On the Street Where You Live
By Tom Burke
More than 300 parishioners and friends from San Francisco's Sts. Peter and Paul Parish descended upon Stafford Lake in Novato for the Ninth Annual Madonna del Lume Italian Family Picnic.
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Father Edward Stackpoole, SJ: a man of charity and wisdom
By Tom Burke
Jesuit Father Edward Vincent Stackpoole, a former superior of the Jesuit Community at the University of San Francisco and a teacher at the school for 32 years, died July 18 at Sacred Heart Jesuit Center in Los Gatos.
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Shannon Rowbury: From 'off the radar' to Olympic Games
Special to Catholic San Francisco
Former stand - out athlete at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and recent inductee into the San Francisco Prep Hall of Fame, Shannon Rowbury qualified for the 2008 Olympic Track and Field Team by winning the Olympic Trials' 1500 meters on July 6 in 4 minutes, 5.48 seconds.
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St. Robert Parish celebrates 50th anniversary
By Tom Burke
St. Robert Parish in San Bruno celebrated its 50th year with a Mass of Thanksgiving and a family style barbecue June 8.
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St. Mary's Chinese Schools and Center receive $1 million for capital campaign
A gift of $1 million for the support of St. Mary's Chinese Schools and Center Capital Campaign was presented to Archbishop George H. Niederauer by May Louie on behalf of herself and her husband, Sinclair Louie, during a July 1 luncheon hosted by the Schools and Center at the Empress of China in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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Meeting to focus on parish councils, homilies, 'women's voices'
By Rick DelVecchio
The Northern California Lay Convocation will hold its second annual meeting Sept. 6 at the University of San Francisco.
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St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises transforming lives
Five hundred years ago a seed of the Spiritual Exercises was planted in the Church by Ignatius of Loyola. Five hundred years later people continue to experience the graces of Ignatius' conversion by making the Exercises.
- Mercy Sister Lorita Moffatt
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Headed to Beijing
Sayaka Matsumoto, a 2001 graduate of St. Mary's High School, Berkeley, will compete at the Olympic Games in Beijing as a member of the U.S. Olympic Wrestling and Judo team. The El Cerrito resident is a seven - time national champion and four - time Pan Am medalist.
'Mosaic' interviews Russoniello
Joseph Russoniello, U.S. Attorney for Northern California, joins Tom Burke and the wider community on "Mosaic," Aug. 3 at 5 a.m. on KPIX CBS 5. Fun and formality fill the 30 - minute program in a broad discussion of Russoniello's now more than 40 - year legal career as well as his lifetime as a lay Catholic.
Church celebrating 150th anniversary of Lourdes
By Tom Burke
One hundred fifty years ago the Blessed Mother appeared 18 times over a period of six months to young Bernadette Soubirous in Lourdes, France, a spot marked today by miraculous cures of the sick and visits by several million pilgrims each year.
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Catholic advocates tame 'stealth' assisted - suicide
By Rick DelVecchio
For the fourth time in as many years, Catholic bishops and health - care providers have staved off an end - of - life bill proposed by advocates of physician - assisted suicide.
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Power of the Holy Spirit
By Pope Benedict XVI
"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you." We have seen this promise fulfilled!
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'Religion and Politics - 2008 '
Archbishop addresses Church role in civic arena
The following statement by Archbishop George H. Niederauer, " Religion and Politics - 2008, " was released in 2007.
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Obituary: Former Riordan teacher dies
Marianist Brother William McCall, a teacher and champion of the speech and debate program in the 1960s at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, died of cancer in Cupertino on July 9, 2008. He was 81.
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Guest Commentary: American Catholic structural polarization
By George Wesolek
Like the certainty of winter coming after fall, further polarization in the Catholic community will happen during this presidential election season.
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Letters to the Editor
Father Baumann praised
I was pleased to see mention in the "Street" column for July 11 of Father Anthony Baumann, OFM, who died in January of this year. However, I was surprised that nothing was written about his many years as a healthcare chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco.
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Potpourri: Reflections on purgatory and eternity
There is nothing quite as bittersweet as a funeral for a family member or close friend. Flowers and hymns, laughter and tears, eulogies recalling the grace, wit and wisdom of the departed are de rigueur for all - except the deceased.
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Lourdes: 'God is very much the God of surprises'
By Dan Morris - Young
Oblate Father Martin Moran issues what sounds like a spiritual guarantee: lives of pilgrims to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France have a "
99 percent" chance of improving.
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Music, liturgy convention set for LA
Musicians, liturgists, clergy and parish ministry leaders will gather at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles Aug. 5 - 8 for the National Pastoral Musicians ( NPM ) Western Regional Convention.
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High - profile speakers set for Humane Vitae event
A cadre of well - known speakers will be featured at an Aug. 9 conference marking the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae on the campus of St. Mary's College, Moraga.
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Festival of Flowers attracts internationally known figure
Internationally known Presbyterian minister, the Rev. William McMillan, will be a featured participant in the Second Annual Festival of Flowers at St. Mary's Cathedral this fall.
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San Francisco Symphony's finale: first rate
By Father Basil DePinto
Time was, the end of June would have been long past the end of the musical season. Now, happily, music lovers are not so deprived; hence, the San Francisco Symphony regaled its patrons with a fine series the week before the Fourth of July, and with a first - rate American maestro at that.
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August Catholic Bestsellers list topped by Catechism
Hardcover
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Doubleday ( 9780385508193 )
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Five - day interfaith conference set for July 24 - 28
By Michael Vick
As part of a five - day interfaith conference, the San Francisco Interfaith Council will host a banquet 6:30 p.m. July 27 at St. Mary's Cathedral. The banquet will be held in conjunction with the 20th anniversary gathering of the North American Interfaith Network, and will honor religion scholar Huston Smith.
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Role of Church, politics
addressed by Archbishop
By Dan Morris - Young
Acknowledging the " high level of political consciousness and energy " in the Archdiocese of San Francisco as a backdrop, Archbishop George H. Niederauer has issued a pastoral letter on the role of the Church in the political arena.
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Father Jim Garcia - moving from pastor to monastic
By Rick DelVecchio
Father James Garcia, 63, will arrive at the Abbey of the Holy Trinity in Huntsville, Utah, on Aug. 1, fulfilling a long - held desire to deepen his relationship with God and to discern if he is called to monasticism for the rest of his life.
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