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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. 

Most Holy Redeemer Parish Black History Month display opens conversations on race.

St. Mary's Cathedral deacon hosting an educational lecture series on the foster father of Jesus this Lent.

Father Wilton Smith, retired pastor of St. Veronica Church in South San Francisco, died Feb. 12, 2021 at Golden Home Extended Care in San Rafael. Father Smith was a priest for 62 years and 88 years old.

The following instruction with regard to fulfillment of Ash Wednesday rites was circulated to parishes by Father Andrew Spyrow, vicar for clergy, and Laura Bertone, director of worship, on behalf of Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone.

Though the end of the pandemic is still a tiny light at the end of a long tunnel, Father Roger Gustafson wants the lives of St. Hilary parishioners to have been changed for the better by it.

Shelter in Faith will meet weekly online Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. beginning Feb. 10 through March 31. It is free and open to anyone at any time throughout the series.

The San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women decided COVID-19 would not interfere with fundraising that last year let the ACCW help retired priests, the seminary, Catholic charities and pregnancy centers.

Margi English, a former executive director of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco, has been named partner for institutional development for the Leadership Roundtable.

Msgr. Maurice ‘Mickey’ McCormick, retired pastor of Mission Dolores Parish, died Jan. 29, 2021. His health had been slowly declining since he was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease some years ago.  Ordained in 1958, he would have celebrated his 87th birthday on Feb. 5, 2021.

Notre Dame de Namur University announced Jan. 26, 2021 that the school will remain open beyond spring 2021. The announcement followed a meeting of the NDNU board of trustees where the vote was unanimous that the school continue operations.

The pastor of St. Patrick Parish and School in Larkspur is in his second year of a three-year leadership role for the society that began October 2019.

Kindergarten students at St. Dunstan School virtually added a few new animals to the Nativity stable for Advent 2020.

Dear Faithful People of God of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Please join with me to pray and to do penance on Jan. 22, the day that the U.S. bishops have designated the “Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children.”

Star of the Sea Church has announced the re-opening of the parish elementary school as Stella Maris Academy in Fall 2021.