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To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered “ministry of presence” in action as a matter of daily routine.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Adequate food supply is a fundamental right for all people, said Pope Benedict XVI. Working to ensure ...


Catholic teaching and the truths of the Gospel have a right to be heard in public debate, especially in a country where so many people claim to be Christian, Pope Benedict XVI told the bishops of England and Wales.

With words of praise to God in a melodic song that carried over the din of thousands of people, Dolce Rochelle let it be known to anyone who cared that no matter the challenge, she was doing just fine.

After a year of public clashes between bishops and some Catholic colleges, U.S. Catholic university presidents were urged to forge stronger relationships with their local bishop.

The “rule of opposites” has been a virtually unwavering principle of marriage throughout human history, an expert witness defending California’s ban on same-sex marriage testified in federal court in San Francisco Jan. 27, bringing testimony in the case came to ...

The Primrose House of Values in Burlingame will be closing its doors Feb. 15, after a long run of 40 years.

In what remains of St. Francis de Sales Hospital, the doctors work under a pall of death.

Junior Luis has a busy daily schedule with school, attendance at a homework center, his job shining shoes downtown and helping his mother take care of his younger siblings. Junior is 12.

San Francisco’s St. Stephen Parish opened its new 20,000-square-foot Parish Center to much fanfare and a crowd of more than 1,000 people in December.

At the risk of confessing a plebian pleasure not typically owned up to by scriptural commentators, each of today’s readings reminds me of a scene from the 1992 wacky film “Wayne’s World.”

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop George Niederauer’s reflection at an Interfaith Memorial Service for the victims of abortion Jan 22 at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church.
The following international aid agencies are working with partner agencies and local religious leaders in Haiti and are accepting donations for victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Mercy Sister Sheila Devereaux and Eileen Pressing discuss the Mercy Volunteer Corps with host Tom Burke on the television program “Mosaic” Feb. 7 at 5 a .m. on KPIX-Channel 5.





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