San Francisco Archives

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

Nov 16, 2020

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.”

By Catholic News Service

Archbishop Cordileone plans exorcism at church where Serra statue was toppled

Oct 14, 2020

San Francisco’s archbishop plans to conduct an exorcism Oct. 17 at the site of a now-toppled statue of St. Junipero Serra at St. Rafael Mission Church in San Rafael.

By Catholic News Service

San Francisco archbishop leads hundreds in rosary rally through city streets

Oct 7, 2020

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone led between 600 and 700 people in a rosary rally through the city’s Mission District Oct. 3, the vigil of the feast of San Francisco’s patron saint, St. Francis of Assisi.

By Catholic News Service

Game of chess helps Catholic school students discern their next move

Oct 4, 2020

A retired special education teacher recently named coordinator of the San Francisco Archdiocese’s African American ethnic ministry sees chess as an academic, social and spiritual game changer for students today.

By Christina Gray

Archbishop: San Francisco’s new indoor worship limit a ‘victory,’ but effort not over

Oct 1, 2020

As of Sept. 30, the city of San Francisco is allowing attendance for indoor worship to be 25 percent of the capacity of a house of worship, or up to 100 people, which follows the limit set by the state of California as part of its COVID-19 safety protocols.

By Catholic News Service

San Francisco warned ‘draconian’ limits on worship may violate Constitution

Sep 29, 2020

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco thanked the U.S. Department of Justice for its three-page letter sent Sept. 25 to Mayor London Breed calling on her to “promptly” end discriminating against religious believers by loosening the city’s harsh restrictions on houses of worship.

By Catholic News Service

Cordileone: ‘Unrealistic’ limits on public worship ‘willful discrimination’

Sep 21, 2020

San Francisco’s archbishop told hundreds of Catholics gathered near City Hall Sept. 20 that “it is because of our Catholic faith that we are being put at the end of the line” by city officials in enacting what could be the country’s harshest pandemic restrictions on religious worship.

By Catholic News Service

Pelosi to San Francisco archbishop: ‘Follow science’ on COVID-19 restrictions

Sep 19, 2020

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Friday against the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco’s criticism of COVID-related restrictions, saying he should “follow science” rather than advocate for fuller in-person gatherings for Mass and worship.

By Lisa Mascaro