San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú urged prayers for the victims and their families after a gunman opened fired the morning of May 26 at a rail yard north of downtown San Jose.
Four U.S. Catholic bishops called on government officials to consider the role and plight of U.S. migrant farmworkers during the coronavirus pandemic and made recommendations that include free testing and care should the workers test positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Bishop Oscar Cantú, coadjutor bishop of San Jose, California, has assumed pastoral governance of the diocese with the resignation of Bishop Patrick McGrath.
A Los Angeles, California, superior court has ruled that a clergy sex abuse survivor can sue the state's Catholic bishops and the California Catholic Conference.
A lawsuit against California bishops and 11 dioceses in California for covering up child sexual abuse was filed Oct. 2 by survivor Tom Emens and Jeff Anderson & Associates.
To be a voice for victims of clerical sexual abuse, Fr. Brendan McGuire realized he had to come to terms with the abuse he suffered at the hands of a priest when he was 18. It was a secret he had held for 35 years.
In "an intense three days," the pilot San Francisco Bay Area GSBI Boost program offered mentoring to social entrepreneurs "who are positively impacting the lives of those in need."