US Catholic bishops elect Timothy Broglio as new president
Updated: 12:20pm (AEST)Baltimore, US AP Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, who oversees Catholic ministries to the US armed forces, was elected Tuesday as the new president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. Broglio, 70, was elected from a field of 10 candidates. He will succeed Archbishop José H Gomez of Los Angeles, who […]
US Catholic bishops to elect new leaders, mark abuse reform milestone
United StatesAP US Catholic bishops began their fall meeting Monday where they will be electing new leaders – a vote that may signal whether they want to be more closely aligned with Pope Francis ‘ agenda or not. Several of the 10 candidates to be the next president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops are part of its powerful […]
Top US Catholic bishop calls social justice movements “pseudo-religion”
RNS Archbishop José H Gomez, president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, railed against “new social justice movements” during a speech Thursday, decrying them as “pseudo-religions” that ultimately serve as “dangerous substitutes for true religion”. Gomez, who heads the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, delivered the remarks in a video message sent to a meeting of […]
Univision and Los Angeles Archdiocese partner to offer Mass on local TV channel
Los Angeles, USRNS Parishioners from the largest Catholic archdiocese in the country can now access Spanish-language Mass on local TV in the wake of the novel coronavirus that has led to the cancellation of the public services. Through a partnership between Univision television network in Los Angeles and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Spanish-language […]
Cyntoia Brown-Long to speak at anti-abortion rally held by Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, USRNS To Cyntoia Brown-Long, it’s not just the unborn who need protection and respect, but also the marginalised and forgotten. Since her much-publicized release in August from the Tennessee Prison for Women, where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a man who solicited her for sex at 16, Brown-Long has […]