Archdiocese

Father Mathias Wambua, born in Kenya and raised in Nairobi, serves as a parochial vicar at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco and leads an effort to establish a medical clinic in Kitengela, a poor neighborhood outside Nairobi.

Personal health fears, long-term isolation from family and friends, a polarized political and social landscape, and inability to find solace in public Mass and sacraments are the top sources of stress and anxiety for Catholic San Francisco readers in 2020.

Father Mathias Wambua, born in Kenya and raised in Nairobi, serves as a parochial vicar at Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco and leads an effort to establish a medical clinic in Kitengela, a poor neighborhood outside Nairobi.

Father Andrew Spyrow, vicar for clergy, announced the following clergy assignments on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Sept. 17, 2020.

The results of an Archdiocese of San Francisco survey of parishioner demographics and opinions are almost ready to be delivered, offering pastors and parish leadership a new tool to use in directing parish ministry. 

The St. Agnes pantry in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district draws clients as varied in cultures, customs and circumstances as the eclectic neighborhood in which it stands.

Ten new seminarians from the Archdiocese of San Francisco began priestly formation this year, a notable change from the rock-bottom numbers of previous years. 

The Archbishop of San Francisco has called Catholics to participate in Eucharistic processions across the city Sept. 20, which will join together and walk past city hall before public Masses are said outside the city's cathedral - in part to protest the city’s revised limits on public worship.

Thanks to a generous donor, Father Ron’s live all-day retreat will cost retreatants only $25 rather than the full $100 fee.

Alabama Street in San Francisco became a worship space for several hundred Catholics who could not enter one of nine simultaneous Masses in groups of 12 in the parking lot of St. Peter Church on Sunday, Sept. 6. ​​​​​​​