• Hundreds attend picnic to support Archbishop Cordileone
    Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spent time with about 500 supporters who enjoyed a sunny day near San Francisco’s Embarcadero at the May 16 Archbishop Cordileone Support Day Family Picnic.
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  • Author lists 7 big myths about marriage
    by Valerie Schmalz
    Taking a hard look at the choices your beloved makes is one way to see if you are going to be happy married to each other, says the co-author of “The Seven Big Myths About Marriage.”
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  • St. Ignatius Gabriel Project members celebrate wedding, baptism with Nigerian couple
    by Catholic San Francisco
    A couple from Nigeria celebrated the baptism of their baby Uche and had their marriage blessed in the Catholic Church on May 9 – part of a journey in which St. Ignatius Church Gabriel Project played a significant role.
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  • Deacons Cameron Faller, Pat Summerhays to be ordained as priests
    The priestly ordination of Deacons Cameron Faller and Pat Summerhays will take place June 6 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The public is invited. Catholic San Francisco assistant editor Valerie Schmalz interviewed the two men soon to become the archdiocese’s newest priests.
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  • Advocates focus on social justice ahead of papal trip
    PHILADELPHIA – As Catholics and non-Catholics alike prepare for Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September, the pontiff’s message of greater solidarity with poor people is resonating with a wide-ranging group of faith-based social justice advocates.
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  • The beauty of Christian marriage
    The beauty of Christian marriage, which is not “simply the beauty of the ceremony that takes place in church, but rather the Sacrament made by the Church, giving rise to a new family community,” was the theme chosen by Pope Francis in the catechesis of his Wednesday general audience May 6.
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  • Advocates focus on social justice ahead of papal trip
    PHILADELPHIA – As Catholics and non-Catholics alike prepare for Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September, the pontiff’s message of greater solidarity with poor people is resonating with a wide-ranging group of faith-based social justice advocates.
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  • Pope: Forge peace with forgiveness
    VATICAN CITY – Peace takes hard work and must be built one person at a time working each day by forgiving others, ending injustice and stopping greed, Pope Francis told elementary school children.
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  • ‘I want everything for people,’ says Woodside Priory junior
    by Tom Burke
    “You can’t judge people by face value,” says Woodside Priory junior Lilly Johnson, January’s Steward of the Month at the Portola Valley school. “I really, really, really, want to work with people who feel down in the dumps. I want to be able to have an open mind. I’m really interested in psychology and social services.”
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  • Drought a teachable moment
    It is a major issue, one that affects us all: the California drought.
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  • Avoiding ‘witch hunts’
    I was pleased to read Archbishop Cordileone’s statement that he doesn’t want “witch hunts” in our archdiocese.
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  • The sword and the lily
    In his column (“Who am I to judge?” April 24) Father Ron Rolheiser says that we, not Christ, judge ourselves.
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  • Bringing people together
    I feel I should defend the writers of the open letter to Pope Francis that was published in the Chronicle.
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  • Catholics have the answer
    Thank you for your answers to the misguided signers of the ad to Pope Francis. Thanks to our controlled media, we have a lot of misguided people.
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  • Called to witness, to the ends of the earth
    Disheartened, the abbot of a renowned monastery consults with a holy man living in the mountains about steeply declining numbers of his monks. He wonders what sin might have led to this situation.
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  • Pornography on the supermarket shelves
    This past April 22, a coalition that has brought together the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, doctors, activists and community leaders launched the “Cosmo Harms Minors” campaign seeking to “inform, expose and equip communities to take action and protect minors,” according to their National Press Club news conference release.
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  • Remembering Cardinal George
    We are never quite the same after experiencing endearing moments that touch us. The recent death of Cardinal Francis E. George, retired archbishop of Chicago, reminds me of cherished moments.
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  • America’s pornography pandemic
    “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna.” Matthew 5:28
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  • The elderly as poets of prayer
    At 6 o’clock each morning, we Little Sisters gather in the chapel to begin our day with an hour of prayer. Most days we are joined by a petite, frail old woman who wheels herself into the chapel, strains to reach the holy water font, blesses herself and then settles in to begin her daily devotions.
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  • Sacred Heart Cathedral: Students from China at the crossroads
    When you find yourself sitting in your car at the red traffic light at the crossroads of Gough and Ellis streets by St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, take the opportunity to watch classmates at the urban campus of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep trudge between buildings.
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