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Tom Burke was columnist of the popular "On the Street Where You Lived" page. He retired May 28 after 36 years with the archdiocese.

Deacon Case has been assigned to St. Catherine of Siena as associate pastor and as priest-chaplain at Junipero Serra High School. 

Tim Burke, admissions director at San Francisco’s Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory for 30 years, will retire at the end of the current school year.

More than three dozen students of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music were invited for an educational tour of the 50-year-old cathedral's architectural, engineering, artistic and spiritual marvels.

Dominican Sister Dolores Marie Calderwood died at the Dominican Sisters Motherhouse in Mission San Jose on May 22, 2021. She was 92 years old and in her 70th year as a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose.

On behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, Father Andrew Spyrow, vicar for clergy, announced the following clergy appointments on May 15, 2021.

Jack Hayes is one of the local recipients of the annual Jefferson Award for his hands-on help to the needy of Marin County.

Sister Mary Kay Moran, formerly known as Sister William Mary, died on April 12, 2021, at the Dominican Life Center in Adrian, Michigan.

The actors who performed the Stations of the Cross at Sacred Heart came from Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato.

​​​​​​​The St. Vincent de Paul Society was founded in 1833 Paris with a mission to help the poor face-to-face.

Students at Mercy High School in Burlingame were photographed March 1, 2021 and March 9, 2021 the first days back on campus for juniors and seniors.

St. Dominic pastor Father Michael Hurley talks about "Angels and Us" March 18 as part of a Wise Habits lecture series at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology.

Due to COVID-19 St. Hilary School students in Tiburon will pray the Stations of the Cross outdoors.

Convinced of the scholastic, social and spiritual superiority of in-person instruction, Catholic schools in the San Francisco Archdiocese have been doing extra homework to get students safely back in the classroom.

The day after Ash Wednesday, the delegates of the V Encuentro of Hispanic Pastoral -- representatives of the churches with religious services in Spanish in the Archdiocese of San Francisco -- participated in an event to prepare themselves for Lent. The day included talks on signs and symbols of the liturgical season and on personal conversion.

Local parishioners and others many more miles away are being guided through Lent this year with a new spiritual exercises program.

Michael Brown, associate publisher of Catholic San Francisco, died peacefully at his Peninsula home Feb. 21, 2021 following a long battle with cancer. He was 73.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone announced Feb. 25, 2021 the appointment of Father Mark Doherty as the new rector of St. Patrick’s Seminary & University. Father Doherty has been the interim rector since October, 2020.

Chinese New Year was celebrated Feb. 20, 2021, with a noon Mass in the parking lot of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco.

Salesian Father Robert E. Stein, a native Californian, died on Feb. 16, 2021 succumbing to COVID-19 at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco.