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This Catholic San Francisco special section commemorates the 125th anniversary of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery. As much as highlighting the history of Holy Cross, stories and pictures focus on the cemetery’s critical role in pastoral ministry. That role is foremost in ...

The Archdiocese of Washington issued a statement May 15 strongly criticizing ...


WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic leaders rejected President Barack Obama’s May 9 declaration in a television interview that “personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

PHOENIX (CNS) – As Manny Yrique prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, his heart was burdened with concerns about the United States and the level of animosity in American discourse.


The Archdiocese of San Francisco has completed a $300,000 study of every leaky roof, antiquated boiler system, and dry-rotted wall of every building it owns in the three counties of San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS) – With a heavy turnout at the polls, North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman by a 3-to-2 margin.

Archbishop George Niederauer on May 9 announced the appointments of three pastors, six administrators and a parochial vicar in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) – The Diocese of Davenport has reached an agreement that will allow a gay student at Prince of Peace Catholic School in Clinton to publicly receive a scholarship awarded by an Iowa organization that promotes tolerance, quelling a controversy over ...

Ten years after the crisis of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests first captured the nation’s attention, Santa Clara University on May 11 hosted a conference to take stock, to determine what needs to be done to reduce risk that any child is injured.

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – Church action following the clergy sexual abuse scandal is most importantly about justice for the victims. But it’s also about healing – not only for the victims, but for the entire church community.

Parish prayer vigil focuses on violence in southeast San Francisco

More than a job, gravedigger is a vocation: It calls for serving loved ones first at the moment of deepest sadness and later in times of reflection and peace
De Marillac Academy promotes six virtues – compassion, leadership, perseverance, integrity, gratitude and responsibility – and people who were there say that Deja Wilson, the 2010 graduate who was the featured speaker at the school’s annual fundraiser in ...
The Sunday drive takes a new spin in the hands of Barbara Mason and Carolyn Eriksson. Eriksson, a parishioner of St. Matthew in San Mateo, Mason of St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park, are in the midst of visiting all the churches in San Francisco for Sunday Mass.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – In the upcoming movie “For Greater Glory,” Catholic actor Andy Garcia plays a Mexican Revolution-era general lured out of retirement a decade later to head the insurgent “Cristero” forces doing battle against their own ...

 





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