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Winner, winner, Rice-A-Roni dinner? Bishops bet on the Super Bowl
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Feb 10, 2024 / 06:00 am It’s a tradition for the Catholic bishops from the two cities sending teams to the Super Bowl to make a friendly wager before the big game. With the Kansas City Chiefs back in their fourth Super Bowl in five years …
A cardinal, an archbishop, and a bishop reveal their vocation stories
By Joe Bukuras CNA Staff, Dec 17, 2023 / 09:00 am Serving at the altar for Venerable Fulton J. Sheen played a major role in one U.S. cardinal’s vocational journey. For another bishop, falling to his knees at the tomb of St. Peter was a pivotal moment. And an archbishop said …
Assault at San Francisco Catholic church leads to police pursuit, reported pipe bomb
By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Oct 30, 2023 / 15:48 pm An assault at a San Francisco Catholic church on Sunday led to a police pursuit that reportedly included the possible use of a pipe bomb. The San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA), a local police union, said on X on Sunday …
Cordileone, Strickland condemn ‘scurrilous’ false schism message
By Daniel Payne Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 17, 2023 / 15:30 pm San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Diocese of Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland on Sunday both publicly condemned a message falsely attributed to Strickland that appeared to advocate schism from the Catholic Church. Earlier in the month an image …
Archbishop Cordileone responds to criticism that he’s ‘politicizing the Eucharist’
by CNA Staff Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 23, 2022 / 19:47 pm San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Monday responded to criticism that he is “politicizing” the Eucharist by denying Nancy Pelosi Holy Communion, saying he would prefer the Democratic House Speaker remain in office “and become an advocate for …
Archbishop Cordileone tells priests that Nancy Pelosi Communion denial is ‘pastoral, not political’
“Those who live among us without a permanent home, then, provide us a powerful reminder that we are people on pilgrimage, that this is not our true home,” said Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone during a homily in a Requiem Mass for the homeless on November 6, 2021. | Dennis Callahan By …
Catholic school defends importance of pro-life assembly boycotted by students
by Jonah McKeown San Francisco, Calif., Nov 3, 2021 / 11:19 am Students at a Catholic high school in San Francisco staged a walkout last month to protest an all-school assembly which featured a pro-life speaker. Despite the students’ actions, the school’s president defended the talk as “an opportunity to …
San Francisco archbishop clarifies Pelosi’s papal visit not an endorsement of her abortion views
by Christine Rousselle Washington D.C., Oct 14, 2021 / 10:05 am House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent meeting with Pope Francis does not signal a papal endorsement of her views on abortion, the archbishop of San Francisco said in a television interview on Oct. 13. Pope Francis met with Pelosi at …
Pelosi defends her support for legal abortion: ‘God has given us a free will’
by Matt Hadro Washington D.C., Sep 23, 2021 / 10:45 am House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday responded to her archbishop, who had said an abortion bill she is working to pass is tantamount to “child sacrifice.” The Women’s Health Protection Act, legislation that would override state abortion laws …
Archbishop Cordileone calls abortion bill ‘child sacrifice,’ urges prayer and fasting
by Joe Bukuras Washington D.C., Sep 22, 2021 / 10:00 am The Archbishop of San Francisco warned that an abortion bill to be voted on in Congress this week amounts to “child sacrifice.” He called on Catholics to pray and fast for the defeat of the bill. “This proposed legislation …