholic bishop raises issues from statutes of limitations to a cultural shift.
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China installs a new bishop of Beijing, the first in over 50 years to have tacit prior approval from the Vatican.
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A new face in the boardroom heralds change for the troubled company.
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Cautious optimism greets church report that offers road to reconciliation on gay bishop issue.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two Episcopal parishes in Southern California announced yesterday that they had broken with the national church over the issue of homosexuality, placing themselves under the jurisdiction of a conservative Anglican bishop from Africa.
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THE PLIGHT of the US Roman Catholic Church could not have been underscored more heavily this week by the new choice to head the nation&#39;s Catholic bishops.
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Roman Catholic Church leaders in Austria formally installed a new bishop Sunday in a diocese rocked by the discovery of a vast cache of child pornography on computers at a seminary.
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Senior clergy of Greece's powerful Orthodox Church are gathering in Athens to elect the new leader following the death last month of Archbishop Christodoulos.
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Can the Archbishop of Canterbury lead his flock back from the brink of a rancorous schism over homosexuality?
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By Bob Schwarz, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 22--The Rev. Karl Ruttan will leave St. John's Episcopal Church in early January, he recently told his congregation.
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Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Kazimierz Nycz the new archbishop of Warsaw, the Polish Episcopate said Saturday, filling a post left open when his predecessor resigned after admitting to ties with the ...Comment
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China's state-controlled Catholic Church installed a cleric well-regarded by the Vatican as bishop of Beijing on Friday in a move that officials say should help ease their tense relations.
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The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called Sunday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania -- The Anglicans' spiritual leader, faced with a deepening rift over homosexuality and scripture in the worldwide Anglican Communion, called yesterday for humility among bishops as the conflict threatens to fracture the church.
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It&#39;s the biggest decision bishop Gerald Kicanas has made since he took over the Diocese of Tucson last year- taking the diocese to bankruptcy court.