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900-plus attend Archdiocese of San Francisco event for formerly incarcerated, crime victims
A record 900-plus people attended the Sept. 8 Archdiocese of San Francisco’s 11th annual Reentry Conference, Resource and Job Fair, aimed at helping those recently released from prison or jail,… Read More
Uniform Solidarity
Annual Mass honoring San Francisco’s first responders began nearly 80 years ago after historic hotel fire
Chief of Hope & Love
After one year at the helm of Catholic Charities, Ellen Hammerle talks about “rebuilding” from the inside out after COVID-19
Catholic high schools: Grounded in faith and committed to academic excellence
When a student enters one of our Catholic high schools, they are treated as one of God’s beloved children, created in His image and likeness, and as such, inherently good.… Read More
Sin and Suffering
Pope St. John Paul II continues his meditation on suffering by discussing one of the causes of suffering — evil in the form of personal sin. He writes: “The conscious… Read More
Rediscovering a sense of Eucharistic Adoration in silence
We must rediscover the sense of adoration in silence. It is a form of prayer that we have lost. Too few people know what it is. It is up to… Read More
How baseball imitates the spiritual life
It seems that when we truly love things, our heart struggles to find similarities between those things. Perhaps that is why I am often struck by how much baseball resembles… Read More
These cloistered nuns who never leave the convent are at WYD for the first time
Four Perpetual Adoration Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament from the congregation’s community in San Francisco shared their personal experiences with EWTN News at World Youth Day which took place in… Read More
Rev. Msgr. J. Warren Holleran 1928 – 2023
Rev. Msgr. J. Warren Holleran, after a long illness, died on July 30, 2023 at the age of 95.
Blessed Carlo Acutis: Inspiring teenager knew Eucharist is the ‘highway to heaven’
The Italian teenager Blessed Carlo Acutis has captivated Catholics young and old in recent years, especially since his 2020 beatification. Although only 15 when he died of leukemia, Carlo was… Read More
Young Spirits
“When you share about your own life and how God has worked miracles in it, I think that story is a way to reach youth and young adults.”

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