Archdiocese of Santa Fe Archives

Flu factor: Dioceses take steps to prevent virus from spreading

Jan 11, 2020

The flu season is here and dioceses across the country are taking precautions to avoid spreading illness.

Santa Fe archbishop issues safety directive for flu season

Jan 9, 2020

The head of New Mexico’s largest Catholic diocese has issued directives aimed at protecting parishioners during flu season.

By Associated Press

Fugitive priest faces sentencing in US sex abuse case

Sep 13, 2019

A former Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty earlier this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.

By Mary Hudetz

Prelates say feeling of strife, enmity signals ‘crisis of compassion’

Sep 11, 2019

The archbishop of Boston and his counterpart in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have called for a spirit of welcome toward others, saying the current feeling of strife and enmity in the country signals a “crisis of compassion” that must be overcome.

By Rhina Guidos

Seminarian killed in crash recalled as ‘humble man’ who cared for others

Jun 27, 2019

Seminarian Jason Marshall from the Archdiocese of Santa Fe who lost his life in a bus crash in Colorado was “a humble man who deeply cared for others,” said Archbishop John C. Wester in a June 25 statement.

By Catholic News Service

Police investigate bus crash involving Catholic high school church group

Jun 24, 2019

Authorities on Monday were trying to determine what caused a bus carrying a New Mexico high school church group home from a weekend retreat in Denver to veer off the highway and crash, killing two people and injuring at least 13 others.

By Associated Press