Many people, including Catholics, look on the archbishop of New York as the leader of the U.S. Catholic Church. With this appointment, the pope has picked an archbishop who could lead the archdiocese ...

Bishop Richard Moth will replace the retiring Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who held the role leading the two nations' estimated ...

Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, is set to take over leadership of New York City’s more than 2 million Roman Catholics in February.

Pope Leo XIV named a new archbishop of Westminster on Friday in another high-profile appointment that signals a generational ...

Pope Leo XIV has made significant appointments to the Catholic hierarchy, naming Bishop Richard Moth as the new archbishop of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday appointed Bishop Richard Moth, who regularly speaks out on social concerns such as prisons, as the new ...

Leo, the first U.S. pope, appointed a relatively unknown cleric from Illinois, Bishop Ronald Hicks, to replace Dolan as leader of the nation's second-largest Catholic diocese, home to some 2.8 million ...

A 12-year-old boy is facing an attempted murder charge after police say he stabbed and critically wounded another boy at a Brooklyn playground Thursday.

Now that the Vatican has announced that Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks will succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan, what comes ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, a native of the Dominican Republic, to succeed Bishop Gerald Barbarito.