We have much to celebrate!
By Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone On July 4, 1776, American leaders gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, which firmly rooted our human rights in what we Catholics
January 8, 2026
By Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone On July 4, 1776, American leaders gathered in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, which firmly rooted our human rights in what we Catholics
By Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Advent is a time we prepare for the celebration of a great mystery of our faith: the Son of God coming into our world, the
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone COMMENTARY: Through this revelation, Mary gave birth to a new people. To survive and flourish, every great civilization needs to cherish the story of its origin.
By Valerie Schmalz St. Dunstan Church resonated with classical Catholic music in the soft light of early evening Oct. 3, as medical professionals gathered for the annual White Mass offered
Column for the September 2025 issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s Column for the 2025 Easter issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Archbishop Cordileone’s letter for the 2025 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal
Catholic Schools Week column for Catholic San Francisco magazine; January 2025
Christmas Column for the December 2024 Catholic San Francisco magazine
Column for the September 2024 issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Speaking to “Prime News” about his city’s degradation, Cordileone stated that “these problems have been around a long time.”
On August 14, the eve of the solemnity of the Assumption, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone installed Father Mark Doherty as pastor of the Church of the Nativity. The Mass also came as Nativity School began their school year the following day on August 15.
Column for the 2024 June issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine
Before the Sacramento portion, the pilgrimage will kick off in San Francisco with a May 19 bilingual Pentecost Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption celebrated by Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone. Immediately after, Cordileone and hundreds — perhaps thousands — of Catholics will process through the city’s streets with the Blessed Sacrament.
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the 2024 Lent/Easter issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Archbishop Cordileone’s column originally ran online in First Things.
As Catholics, we use our gifts and talents to serve and demonstrate our love for our neighbors. Indeed, instead of asking who our neighbors are, Catholics ask, “Is there anyone who is not our neighbor?”
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the 2024 Catholic Schools Week issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Esta Navidad, los animo a reclamar a Cristo como el centro de su vida. Para que la paz exista en nuestro mundo, el Príncipe de Paz debe reinar primero en nuestros corazones y hogares. El amor de Dios por nosotros y su deseo de que seamos felices con Él en el cielo sobrepasa nuestro entendimiento.
Esta Navidad, los animo a reclamar a Cristo como el centro de su vida. Para que la paz exista en nuestro mundo, el Príncipe de Paz debe reinar primero en nuestros corazones y hogares. El amor de Dios por nosotros y su deseo de que seamos felices con Él en el cielo sobrepasa nuestro entendimiento.
Archbishop Cordileone’s 2024 Christmas column for Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the October/November issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine.
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the 2024 September issue of Catholic San Francisco
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the 2024 June issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine
Clips of Archbishop Cordileone’s Wall Street Journal piece from June 2, 2023
Archbishop Cordileone’s column for the 20233 Lent/Easter issue of Catholic San Francisco magazine
Our Sunday Visitor covers Archbishop Cordileone’s visit to San Quentin State Prison
Archbishop Cordileone’s column published in the National Catholic Register.
As we celebrate our Catholic schools during Catholic Schools Week, we give thanks to God for the great mission entrusted to our Catholic schools to teach and evangelize. May our Catholic schools continue to show us what is possible when we align our work with the grace of God!
The union of husband and wife is unique: Together they make a baby, and their marriage is the best way to ensure that that baby grows up with both mother and father. Marriage is a good thing. Society needs this institution.
Sex and gender are among the most contentious topics of discussion within the Catholic Church today. For Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, a human connection is key to having the difficult conversations that often come with presenting Church teaching on the subject.
“Eucharist.” “Thanksgiving.” As Catholics, every day is to be a “thanksgiving” for us who worship our Eucharistic Lord and are conformed to Him in our reception of Him. This “thanksgiving” brings the immense gifts of freedom and mercy, even as it demands that we lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. The devout worship of the inmates of San Quentin State Prison teaches us this lesson in a concrete way, and for that I am very grateful this Thanksgiving.
This past August, Pope Francis traveled to a church in Rome that has opened a shelter for homeless transgender-identifying people. “No one should encounter injustice or be thrown away, everyone has dignity of being a child of God,” Sister Genevieve Jeanningros told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
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…
As members of the Body of Christ we belong to a universal Church, a worldwide Catholic family; this gives us the chance to reevaluate ourselves as a nation, as a people, as an archdiocese, as a parish, as a family and, finally, as individuals. Renewal is possible. But where do we start?
“The individual bishops as . . . member[s] of the episcopal college and legitimate successor[s] of the apostles, [are] obliged by Christ’s institution and command to be solicitous for the whole Church, and this solicitude, though it is not exercised by an act of jurisdiction, contributes greatly to the advantage of the universal Church. For it is the duty of all bishops to promote and to safeguard the unity of faith and the discipline common to the whole Church.”
In response to Pope Francis’ call for a Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Ukraine on Ash Wednesday, join Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in praying the rosary at
On April 15, 2019, Notre Dame Cathedral burned. You likely remember as I do this tense moment, when the whole world, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, looked on shocked and appalled as flames threatened to destroy sacred beauty.
Archbishop Riordan High School held an all-school assembly earlier this school year featuring pro-life activist Megan Almon. During the assembly, a number of students walked out in protest of the event. Archbishop Cordileone went to Riordan High School to meet with student leaders in small groups on November 8. What follows is the letter he sent to all students in preparation for these meetings.
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Published in the Marin Independent Journal In a Columbus Day press conference, activists called on Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli to drop all the charges
In this wide-ranging conversation on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast,” host Gloria Purvis speaks with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco about some of the most contested issues in the Catholic Church today. Gloria asks the archbishop about President Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis, his relationship with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the ongoing debate over Communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians and more.
It was an eventful summer. Among the many ups and downs, one of the downs for me was losing a very dear friend and priest mentor of mine since my years in the seminary. Msgr. Joseph Carroll, affectionately known by all simply as “Father Joe,” was famous in San Diego and beyond for his wonderful work with the homeless and the poor.
California lawmakers sully the good name of a Catholic saint. By Salvatore J. Cordileone and José H. Gomez California lawmakers have passed legislation to replace a statue of St. Junípero
Los legisladores de California ensucian el buen nombre de un santo católico. Salvatore J. Cordileone and José H. Gomez Los legisladores de California han aprobado una legislación para reemplazar una
Salvatore J. Cordileone Prominent politicians lost no time in reacting hyperbolically to the Supreme Court’s decision refusing to enjoin Texas’s new law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal
First Things The history of Catholic immigrants to the United States and their descendants is exemplary of the American dream, and intertwined with the Democratic party. I myself am a
Americans’ right to worship is being denied by governments. I won’t be silent anymore. The Washington Post I never expected that the most basic religious freedom, the right to worship
The Washington Post To the protesters who tore down his statue in Los Angeles this month, the priest, friar and saint Junípero Serra represents “hate, bigotry, and colonization,” as one activist
The apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” is the longest document of its kind; Pope Francis says that he “does not recommend a rushed reading,” and that “the greatest benefit … will come if each part is read patiently and carefully.” In my series of reflections, I have tried to highlight some of the document’s most significant themes and now, in this final piece, I wish to specifically address several of the Holy Father’s recommendations, and the response the archdiocese is making, or has made, to each.
In these articles reviewing Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” I have made reference to the relativistic culture in which we live, which tells us, in effect, that we create our own reality.
Pope Francis in “Amoris Laetitia,” as well as in both of the recent Synods on the Family, discussed at length a difficult reality of modern life: divorce and remarriage. Since Catholics frequently have misunderstandings about Church teaching on these issues, I think it important to address them here, to the extent that this brief format will allow.
In “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis notes the difficulties as well as the joys facing couples and families today. In this article I would like to address one of the most common questions of married life in our time, namely, that of the spacing of children within the spouses’ years of fertility in their marriage.
In my first reflection on “Amoris Laetitia” (the Joy of Love), I wrote of our Christian understanding of human nature, that we are made for love – to love and be loved – and are not primarily solitary individuals but fundamentally social beings, made for union and communion with others, and ultimately with God in heaven.
The Christian proclamation on the family is good news indeed.” These words are among the opening statements of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia (the Joy of Love). An Apostolic Exhortation is the document issued by the Pope following on a Synod of Bishops which recapitulates and gives direction to the deliberations of the participating bishops, a sort of universal pastoral plan for the specific topic treated at the Synod affecting the life and ministry of the Church. Amoris Laeititia, the longest such document yet, follows up on the Synods on the Family of 2014 and 2015.
Gretchen R. Crowe, OSV Newsweekly OSV Newsweekly recently interviewed Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, chairman ofthe USCCB subcommittee for the promotion and defense of marriage, on the themesincluded in the fourth chapter
Scott Shafer, KQED Newsfix In an interview with “KQED Newsroom” Friday, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone talked about sports, gay marriage and the power of Pope Francis, who last week was
Catholic World Report Blog In response to the Illinois legislature’s approval of a measure legalizing same-sex marriage in that state, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, chairman of the US bishops’ Subcommittee for
Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews Blog The archbishop who leads the U.S. bishops’ fight against same-sex “marriage” says the U.S. Supreme Court’s June rulings on marriage has renewed the bishops’ determination
Joe Garofoli, SFGate.com While much of liberal San Francisco awaits the Supreme Court’s decision on Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California, I also wanted to hear from someone
Letter to the Editor by Archbishop Salvatore J. CordileoneOpinion/Open Forum, San Francisco Chronicle No question that Wednesday was a game-changer for the Catholic Church. And lots of opinion-makers have been