Bishops

To say that Hispanics in the diocese take pride in their newly appointed bishop is an understatement.

A second statement from the U.S. bishops read: “We stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazism.”

The Vatican has appointed an apostolic visitor to investigate claims by Indonesian priests that their bishop had a mistress and misappropriated church funds.

Bishop William Murphy calls for more nuance in discussing "the proper kind of religious influence in the secular sphere."

Bishop Ruiz preached “evangelization by the poor,” instructed his priests to study local indigenous languages and trained hundreds of catechists and deacons.

The complaints detail alleged attacks from 1955 through 1994 and claim some religious leaders knew of the exploitation and ignored it.