Religious brother Joshy George Pottackal, born in India, is to become the first auxiliary bishop of non-European heritage.

As a result, the consecration of bishops without papal consent is considered a grave threat to church unity and a cause of schism, since bishops can ordain new priests. Under church law, a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics: A breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass announced plans to consecrate new bishops ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Diocese of Corpus Christi welcomed its new bishop with a Mass of Installation on Jan. 28. Bishop Mario Alberto Avilés, a ...

The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X said it would proceed with the consecration of new bishops this summer, a move without a papal mandate that could lead to an automatic excommunication. In a ...

Holy orders is one of the seven sacraments. It, along with the sacrament of marriage, belongs to a special group of sacraments known as the sacraments of commitment. These two sacraments are ...

The Vatican has warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group that it risks going into schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent. Cardinal Víctor Manuel ...

ROME (AP) — The Vatican warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group on Thursday that it risked going into schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent, ...

Consecrated men and women "reveal God's invitation to love him with one's whole life" on earth, in hope of doing so eternally in heaven, said Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks, chairman of the US Conference ...