“On the Street Where You Live” has appeared in every issue of Catholic San Francisco during its now 20 years of publication. My love of the theater and its music is what led me to suggest the title, grabbing the idea from “My Fair Lady’s” Freddy Eynsford-Hill solo of the same name. The product of the number of CSF issues until now times the usual word count of Street puts me at having the pleasure and opportunity so far to gab here 600,000 words worth. Sad to say, especially for me, that’s where the number will stay for a bit as I move into a period of disability having been diagnosed with cancer. The doctors are hopeful and so am I.

Monica Williams, director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has been appointed president of the Catholic Cemetery Conference, a national organization founded in 1949 to support leadership of Catholic cemeteries around the nation.

Kathy Folan came to her position as director of Family and Children/Youth Ministries at San Francisco’s St. Dominic Parish after more than 20 years as a stay-at-home mom. She’s been in the new job since the feast of St. Dominic, Aug. 8, 2017. “My husband and I have directed our own children’s faith formation as we raised them,” Kathy told me via email. “We chose Catholic schools for their education, as we believe our faith life is an integral part of a well-rounded education.”

It’s said that priests never really retire and thanks to the work of care managers for retired priests it can be said they never leave our sight. Rachel Alvelais, manager of Serra Clergy House in San Mateo for the last four years, joined the “care team” in 2017. We spoke via email.

You know how you sometimes think you know everything about something but then new information crosses your path? That is exactly the case with me and the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County.