The Diocese of San Bernardino issued a decree dispensing its more than 1 million parishioners from obligatory attendance ...

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The bishop of the sixth largest Catholic diocese in the U.S. said he was issuing a dispensation for illegal immigrants from the weekly obligation of attending Sunday Mass over fears of recent U.S.

Amid recent immigration raids, the San Bernardino Diocese issued a rare decree excusing worshippers from attending Sunday ...

San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas said parishioners who have a "genuine fear" over immigration raids were dispensed from their Mass obligations.

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, has granted a dispensation from the obligation to attend ...

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino has removed the obligation for Catholics to attend Mass.

San Bernardino Bishop Alberto Rojas, who leads more than 1.5 million Catholics in Southern California, has formally excused ...

The diocese is the first in the U.S. to issue a special dispensation because of fears over immigration detentions.

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino has become the first in the nation to lift the obligation for Catholics to attend Sunday Mass and Masses on holy days due to fears of immigration ...