Following Pope Francis’s announcement of a year dedicated to St. Joseph, the archdiocese has produced a booklet of prayers to help Catholics ask for the saint’s intercession and learn more about him. 

The day after Ash Wednesday, the delegates of the V Encuentro of Hispanic Pastoral -- representatives of the churches with religious services in Spanish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco -- participated in an event to prepare themselves for Lent. The day included talks on signs and symbols of the liturgical season and on personal conversion.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis told the people of Iraq he was going to their country as a "penitential pilgrim," asking God's forgiveness for years of war, persecution and destruction, and as a "pilgrim of peace," hoping to remind people that they are all brothers and sisters no matter their ethnic or religious identity.

CHALATENANGO, El Salvador -- U.S. President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador began bilateral cooperation talks March 1 with humor, a focus on limiting immigration to the U.S. and talk about Our Lady of Guadalupe.

DALLAS -- Recognizing the pandemic has taken its toll on discipleship and could lead to the faithful in the Diocese of Dallas becoming complacent, Bishop Edward J. Burns announced he will convene a synod in the diocese Dec. 12, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Local parishioners and others many more miles away are being guided through Lent this year with a new spiritual exercises program.

​​​​​​​PARIS -- Catholic clergy in France perpetrated more than three times as many sexual abuse offenses as previously thought, said the head of a bishops' commission whose report is due out in September.

WASHINGTON -- Use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, approved Feb. 27 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, raises moral concerns because it was "was developed, tested and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines," the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees said March 2.