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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.

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

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.

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. 

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. ​​​​​​​

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco said Friday that the city’s current restrictions on public worship show “callous unconcern” for people’s spiritual needs.

​​​​​​​Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is urging San Francisco officials to ease restrictions on public worship, saying the city’s “excessive limits” limits to curb COVID-19 are unfair and a deprivation of religious organizations’ First Amendment rights.

Archbishop Cordileone and 11 other priests celebrated concurrent, physically distant outdoor Masses on the St. Mary's Cathedral plaza at 9 a.m. Aug. 22. "We're doing the best we can" to provide Masses and the sacraments to the people of the archdiocese during pandemic restrictions, the archbishop said in a video message,

This weekend at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, five stations for outdoor Masses on the plaza are scheduled Sunday, Aug. 23, at 9 a.m., two each at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. (Spanish) and two at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. The 9 a.m. Sunday outdoor Mass schedule will continue until indoor Masses are allowed to resume.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is exhorting the faithful with the assistance of their priests to engage in focused prayer and penance during the difficult conditions that coronavirus has caused.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone encourages all parishes in the archdiocese to make the holy Mass available to parishioners during this time of church closure by holding Mass outdoors while observing the health and safety guidelines of the respective counties.

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone thanked priests of the archdiocese in a July 30 letter for their “continued pastoral care” to their people and reminded them to continue their care “always keeping with the local health orders of your county.”

Archbishop Salvatore. J. Cordileone and Metropolitan Gerasimos of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco have written a joint letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asking for her support for a House measure to support religious freedom for the Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt. The two prelates also issued a joint statement mourning the recent conversion of the historic Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, into a mosque.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is urging Catholics to fast every Friday for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has issued new instructions to the priests of the archdiocese, as churches in San Francisco and Marin Counties remain closed for public worship, and San Mateo County has been placed on the state's three-day watch list.

This week the Washington Redskins decided to change their name on the grounds it is derogatory to the Indigenous people of America. But what about our own hometown NFL team?  

To the protesters who tore down his statue in Los Angeles this month, the priest, friar and St. Junípero Serra represents “hate, bigotry and colonization,” as one activist put it. Nothing would have made Serra sadder, for the real man was a profound lover of all people and especially of the indigenous peoples he came to serve.

The Office of the Vicar for Clergy announced the following clergy appointments on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on July 16. Appointments were effective July 1, 2020 unless otherwise noted.

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