Archdiocese

More than 400 people gathered for the 9th annual St. John Vianney priests’ retirement luncheon at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 11, a sign of gratitude and support for the men who spent their lives serving the church. 

Sister Catherine Cahur, SC, died in San Francisco on Sept. 22 at the age of 82. She was a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati for 64 years.

An Irish priest with the Sacred Heart Missionary order challenged a roomful of white-haired, lifelong Catholics in San Rafael to “grow up” if they want to mature in the faith of their childhood.

Facing a nationally rising tide of adolescent mental health problems, Mercy High School in Burlingame began a schoolwide initiative called the ARC Program to address the risks teens face and teach them important coping strategies.

When San Francisco-based Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, headquartered in Englewood, Colo., combined Feb. 1 into the nation’s second largest private health care provider, they built upon foundations laid nearly 1,700 years ago by Christians who risked death to tend to plague victims in fourth-century Rome.

Traffic came to a stop in San Francisco as hundreds walked in a eucharistic procession down McAllister Street toward U.N. Plaza during the Rosary Rally on Oct. 5, part of an increased emphasis on public witness to faith.

After a morning Mass at the Fishermen’s and Seamen’s Chapel at Fisherman’s Wharf Oct. 5, nearly 200 members of the North Beach community and those who support them boarded a boat to toss flowers into the sea to honor fishermen who lost their lives there.

Eudist Father Carlos Panesso, a professional singer of salsa music and other Latin rhythms, left artistic success behind to answer God's call to the priesthood.

Cardinal William J. Levada, the former archbishop of San Francisco and of Portland, Ore., and the retired prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, died in Rome Sept. 26, 2019, at age 83.

Funeral services for Cardinal William J. Levada, who died Sept. 26 in Rome at age 83, will be held Oct. 24 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, with Santa Fe, New Mexico, Archbishop John Wester as homilist. Doors open at 9:30.