Archdiocese

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone was welcomed for a pastoral visit to San Francisco’s St. Anthony’s on Nov. 20, 2020.

Drug makers Pfizer Inc., BioNtechSE and Moderna Therapeutics have announced a 90%-plus rate of efficiency for vaccines effective against COVID-19.

  The juxtaposition of Thanksgiving with the church’s annual month of prayer for the dead hadn’t previously struck me with force; that it did this year has something to do, I expect, with my late sister-in-law, Linda Bauer Weigel. Linda died in January after a heroic battle with ovarian cancer – a dreadful diagnosis she received just before Thanksgiving 2019.

Scripture, a roll call of deceased veterans, and the playing of “Taps” built the framework and the substance of a Veterans Day prayer service at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma on Nov. 11, 2020.

The church must do more to include youth in its work to overcome racism, speakers at a listening session said.

Five people have been charged with felony vandalism in connection with the Oct. 12 toppling of a statue of St. Junipero Serra on the ground of St. Raphael Church in San Francisco.Five people have been charged with felony vandalism in connection with the Oct. 12 toppling of a statue of St. Junipero Serra on the ground of St. Raphael Church in San Francisco.

Nov. 15, 2020 has been named Sister Mary Edith Hurley Day in San Francisco by proclamation of the Board of Supervisors!

The Crusada Guadalupana in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be held virtually on Dec. 5, an act of faith and hope in the virgin of Guadalupe, for survivors of COVID-19 and for an end to the pandemic, said the founders of the annual veneration, Pedro García and his wife Marta García.

After caring for Bay Area seniors including dozens of priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for almost 60 years, the Sisters of Nazareth are closing the doors of Nazareth House in San Rafael.

The annual collection for the Retirement Fund for Religious will take place in parishes at Masses on Dec. 12-13, 2020. The appeal assists elderly sisters, brothers, and priests in religious orders. Nearly 30,000 senior religious benefit from the proceeds.