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Asians and Pacific Islanders have reported an increase in incidents of discrimination and racism during the pandemic, according to website data recently published by Stop AAPI Hate.

Notre Dame de Namur University announced July 9 that it has reached an agreement with its faculty union to extend and modify a collective bargaining agreement with the teachers through Aug. 14, 2021.

Catholic San Francisco spoke with Deacon Ian Quito and Deacon Benjamin Rosado, who will become the newest priests of the archdiocese when they are ordained August 1 at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Cathedral.

Catholic communications in the Archdiocese of San Francisco won big in the Catholic Press Association's 2020 awards competition July 2. Catholic San Francisco staff received 15 awards while the archdiocesan website, communications director and Mosaic-TV show earned three including for best diocesan website.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is pledging to comply with San Francisco public health orders barring indoor public Masses and limiting outdoor services, including funerals, to 12 people after it received a cease-and-desist order from the city attorney's office.

A Catholic teacher at Serra High School who finished a pilgrimage to the Spanish Missions in California this week has emphasized his devotion to the first missions’ founder, Saint Junipero Serra, and their influence on him as an educator.

About 120 people gathered June 27 with Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on a damp Saturday morning to pray the rosary and offer an act of reparation at the former site of Saint Junipero Serra’s statue in Golden Gate Park. 

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone with the Office of Vicar for Clergy has announced the following clergy assignments effective tentatively July 1, 2020 except as noted.

Father Kenneth Westray, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco, died June 24, 2020. Ordained in 1981, he was 68 years old.

The man who helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. draft his historic “I’ve Got A Dream” speech in 1963 led a Zoom conversation on racial injustice June 17. (Courtesy photo)