As Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated Friday night with a Jubilee Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, New Jersey, Bishop Pedro Bismarck Chau will be standing at the alter.

FARGO - Pope Benedict XVI has named the Rev. David Kagan, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Bismarck, to serve in a role that temporarily gives him the authority of the bishop in the Diocese of Fargo.

(RNS) — Pedro Bismarck Chau was ordained a Catholic auxiliary bishop in Newark this month. He is the second U.S. bishop to speak publicly about living in the country as an immigrant without legal ...