From the Archbishop’s Desk

Archdiocese of San Francisco

June 19, 2022

Our World Needs Men to Become Fathers to the Fatherless

This Father’s Day, we are still burying bodies and healing wounds from the latest round of mass slaughter of our schoolchildren in Uvalde, Texas. In a recent letter to Congress, I joined Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop Thomas Daly and Archbishop William Lori in a letter calling on Congress to adopt reasonable gun control legislation as part of the solution…

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“The Gift of the Real Presence of Christ in Its Fullness”

Imagine if you will what it must have been like for those first generations of Christians living in the pagan Roman Empire.  They were a new religion, a small sect that was seen as not fitting in, and even subversive.  And not unlike us Catholics today, those first ancestors of ours also had to deal with misunderstandings. 

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