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VATICAN CITY – Building on the development of Catholic Church teaching against capital punishment, Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person” and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide. -
Eight local Catholic organizations have reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement global climate change accord by signing the Catholic Climate Declaration. -
WASHINGTON – Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. -
WASHINGTON – The sexual abuse allegations surrounding now-former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick have prompted some church figures to call for a more thorough reckoning of the U.S. church’s clerical sexual abuse policies. -
St. Pio of Pietrelcina’s devotion to the Blessed Mother inspired St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito to host a public tour of five relics of the saint the weekend of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sept. 8. -
A busy parish might see three weddings on a single Saturday. On a windy Saturday afternoon at St. Bruno Church in San Bruno, four couples were married during a single Mass. -
There is great interest in the visit of Pope Francis to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families. The motives of that interest are varied but all of them are in some way linked with Pope Francis. Not just that Pope Francis is coming to Dublin, but perhaps much more about who is Pope Francis? What does he hope to attain through coming to Dublin? -
WASHINGTON – For his homilies on the weekend of July 21-22, Father Edward Looney, administrator of two rural Wisconsin parishes, planned to preach about ways to include God on summer vacation.
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Tuesday, August 14Sacred Heart Sister Maria Cimperman, director, Center for the Study of Consecrated Life, Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, leads a 3-day program on Creating Communities of Hope on a Global Scale, Aug. 14-17, Maryknoll Society House, Los Altos. Religious and interested lay people are invited to take part. https://maryknollsisters.org/maryknoll-mission-institute-2/; mdonovan@mksisters.org.
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Wednesday, August 15“Novena for our Nation,” a 54-day rosary novena from feast of the Assumption of Mary to October 7, feast of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary, and date of a national rosary rally in Washington DC. The project invites participants to pray the rosary for 54 consecutive days in a particular order and for particular intentions. Visit www.novenaforournation.com.
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Sunday, August 19, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PMSt Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco for eight Sundays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. This group requests a commitment of all eight weeks, not a drop-in group. A pre-group interview is required with Deacon Chuck McNeil. deaconchuck@stdominics.org. (415) 567-7824.
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Tuesday, August 21, 7:00 PMDON BOSCO: Don Bosco Study Group, 7 p.m., Sts. Peter and Paul Church, to discuss “Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Lively Virtues,” and Father Ron Rolheiser’s “The Holy Longing. All are welcome, refreshments, approximately 90 minutes. Frank Lavin (415) 310.8551, franklavin@comcast.net.
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Sunday, August 26, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PMSt Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco for eight Sundays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. This group requests a commitment of all eight weeks, not a drop-in group. A pre-group interview is required with Deacon Chuck McNeil. deaconchuck@stdominics.org. (415) 567-7824.
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Sunday, September 2, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PMSt Dominic Parish, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco for eight Sundays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. This group requests a commitment of all eight weeks, not a drop-in group. A pre-group interview is required with Deacon Chuck McNeil. deaconchuck@stdominics.org. (415) 567-7824.
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