Bishop Michael Pham is the first Vietnamese American to lead a diocese in the United States.
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Mid-City's new YMCA boasts an impressive glass-enclosed swimming pool. The problem for this largely-immigrant community? It doesn't offer much privacy for Muslim women who want to swim and keep modest. -
The Catholic school business model needs to change, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego wants to change it before more schools go out of business. -
Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq, is calling on priests like Father Noel Gorgis of St. Peters Chaldean Church in El Cajon to return to Iraq to help maintain the church's presence there. -
An imam and a rabbi urged San Diegans to use the Paris shootings as an opportunity to educate the public on religion. -
In a rare decision, Pope Francis had sided with a local bishop in his appeal against a church patriarch.
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As part of a bill setting defense policy, Congress would authorize the defense secretary to transfer a scenic parcel of federal land in the La Jolla section of San Diego to a private group — the Mount Soledad Memorial Association. -
They are the issues that just won't go away in San Diego, a region allergic to raising taxes: the crumbling infrastructure, a small downtown airport, the cross on the public land of Mt. Soledad and the circa 1967 Chargers stadium. -
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KPBS Midday EditionMaggie Espinosa visited all of California's 21 missions by foot. She is one of 11 people in modern times to complete the 800-mile journey from San Diego to Sonoma County. -
The Rev. Noel Gorgis will continue serving the Chaldean Catholic Church in El Cajon despite his suspension. The head of the Chaldean church told him and other priests in the U.S. to return to Iraq or leave the church.
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