A woman was in critical condition after being shot on Clinton Park near the Mission District in San Francisco Sunday evening, according to police. According to the San Francisco Police Department ...

MaryAlice Cardenas raises sage as she participates in the Native American Inter-Trbal Group drum circle opening during Friday ...

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Pan’s Labyrinth” embodies the core tension of Catholic life: the push and pull between the eternal and the worldly.

When it opened in early 2015, the complex represented San Francisco’s first new hospitals in 30 years. Mission Bay’s crumbling railyards and large dirt lots had given way to four new medical ...

But the extent of the Saints’ backing of the local Roman Catholic Church and the nature of the team’s work are atypical. The Archdiocese of New Orleans is also currently under investigation by ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

Pope Francis offers guidance on evaluating and responding to disaster through his encyclicals Laudato Si' and Fratelli Tutti.

Taken Sept. 12, 2022. San Francisco Sen. Scott Wiener and Mayor Daniel Lurie will announce today the reintroduction of a state bill that allows local police to enforce fencing operations of suspected ...

When Buster Posey took over as president of baseball operations for the San Francisco Giants, he knew he was going to have his work cut out for him. The The San Francisco Giants have invited top ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin or Roman ...

The Igreja de São Francisco looks rather plain on the outside ... vaulted ceilings and walls of this church, which started to take shape in 1245. A traveler favorite amid the luster is the ...