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Parishes in Marin County will celebrate the feast of the most holy rosary, Oct. 7, with Masses and the rosary at St. Vincent Chapel, One St. Vincent’s Drive, San Rafael.
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In the days following the Pennsylvania grand jury report Aug. 14 that lifted the veil on seven decades of child sex abuse by more than 300 Catholic priests in that state and the church leaders who covered it up, Catholic San Francisco approached daily communicants at local parishes after Mass and asked them for their thoughts.
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St. Isabella Parish in San Rafael is providing a safe space for teens to open themselves to God without preaching, proscribing or proselytizing.
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Thanks in part to public outcry from the Marin County faith community, the children of some 42 low-income families in San Rafael hit with a 40 percent rent increase just as the school year was about to begin are in their classrooms where they should be – for now.
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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.
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In the 50 years since it was built, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, perched on the redwood slopes of Mount Tamalpais has become an iconic feature of Mill Valley’s small-town landscape.
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Father Kenneth Weare, longtime pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, has been appointed by the California Catholic Conference of Bishops to serve on the newly formed Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Stewardship.
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Students pictured are among those honored at recent graduation ceremonies.
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Father Paul Perry, known to parishioners, patients and prisoners as the quirky, quiet, quintessential servant of Christ, has been selected Marin County’s most popular Catholic priest among newspaper readers.
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A former Baptist Army brat who rarely attended church and frequently changed addresses has found religion in the Bible and home at the pulpit.
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Leaning on his cane at the foot of the stairs of tiny St. Mary Magdalene Church in Bolinas before Palm Sunday Mass on March 25, Dominican Father Bruno Gibson drew his small group of congregants into an intimate semi-circle as he recalled the faith of a man cured of his blindness by Jesus in the Gospel of Mark.
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To a roomful of Catholics in Marin County whose frustration with the current presidential administration appeared strikingly shared and vocal, a Catholic ethicist offered the example of Pope Francis in effecting positive change amid deep divisions.
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Answering Pope Francis’ call to take the Gospel to the people, Father Andrew Ginter, parochial vicar of St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon, brings Catholic teaching to a neighborhood hangout where debating beliefs comes as easily as downing a beer.
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Miguel Maldonado said it was Father Paul Rossi, former pastor of St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, who encouraged him to enroll his oldest child Miguel in the parish preschool.
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The Catholic intellectual tradition is a buzz phrase that Marin Catholic High School is turning into an updated curriculum – beginning with a pilot ninth grade English course this year.
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When the parish community celebrates the bicentennial of Mission San Rafael Arcangel on Dec. 16, tribal representatives from the Coast Miwok tribe which built the mission and for whom it was built, will be central to the festivities.
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The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael have determined that San Domenico School in San Anselmo “will no longer be a Catholic school, and will not be recognized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco as such.”
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St. Mary Parish, Nicasio, will hold a Christmas Concert on Dec. 10, 2 p.m., at the church with reception after at Druid’s Hall.
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St. Mary Church in Nicasio celebrated an historic occasion with another equally historic occasion when Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone spent a weekend in Marin County to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the rural church built to serve a then-booming community of dairy farmers, ranch families and lumbermen.
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Father Andrew Spyrow, parochial vicar of St. Raphael Parish in San Rafael, was sworn in Oct. 6 as police chaplain for the San Rafael Police Department with parish staff and parishioners on hand.
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