The historically Black college and university band community is mourning the loss of Dr. Richard Beckford, a pioneering band ...

Alma Lee Allen passed away peacefully on January 6, 2026. Alma Lee Allen’s Early Life Born May 21, 1929, in Greenwood, ...

Elder Craig Fields, Sr., 71, was called home on January 3, 2026. Born on April 17, 1954, in Waukegan, Illinois, he was raised ...

A little more than 13 years ago, Monsignor Lawrence Persico was ordained and installed as the 10th bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Erie. In November, Bishop Persico celebrated his 75th birthday, ...

The appointment of Bishop Ronald A. Hicks is expected to bring a markedly different leadership style to New York’s archdiocese. By Elizabeth Dias and Maya King Pope Leo XIV on Thursday named an ...

A New York-area pastor has been chosen as the newest bishop for the Diocese of Palm Beach. Pope Leo XIV appointed the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez to be the diocese’s sixth bishop, according to a ...

Pope Leo XIV has announced a pro-immigration pastor as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, which is home to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. On Friday, Pope Leo named Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, ...

The filing follows a civil trial in which a jury found the former bishop and other officials personally liable for the collapse of a pension fund serving employees of a Catholic hospital in ...

The Holy See said on Dec. 19 that Pope Leo XIV had made two new episcopal appointments in the United States, with the Vatican announcing a new bishop for the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, as well as ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks will be walking into the heart of the Catholic Church’s lingering sex abuse scandal when he grabs the reins of the Archdiocese of New York — and there are already questions over ...

On hearing of his appointment, archbishop-elect Moth said he was 'moved greatly by the trust that Pope Leo has placed in me.' Bishop Richard Moth, a former bishop of Britain’s military ordinariate, ...

Pope Leo XIV made his most important U.S. appointment to date Thursday, naming a fellow south suburbanite as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest archdioceses as it navigates ...