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Raymond Dennehy has spent his life fighting for life. For five decades, the decorated philosophy professor, debater, writer and crusader has rushed in where even many faithful Catholics fear to tread: the front lines of the war against what has come to be called “the culture of death.”

Five Catholic K-8 schools in San Francisco without the resources to hire counseling staff will have greater access to on-site mental health services in the 2019-20 school year.

Celebrating El Salvador’s national feast day brought parishioners at Corpus Christi parish back home for an afternoon. “The food, the music, you’re in the church and you feel like you’re back in El Salvador,” parishioner Wenceslao Brito said.

Local pro-life leader Ron Konopaski received an award for his work against abortion at a recent event hosted by 40 Days for Life in Houston, Texas.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has named Father Daniel B. Donohoo as president-rector of St. Patrick Seminary & University and Father Anthony Stoeppel as its vice rector. Both appointments are for five-year terms and effective Aug. 15, 2019, the archdiocese announced in a website posting.

The novena to ask Our Lady of Guadalupe's intercession to defeat SB 24 ended Sunday, August 11 at St. Mary's Cathedral. The legislation would require state colleges and universities to provide medical abortion pills at college health centers. 

Find a way of praying that builds trust and closeness with God, local author and teacher Christian Clifford said at a recent conference.

More than 8,000 people were identified as being homeless in San Francisco’s biennial homeless population census report released in May. Shelby may or may not be one of them.

Students can be excused from any part of a school’s sexual health curriculum if it conflicts with their parent or guardian’s religious or moral beliefs, the California Catholic Conference said in guidance for parents issued Aug. 2. In a primer published on its website about the California Healthy Youth Act, the conference covered parents’ legal rights regarding their child’s comprehensive sexual health education in public schools

Mercy Sister Lillian Murphy, a former CEO of Mercy Housing Inc., and a national advocate for affordable housing, died at age 78 July 25 in San Francisco.