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Catholics in San Francisco marched in eucharistic processions across the city on Sunday to protest the city’s continued restrictions on public worship.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone penned an op-ed in the Washington Post this week citing the First Amendment as he called for city officials to relax the current restrictions on public worship, which are some of the strictest in the country.

QUEBEC CITY -- Cardinal Gerald Lacroix asked parishes in the Archdiocese of Quebec to "pause" their catechetical programs to give them the time they need to think about what comes next.

WASHINGTON -- Authorities in El Paso, Texas, have apprehended a suspect who is said to have entered the border city's St. Patrick Cathedral Sept. 15 and destroyed an almost 90-year statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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.

WASHINGTON -- Pro-life leaders should prioritize listening and understanding in order to make inroads in the Black community, Black pro-life advocate Benjamin Watson said.

SAN ANTONIO -- Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio said that "we do not know exactly what God has in store for us," but he hopes that while "we wait and work" for this COVID-19 crisis to be over, it will not "just be an episode in history from which we recovered."

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.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis thanked sick and elderly priests for their quiet witness to the Gospel Thursday in a message that conveyed the sanctifying value of frailty and suffering. 

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is inviting Catholics to join in a novena and to watch Masses online this weekend in preparation for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. ​​​​​​​

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. 

WASHINGTON -- A Pew Research Center study released in September shows that teens' religious practice is less than that of their parents. The lessened observance cuts across all denominational lines.

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.

HOUSTON -- When people see their homes destroyed by flood or other disaster that forces them into a shelter, they need someone to listen to them, said priests and deacons who serve on a newly formalized ministry recently approved by Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.

NEW YORK -- The worldwide coronavirus pandemic cast an unmistakable shadow over an otherwise hopeful prayer service Sept. 14 on the eve of the opening of the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis Wednesday led a moment of silent prayer for Fr. Roberto Malgesini, a 51-year-old priest who was stabbed to death in Como, Italy, Sept. 15.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is urging Catholics to gather Sept. 20 for a Eucharistic procession through San Francisco as a public show of faith and has called on the city to loosen its restrictions on outdoor Masses. 

If people took seriously the Gospel call to forgive one another, the world would be a much better place, Pope Francis said.

The Catholic bishops of California have announced a yearlong initiative to address personal and systematic racism, both in the Church and wider society.