Vásquez was most recently selected by Francis to oversee the Diocese of Tyler, also in Texas, after he dismissed its former ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, 75, resigned from the archdiocese after expanding Catholicism throughout southeast Texas.

The Most Rev. Joe Steve Vasquez, a Stamford native, was originally ordained as a priest for the Diocese of San Angelo.

Francis' prayer for the 47th president followed a Sunday interview with Italian media in which he called Trump's proposed ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who was made a cardinal in 2007 and who led the U.S. bishops’ conference as president from 2016–2019 ...

The Austin shepherd will succeed Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, who submitted his resignation to the Holy Father in May.

Lions safety Kerby Joseph, who leads the NFL with nine interceptions, was not one of the three safeties picked for the NFC Pro Bowl roster, the Free Press learned Wednesday night. Joseph finished ...

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...

Pope Francis, who turned 88 last month, has said in a new book that he feels healthy and has no plans to resign as leader of the global Catholic Church. "I am well," the pontiff states in an ...

The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” Francis, originally from Argentina and the first ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where other pontiffs have not. Hope ...