"Why should I get involved?”

 

We call this SoNoGo - South Park-North Park-Golden Hill & Our Mission: to see the baptized who live in SoNoGo worship in SoNoGo

New wesite: https://www.stpatrickschurchsd.org/ 

Saint Patrick Catholic Parish

The Catholic Church Explained

We, the church of Saint Patrick, in the community of North Park,

of the Roman Catholic Diocese and City of San Diego,

declare this to be our primary mission:

to come together to celebrate the Eucharist,

hear God’s word proclaimed,

give praise and thanksgiving to God,

and develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

We believe that by freely sharing our faith, talents, and treasures,

we discover Christ’s presence among us and bring Him to others.

We have a strong desire to give and receive love, service, peace, support,

and fellowship, within our families, our parish, our community, and the world.

Open to the power of the Holy Spirit, we pursue this mission faithfully and lovingly.

Someone is “vindicated” when they are proven innocent

 

Father’s heart, longing and working for unity

 

Bishop vs. Opus Dei

 

Gang Attacks Church, Kills Dozens in Haiti

Leo XIV Reforms the Code of Canon Law: Synods May Remove the Patriarch or Major Archbishop in Eastern Catholic Churches

ZENIT Staff

The reform, contained in the apostolic letter issued on August 29 under the title Mutua Concordia, changes canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It took effect immediately

Vatican official stresses the importance of rest as part of mental health in the life of a priest

ZENIT Staff

The Priest Who Never Stops? Vatican Official Says Rest Is Part of the Mission

Canadian Cardinal Accused of Abuse Is Found Not Guilty: Slanderer Must Pay Him $100,000

Tim Daniels

Cardinal Ouellet Wins Defamation Case

The Remarkable Case of the Asian Diocese Surpassing 1,000 Priests: A Success Achieved by God Through the Laity

Alma Recinas

While numerous European dioceses are merging and closing seminaries, one diocese in Korea has reached the milestone of 1,000 priests, supported by a vast community praying for vocations.

Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

Valentina di Giorgio

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas’s account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference

Mexico’s Churches Become Places of Hope as the Search for the Missing Reaches 135,000

Enrique Villegas

That is why the Mexican Church’s intervention has increasingly focused not only on prayer, but also on presence

These are not isolated incidents: Violence by Israelis against Palestinian Christians (and others) is on the rise

ZENIT Staff

The Holy Land’s Quiet Emergency, Caused By Israel : Christians Warn That Fear, Restrictions and Displacement Are Reshaping Their Future

Pope Leo XIV Approves a New Bishop Appointed by the Chinese Government for a Diocese in That Country

ZENIT Staff

The episcopal ordination of Fr Paul Liu Honggang, 56, took place today, the first in over 20 years for this diocese in Shanxi. The appointment was made under the China-Vatican agreement. After the expulsion of the missionaries, a local priest, Father Guo Yingong, kept the faith alive even during the Cultural Revolution.

Gang Attacks Church, Kills Dozens in Haiti

ZENIT Staff

Dozens of families who were displaced by ongoing violence within Port-au-Prince, the capital city, were hiding in the church’s prayer center. According to a statement from the secretary general, at least 22 people were executed within the church’s walls.

The Vatican’s silence marks a setback for the progressive German Church: the Synodal Conference will not go ahead

ZENIT Staff

The proposed conference would be unusually powerful in appearance. Its planned membership consists of Germany’s 27 diocesan bishops, 27 representatives of the Central Committee of German Catholics and another 27 elected Catholics. All 81 members would have equal voting rights.

‘God is good’

International apostolate seeks to consecrate businesses to Sacred Heart in Bridgeport Diocese

Bishop Frank Caggiano spearheaded a guild to transform local businesses by placing God at the center.

Abuse settlement in Diocese of Ogdensburg will total $83 million with insurance contributions

Parishes in the New York diocese will also undergo a notable bankruptcy proceeding called “rapid pre-pack Chapter 11.”

‘God is good’: One of the internet’s most popular nonbelievers announces his return to the Church

Joe Schmid ran a highly popular agnostic YouTube channel for years, but “a gift of God’s grace” has led him back to the faith.

Church in Nepal helping flood victims find hope, apostolic administrator says

Although a small minority in Nepal, the Catholic Church through Caritas is providing what aid it can to help to those affected by the major flooding.

Catholic conversions surge on college campuses

Pope Leo XIV: Attendance at Sunday Mass cannot be replaced by virtual participation Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics to prioritize attending Sunday Mass, warning that active participation in the Eucharist cannot be replaced by virtual gatherings... Read more

‘It’s Always the Holy Spirit’: Meet 3 Dioceses Seeing Large Numbers of Priestly Ordinations  What drives a young man to discern into the priesthood — a supportive family, a vibrant parish, a proactive pastor, an outspoken bishop? Father John Eckert’s response: “Yes.”.... Read more

Parishioners Throw Porch Party for 90-Year-Old ‘Parish Legend’ Friends, neighbors and priests in Garden City, New York, honor Bob MacStoker, whose lifelong faith and Marian devotion have inspired generations at St. Anne’s.... Read more

Catholic conversions surge on college campuses, Hallow data shows Registration for the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA) has “more than doubled” on college campuses across the country as Catholic conversions continue to rise, according to recent data.... Read more

Before Mother Angelica Built EWTN, She Found Healing Through Rhoda Wise’s Prayers As the canonization cause for American mystic and Servant of God Rhoda Wise took a major step forward this month...the stigmatist’s deep connection to EWTN cannot be overlooked.   Read more

Marian Days: Vietnamese Catholic Pilgrims Gather in Missouri | EWTN News In Depth Every summer, tens of thousands of Vietnamese American Catholics gather in Carthage, Missouri, for Marian Days, one of the largest annual Catholic gatherings in the United States... Watch

The Controversial Vatican-China Agreement on Bishops | EWTN News Nightly The Vatican announced two Chinese bishops appointed in July by Pope Leo XIV under the provisional agreement between the Holy See and China. There are now 16 Chinese bishops appointed under this agreement, one of the most controversial... Watch

Full Exclusive Interview: Bishop Robert Boxie, America’s Youngest Bishop | EWTN News In Depth  In his first extended interview since his appointment, Bishop Robert Boxie III, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Washington, shares how he went from D.C. lawyer to Catholic priest to America’s youngest bishop at just 45 years old.... Watch

What American Christianity Gets Wrong About Justice

 

Sep 2, 2026 The Russell Moore Show

In American Christianity, questions of personal morality and public justice are often treated as though they belong in different categories. Christians may speak confidently about some moral issues while dismissing others as distractions from the gospel or as politics the church should avoid. Charlie Dates’ new book, What Hath Justice to Do with Righteousness?, challenges that distinction. Scripture, he argues, doesn’t allow Christians to choose between personal holiness and concern for the people and communities around them.

The River and Its Source

 

No commentary — my own least of all — can do complete justice to the words of the Holy Father himself. I have therefore woven links throughout this essay to Pope Leo’s own addresses, and gathered links to all eight of his catecheses on Sacrosanctum Concilium at the end, exactly as they appear on the Vatican’s website. I ask the reader to go to the source: to read the Holy Father whole, in his own words. What follows is offered as a companion to that reading, and never as a substitute for it.

In the early centuries of the Church, when the newly baptized rose dripping from the font on Easter night, their instruction was not finished but only begun. In the days that followed, the bishop would gather these newly baptized and lead them back through the mysteries they had just received — the water, the oil, the bread and the cup — unfolding what the sacred rites had worked in them and for them. This was mystagogy: the opening of the sacramental mysteries to those newly admitted to them. At Jerusalem, in the very shadow of the Anastasis, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Saint Cyril delivered such catecheses to his neophytes in the octave of Easter — and by God’s providence we possess them still, luminous homilies that lead the Christian from the sign he has seen to the grace he cannot. Ambrose did the same at Milan, Chrysostom for his own neophytes and Augustine in his Cathedral in Hippo. It was the golden age of the mystagogue: the bishop as the one who takes the faithful by the hand and walks them into the holy of holies.

Across these past months, Pope Leo XIV has taken up that same ancient office — only now the neophytes are the whole Church, the newly baptized and the long baptized alike. In an age that has largely lost the capacity to read its own rites, that stands before sign and symbol — as Romano Guardini lamented, and as Leo himself would recall — no longer knowing how to see, the universal pastor has become mystagogue to all the faithful, opening the riches of the sacred liturgy. He has done it not as a scholar defending a thesis, nor as a partisan in a quarrel, but as a father leading his children deeper into the mystery that feeds them. This is the pope’s pivotal office as teacher: not to win an argument, but to open a door.

‘Demonic oppression’ and ‘girly convos’

Wendell Berry’s vision of a sacred world*
The Christian Century: Experience, reading, and the daily rounds of farm work taught Wendell that scripture is correct: Every creature and every inch of earth is made and approved by God.
Religion News Service: Wendell Berry, writer and farmer, was extolled by many as a modern-day prophet

 

‘Demonic oppression’ and ‘girly convos’: The podcast wooing young women to conservative Christianity
The Guardian: Since debuting in 2023, Girls Gone Bible has become a brand all its own, with more than 1 million followers on Instagram and ranking 42nd for the religion and spirituality genre on Spotify.

 

Canada hires 48 scholars away from top U.S. universities*
The New York Times: A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

 

Trump appoints pastor with no experience as CDC tobacco adviser*
The New Republic: Why is a pastor advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on tobacco health?

 

Churches go solar, putting creation care into action
United Methodist News Service: One of the perks Dunwoody United Methodist Church leaders get with the addition of solar power is the ability to see energy produced and carbon reduced in real time on the internet.