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A brief dip into Latin helps us understand how preconceptions can lead to biased judgments that falsify history — as they did when an Australian Royal Commission on sexual abuse recently impugned the integrity of Cardinal George Pell.

He taught us how to pray while not knowing how to pray. That’s a comment sometimes made about Henri Nouwen.

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone with the Office of Vicar for Clergy has announced the following clergy assignments effective tentatively July 1, 2020 except as noted.

Father Kenneth Westray, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco, died June 24, 2020. Ordained in 1981, he was 68 years old.

Jesuit Father Daniel R. Kendall died May 26, 2020 at his order’s Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos.

Sister Jeanenne Weis (Sister Paula Jean) died May 13, 2020 in Saratoga.

Calling her a “lifelong learner” Notre Dame de Namur University honored Rosemary E. Finnerty with its “Inspirational Academic Excellence” award in special ceremonies at the new alumna’s home May 6.

Oakland’s Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California announced a telemedicine expansion May 6 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting patients from visiting the facility in person.

Sister Maureen Petrone died on April 1, 2020 in Los Angeles. Sister Maureen was 75 years old and a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet for 57 years.

Father Raymund Reyes and Father Andrew Spyrow, vicars for clergy, announced clergy assignments on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone April 21, 2020.

Notre Dame de Namur University announced April 2, 2020 that in cooperation with its “suspending admissions for summer and fall 2020” it will focus “on helping as many current students as possible to finish degrees at NDNU by spring 2021.” For students who cannot graduate by then the school said it is “working actively to create transfer pathways to other institutions.”

The pre-Christmas phase of the eighth annual SF Turkey Drive at St. Emydius Church in the Ingleside District of San Francisco will be held Dec. 21 from 9 a.m. till noon in the parking lot across from the church at 350 De Montfort Ave.

The pastor and faithful at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato welcomed the news that Pope Francis has decreed a new optional feast, Dec. 10, to honor their patron saint.

Fridays won’t be the same for a small community of Marin County Catholics. The Catholic Marin Breakfast Club, founded by a local parishioner in 1994 to bring local Catholics together one Friday morning a month for Mass, a speaker of interest to the faithful and breakfast, gathered for a final time on May 3 at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae.