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CLEVELAND -- It's a little more than five weeks from Election Day and the campaigns of Democrat Joe Biden and Republican President Donald Trump are making a final push for Catholic votes.

In a personal testimony of faith written in February 2018 for his home parish, St. Catherine of Siena in a suburb of New Orleans, Deacon Mike Coney shared how “pivotal moments” of his life -- both decisions and experiences - came to shape his life and his relationship with God.

Religious services in San Francisco can reopen indoors at 25% capacity, up to 100 people, Mayor London Breed announced Sept. 29.

Conversion is an ongoing process that relies on God's endless patience and grace, Pope Francis said.

Alice Boland Asturias, a well-known voice in programs of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the first woman president of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, died Sept. 21, 2020. She was 105 years old.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Sept. 25 warned San Francisco officials that current restrictions on public worship in the city may be unconstitutional.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis told the United Nations Friday that denying the existence of human life in the womb through abortion does not solve problems.

A Catholic cathedral in California was defaced overnight, with swastikas, an upside-down cross, and other messages spray-painted on the church’s doors and entryways.

The Spanish Conference of Religious has announced that September 29 will be observed as a day of prayer for the 357 religious who have died from the novel coronavirus during the pandemic in Spain.

Catholic leaders and academics have voiced their support following President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said Sunday that the Christian life requires concrete commitments and spiritual combat in order to grow in holiness. “There is no path to holiness without some renunciation and without spiritual combat,” Pope Francis said in his Angelus address Sept. 27.

MEXICO CITY -- Organizers of the first international virtual pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe said the social media livestream of the event reached more than 3 million people, including 106 groups.

The Knights of Columbus announced Tuesday a “Novena for the Cause of Life” as part of Respect Life Month, observed in October.

In an essay published this month, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield in Illinois argued that months-long lockdowns in response to the coronavirus are an extraordinary means of saving life, and are therefore not morally obligatory and should not be coerced by the state.

No matter how rich or poor, no matter whether newly arrived or from families that have been here for many generations, it is our Catholic faith that unites us, and it is because of our Catholic faith that we are being put at the end of the line.

The archdiocese’s African American ethnic ministry sees chess as an academic, social and spiritual game changer for students from all backgrounds.

Notre Dame Sister Barbara Hamm died on Aug. 29, 2020 at Mercy Retirement & Care Center in Oakland. In 2019 she celebrated her 75th anniversary as a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur. She was 93 years old.

WASHINGTON — Just hours before the sixth federal execution took place this year, and two days before the next one was scheduled, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen called on the government to end this practice.

VATICAN CITY — The world will not overcome the current crisis if only big businesses, financial institutions and the powerful have a voice, Pope Francis said.

MONTREAL -- The Quebec government took religious leaders by surprise by announcing Sept. 20 that the maximum number of people allowed to participate in an event in a place of worship would be lowered from 250 to 50 in all regions of the province, starting Sept. 21.