Archbishop

During Advent, take Paul's counsel to heed the "contrast between night and day, darkness and light." No less now than in Paul's day, living out our baptism means embracing virtue and resisting the vices of the age.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco held its second annual Mass for the Homeless Dead on Nov. 23 at Church of the Visitacion in San Francisco. According to its sponsor, the archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity, the Mass gives Catholics an opportunity “to pray for those who are often forgotten both in life and in death.”

The Blessed Virgin feeds souls hungering for beauty, and unites all God's children in a world suffering from "spiritual misery," Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily at the Mass of the Americas Nov. 16 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

As we approach October, the month of the Holy Rosary, we remember and rededicate ourselves to the simple request of Our Lady at Fatima that the whole world recite the Rosary daily for peace in the family and in the world.