Category: San Francisco

Pelosi speaks of heartbreak after husband’s attack; bishops offer prayers

by bcadmin | Oct 31, 2022 | Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Catholic News Service, Catholic politicians, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Nancy Pelosi, News, San Francisco | 0 |

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her family is “heartbroken and traumatized by the life-threatening attack” on her husband, Paul, whom police said was “violently assaulted” at home early Oct. 28 by a man with a hammer.

Some bishops call San Francisco prelate ‘courageous’ for Pelosi statement

by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Abortion, Archbishop Cordileone, Communion, Featured, Nancy Pelosi, News, San Francisco, U.S. & World News | 0 |

A number of U.S. Catholic bishops praised San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for his “courageous” action in declaring May 20 that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is not “to be admitted” to Communion because of her stand on legalized abortion.

San Francisco prelate says no Communion for Pelosi over her abortion stand

by bcadmin | May 20, 2022 | Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Featured, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi, News, San Francisco, U.S. & World News | 0 |

San Francisco’s archbishop declared May 20 that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is not “to be admitted” to Communion unless and until she publicly repudiates “support for abortion ‘rights'” and goes to confession and receives absolution “for her cooperation in this evil.”

‘Walk for Peace’ in San Francisco urges end to violence, recalls lives lost

by bcadmin | Feb 12, 2022 | Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, peace, Restorative Justice, San Francisco, Violence | 0 |

Julio Escobar, Restorative Justice coordinator, explained the day was an important way of remembering those who don’t have others to remember them.

Prayer surrounding West Coast pro-life walk seen as critical part of event

by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2022 | Abortion, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, Bishop Michael Barber, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, March for Life, News, Roe v. Wade, San Francisco, the pro-life movement | 0 |

While the city of San Francisco was abuzz late Jan. 21 with weekends beginning, groups of young Catholics and Walk for Life West Coast pilgrims joyfully headed to the city’s North Beach neighborhood to pray that Friday evening.

Requiem Mass recalls homeless San Franciscans who died on the streets

by bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Homeless, News, San Francisco | 0 |

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone brought together San Francisco’s faith, civic and social service communities at St. Mary’s Cathedral for a special Mass he commissioned to pray for the souls of homeless people who died on the city’s streets.

No ‘devout Catholic’ can condone the killing of children in the womb, says archbishop

by bcadmin | Jul 27, 2021 | Archbishop Cordileone, Democrats, Devout Catholic, House Speaker, Hyde Amendment, Killing of children, Nancy Pelosi, News, San Francisco, U.S. & World News | 0 |

No one can claim “to be a devout Catholic and condone the killing of innocent human life, let alone have the government pay for it,” said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco.

First fully classical Catholic school in San Francisco to open

by bcadmin | Feb 6, 2021 | Catholic Schools, News, San Francisco, The Dispatch | 0 |

We are nearly the end of the annual National Catholic Schools Week, which began January 31st and ends tomorrow, February 6th. The National Catholic Educational Association describes it: “National Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration […]

People gather for life in person in San Francisco, online in Los Angeles

by bcadmin | Jan 25, 2021 | COVID-19, Eva Muntean, Gloria Purvis, News, OneLife speakers, Pelosi, pro-life, San Francisco, U.S. & World News, Walk for life, West Coast | 0 |

Organizers of the 17th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco Jan. 23 expected hundreds of attendees this year, figuring concerns about COVID-19 and political unrest would keep pro-lifers away.

‘Let my people worship,’ archbishop says after California church decision

by bcadmin | Dec 4, 2020 | Archbishop Cordileone, Gavin Newsom, Harvest International Ministry, Harvest Rock Church, News, San Francisco, Supreme Court, U.S. & World News, Worshiping safely | 0 |

In response to the Supreme Court’s Dec. 3 order saying federal judges should take another look at pandemic limits on California churches, San Francisco’s archbishop said: “The time is overdue for our civil officials to work with us and other churches on worshiping safely.”

Archbishop calls latest California church closures ‘blatant discrimination’

by bcadmin | Nov 30, 2020 | Archbishop Cordileone, Blatant discrimination, COVID-19 restrictions, Gavin Newsom, News, San Francisco, San Francisco Archdiocese, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco described as “blatant discrimination” a return by California to more severe COVID-19 restrictions that closed churches in two of the three counties that comprise the San Francisco Archdiocese.

Felony charges for statue vandals called ‘breakthrough moment for Catholics’

by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2020 | Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Archdiocese of San Francisco, California missions, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, San Francisco, St. Junipero Serra, Statues | 0 |

San Francisco’s archbishop called a district attorney’s decision to prosecute protesters arrested for toppling a St. Junipero Serra statue outside a Catholic church on charges of felony vandalism “a breakthrough moment for Catholics.”