Dominican Sister Judy Lu McDonnell, OP, left, and Lyn Kirkconnell, right, co-creators of the congregation’s peace, justice and care for creation efforts, were among the local Catholic sisters who received a public service award in August for combating human trafficking.

Ryan Quock, the assistant leader for youth ministry at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco, received the Eagle Scout award in a ceremony Aug. 17.

Five years after his own ordination into the permanent diaconate, Deacon Fuad “Fred” Totah has begun the role of director of diaconate formation for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

When Natalie Cirigliano Brosnan graduated as valedictorian of Mercy High School Burlingame in 2002, school shootings, student anxiety and depression were an anomaly. Social media, with its well-documented influence on both, did not yet exist.

When the time came for Sandy Grees, an incoming junior at Sacred Heart High School in Atherton, to do her final class project in social ethics class this year, she remembered the 2017 headlines about the humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia caused by the violent displacement of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country.