MANILA – Bishop Cyril Buhayan Villareal has been installed as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of Kalibo on Thursday.

The Anambra State governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has appointed the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev. Matthew Kukah, as the Chancellor of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, ...

Pope Leo XVI’s 11-day tour of four African nations has prompted wide excitement among the faithful on the continent – but ...

As Pope Leo XIV was visiting Africa, African Catholics from across the United States honored one of their own at a Mass ...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of London announced the papal appointment in a statement issued on Tuesday, naming Bishop Daniel ...

Pope Leo XIV appointed Bishop Anthony Randazzo of Broken Bay as head of the Legislative Texts office. Archbishop Anthony Randazzo, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Legislative Texts. (photo: ...

A Belgian Catholic bishop said he "will make every effort to ordain married men as priests" and expressed his commitment to doing so by 2028. In a pastoral letter published March 19, Bishop Johan ...

Not so long ago, when U.S. Catholic leaders said something political, they tended to sound like conservatives. American bishops’ most prominent policy statements focused on three issues: same-sex ...

Belgian Bishop Johan Bonny of Antwerp is pictured in a file photo. In a pastoral letter published March 19, 2026, the bishop wrote that the question is "no longer whether" married men can be ordained, ...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops cautioned its members in a recent memorandum that Catholic “media personalities” are distorting the church’s position on Jews and Israel, and said that ...

The members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh, Cardinal Michael Felix Czerny, SJ, and lay leaders attend the inauguration ceremony of the 50-year jubilee program of Justice and Peace ...

WASHINGTON − Several Catholic bishops have taken the “extraordinary” step of freeing parishioners from their Sunday obligation to attend Mass if they fear leaving home makes them a target for ...