WORLD
September 12, 2007 | Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer
A Catholic bishop detained numerous times for his ties to the Vatican has died in police custody, according to a religious news agency and a monitoring group. Han Dingxiang, 70, from Hebei province just south of Beijing, reportedly died Sunday of cancer. A few close relatives were called to the hospital, but contact with fellow church members had been cut off after his most recent detention in September 2005.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 17, 2004 | Cynthia Daniels, Times Staff Writer
The Rev. Carolyn Tyler Guidry is used to setting precedent as the first woman to hold several high-ranking West Coast positions in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. After her election last week as the second female bishop in the history of the worldwide denomination, the 66-year-old Los Angeles resident is about to go further afield. Tyler Guidry will be one of 20 presiding bishops who hold the highest positions in the A.M.E. Church.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
June 19, 1988 | RUSSELL CHANDLER, Times Religion Writer
The Rt. Rev. Frederick Houk Borsch was ordained and consecrated the fifth Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles on Saturday in colorful ceremonies witnessed by a frequently applauding crowd of 5,000 at the Memorial Sports Arena. "Make Frederick a bishop in your church," the assembled bishops prayed as they clustered around Borsch and laid their hands on his head in the solemn moment of dedication.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 25, 2005 | Larry B. Stammer and William Lobdell, Times Staff Writers
Southern Californians who were sexually abused by priests left in ministry by Bishop Michael P. Driscoll want him to resign or be fired. But in Idaho, where Driscoll now serves as bishop of Boise, Roman Catholic opinion appears far more divided after the release last week of internal church documents that detailed his past handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations in Orange County.
WORLD
September 9, 2005 | Patrick J. McDonnell, Times Staff Writer
A reform-minded Roman Catholic bishop is caught in a compromising video with a young man. In a heavily Catholic country, that ought to be scandal enough. But in Argentina, a nation struggling to escape a demoralizing legacy of corruption, economic catastrophe and brutality, the mystery seems to be: Who orchestrated the filming of the bishop with his male consort, and why?
NEWS
January 16, 1995 | From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The bishop of the nation's largest Episcopal diocese was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police and church officials in Boston said. Bishop David E. Johnson, who had announced his retirement and was to begin a sabbatical next month, committed suicide in his home, apparently on Saturday, diocesan spokesman Jay Cormier confirmed. Diocesan officials said they had no idea why Johnson killed himself.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 28, 2006 | David Haldane, Times Staff Writer
At a small Catholic church in Huntington Beach, the pressing moral question comes to this: Does kneeling at the wrong time during worship make you a sinner? Kneeling "is clearly rebellion, grave disobedience and mortal sin," Father Martin Tran, pastor at St. Mary's by the Sea, told his flock in a recent church bulletin. The Diocese of Orange backs Tran's anti-kneeling edict.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 26, 2003 | William Lobdell, Times Staff Writer
A 62-year-old priest born in Vietnam and schooled in the United States was appointed auxiliary bishop of Orange on Friday, placing the nation's first Vietnamese American Roman Catholic bishop at the center of the country's largest Vietnamese population. The appointment of Dominic Dinh Mai Luong by Pope John Paul II reflects the rapid, one-generation maturation of the Vietnamese American community within the Catholic Church since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.
NEWS
February 2, 2000 | JOHN M. GLIONNA, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Holding hands, sometimes shedding tears, a dozen members of Resurrection parish gather twice each month at the church that is at once the source of their sadness and their hope for solace. At their candle-lit support meetings, these devout Roman Catholics are discovering comfort and strength in newfound activism as they cope with revelations that some of the clergy they once idolized may be guilty of widespread sexual abuse and financial misconduct.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 29, 2007 | David Haldane, Times Staff Writer
A contempt-of-court citation against the Roman Catholic bishop of Orange County has been dropped as part of a nearly $7-million sexual abuse settlement, attorneys said Wednesday. But the opposing sides disagreed over what led to the action. Lawyers for the four women allegedly molested by Catholic school and parish employees said the diocese forced them to drop their bid for the citation.