We put people in boxes as a way to degrade them

 

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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.

Chastity “includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom”

 

“You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart”

 

Irish synod marks the “end of an era.”

Leo’s doctors: “No further treatment is necessary”

Pope Leo XIV’s lung cancer was localized and needs no further treatment, his doctors said Wednesday evening. Dr. Luigi Carbone and surgeon Stefano Margaritora said final histopathology and molecular tests on the tissue removed Oct. 13 “confirmed that the tumor was a lung adenocarcinoma and that the disease was localized,” and that “a subsequent oncological assessment has confirmed that no further treatment is necessary.” The news came hours after Leo, eight days out of surgery, spoke with a strong voice and sang the Our Father in Latin at his general audience. In America, Barbara Mahany, who had the same type of cancer, reflects on what it taught her about living. — Vatican News · America (Gerard O’Connell) · National Catholic Reporter (Justin McLellan) · Vatican News [IT] · America (Barbara Mahany)

Ten years on, Amoris Laetitia is “a settled part of the life of the Church”

“We’re in a different place now” was a phrase commonly heard at this month’s “Amoris at 10” meeting of bishops’ conference presidents in Rome, writes Austen Ivereigh in The Tablet. Opening with his own experience defending the Church’s teaching on marriage in the U.K.’s 2012 same-sex marriage debate, Ivereigh argues the pastoral conversion Pope Francis called for has taken root: isolated attempts to reopen the debates over Chapter 8 “met an overwhelming view in the room that the interpretation of that question is settled,” though implementation of discernment processes “remains poor.” On Third Space, WPI co-founder Paul Fahey and Sarah Carter talk with Hendro Munsterman about what happened at the meeting. — The Tablet (Austen Ivereigh) · Third Space (Paul Fahey, Sarah Carter, and Hendro Munsterman)

Leo to American Jewish Committee: Differences “must never give rise to prejudice and hostility”

Receiving an American Jewish Committee delegation on the feast of St. John Paul II, Pope Leo XIV said Catholic-Jewish friendship calls both communities “to defend human dignity, serve the poor, protect religious freedom and promote justice and peace.” “Essential to this commitment is the rejection of all forms of religious and ethnic hatred and discrimination,” he said, recalling his words for the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate that “the Church does not tolerate anti-Semitism and fights against it, on the basis of the Gospel itself.” — Full text (Vatican) · Holy See Press Office [IT] · Vatican News (Deborah Castellano Lubov) · Vatican News [IT]

Pope and Holy See

• Leo to Catholic schools: “Beneath the armor that so many teenagers build around themselves to avoid suffering lies the desire to love and be loved.” Opening the Dicastery for Culture and Education’s international congress on pastoral care in schools and universities, the pope warned of “a performance-driven culture that constantly compares and ranks people, sometimes ruthlessly.” — Full text (Vatican) · Holy See Press Office [IT] · Vatican News (Isabella H. de Carvalho)
• Cardinal Czerny on sustainability, AIDS, and AI. “Sustainability is because we all pull in the same direction,” Czerny said after receiving the inaugural Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal. — America (Colleen Dulle)
• [IT] Parolin prays for peace at the tomb of St. John Paul II. The secretary of state celebrated Mass at the Polish pope’s tomb on his feast day. — Vatican News [IT]
• Holy See at OAS: Respect the dignity and culture of indigenous peoples. At a session on “The Encounter of Two Worlds,” Msgr. Juan Antonio Cruz Serrano acknowledged the “suffering and injustices inflicted upon indigenous peoples” and pointed to Our Lady of Guadalupe as a symbol of encounter. — Vatican News (Davide Dionisi)

United States

• U.S. Catholic voters see the economy as a major issue in the midterms. With high gas prices, stagnant wages, and housing costs squeezing families, polling suggests many voters are frustrated with the economy. — National Catholic Reporter (Brian Fraga)
• Catholic groups raise alarm about DOJ guidance on institutionalizing people with disabilities. Organizations including the USCCB urged Congress to reject guidance they say weakens protections for people with disabilities. — National Catholic Reporter (Kate Scanlon, OSV News)
• AI, migration, and Church renewal top the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting agenda. The USCCB named the three topics as likely issues for its annual November meeting. — National Catholic Reporter (Gina Christian, OSV News)

Around the World

• Irish synod marks the “end of an era.” At a national gathering, Bishop Niall Coll said cultural Catholicism “is over” and the Church needs to form “intentional disciples.” — America (Ruadhán Jones)
• Survey shows a rise in Christian nationalism in Britain. The movement is new in Britain but has worried bishops, who have tried to distance the Church of England from it. — Religion News Service (Catherine Pepinster)
• Canadian bishops pledge prayer after a deadly military base fire. An Oct. 17 blaze at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright killed four service members and injured 39 others. — National Catholic Reporter (Gina Christian, OSV News)

Liturgy and Church Life

• How England’s newest community of sisters is bucking religious decline. The Community of Our Lady of Walsingham aims to tap a new openness to religion among young Britons. — Global Sisters Report (Jonathan Luxmoore)
• Zambian sisters shelter young girls in Chirundu’s red-light district. Mudzi-wa-Moyo, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, cares for 60 girls. — Global Sisters Report (Derrick Silimina)

Video and Podcasts

• American Catholics are souring on Trump. Here’s why. A new explainer video from America Media. — YouTube (America Media)

Commentary

• Opinion: Whatever the high court decides, Catholic schools must choose inclusion. “No Supreme Court decision can substitute for the choice that we have to make,” NCR’s editors write. — National Catholic Reporter (Editorial)
• Opinion: Leo’s encyclical is a north star for the new space race — and alien encounters, too. Scott Hurd on what Pope Leo’s teaching offers as nations and companies push into space. — National Catholic Reporter (Scott Hurd)

Also today

• Polish bishop defends unborn as abortion bills advance — Luke Coppen, The Pillar
• Pope Leo’s alma mater Villanova traveling to Rome for hoops doubleheader vs. Notre Dame — Andrew Dampf, National Catholic Reporter (AP)
• AME Church retirees to receive tens of millions more in funds lost amid scandal — Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
• Landslides, fires, El Niño: Big Sur’s spiritual centers “living with precariousness” — Hayden Royster, Religion News Service
• A Native Weed — Tom Deignan, Commonweal. Book review on fascism in the American tradition.

5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church forever

PHOTOS: Lord of Miracles image enters Peru’s Government Palace for first time in 40 years

The image of the Lord of Miracles entered the Courtyard of Honor at the Government Palace of Peru, where it was received by President Keiko Fujimori and her ministers.

In exchange with religious sister, Vance says government tries to strike ‘balance’ on immigration

The vice president responded to a question by a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary during a CBS interview.

Trump signs bill to reopen SSocial Security, Medicare opt-ins for priests, clergy

The measure, supported by Catholic bishops, allows clergy to reverse their decision to opt out of Social Security and Medicare.

5 ways St. John Paul II changed the Catholic Church forever

St. John Paul II was the second-longest-serving pope in modern history with 27 years of pontificate and the first non-Italian pontiff to be elected since Pope Adrian VI in 1523.

Why Vatican II still matters today

 

At the start of the year, Pope Leo XIV launched a series of general audience talks on the Second Vatican Council. He plans to talk about each of the 16 documents the Council issued.

He is doing that for a reason. It has been 60 years since the Council, and that generation is passing. Here in America, about 70% of all Catholics were born after Vatican II. 

For most Catholics, Vatican II is all they have ever known. But it is probably also true that most Catholics today do not know very much about Vatican II. 

Archbishop Gomez on Vatican II: No Ambiguity, No Retreat

 

The bishop is the chief liturgist of his local Church. What he permits, restricts, and celebrates teaches his people what the Church believes about her worship. That is why Archbishop José Gomez’s recent column in Angelus, “Why Vatican II still matters today,” deserves a wide reading.

At a moment when some American bishops seem to be quietly narrowing the reach of the liturgical reform, whether by opening wide the doors to the pre-reformed rite or by pulling back the cup from the faithful, the Archbishop of Los Angeles speaks with refreshing clarity. He reminds us that every pope since the Council has received it as a work of the Holy Spirit, and that its liturgical reforms are an authentic, organic development of the Church’s living tradition. Catholics, he writes, cannot treat the Council as optional or choose how they want to worship.

He also recalls why the reform was needed. Quoting Pope Benedict XVI, he describes the “two parallel liturgies” of the old rite: the priest at the altar, the faithful in their own prayer books. Participatio actuosa was the Council’s answer, and it remains ours.

What moves me most is his personal witness. He speaks of loving the Mass we have been given, of the collects and prefaces staying with him through the day, and of the “noble simplicity” of the reformed rite prayed with reverence. Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.

In Los Angeles, that conviction is not merely written; it is practiced: the reformed rite in its fullness, Communion under both kinds, the laity exercising their baptismal ministries. No compromise.

Read it here: https://angelusnews.com/voices/why-vatican-ii-matters/

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

Covenant Presbyterian Church

What is the Evangelical Presbyterian Church?

Covenant Church at 30th & Howard  is a Christian church in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation and allied with the EPC [The Evangelical Presbyterian Church] We believe the Scriptures to be the infallible Word of God and our final authority in faith and practice, and we find the historic creeds of the early church (the Apostles’ Creed and Nicene Creed) to be vital expressions of the most important tenets of the global church universal. When the EPC started in 1981, we determined that we would not disagree on the basic essentials of the Christian faith, but on anything that was not essential—such as the issue of ordaining women as officers or practicing charismatic gifts—we would give each other liberty. Above all, we committed ourselves to loving each other and not engaging in quarrels and strife. The result is that when we get together in our regional and national meetings, we spend most of our time in worship and fellowship and almost none in arguing with each other.

Ahead of papal trip, is Uruguay on the cusp of “revival”?

At his first audience since surgery, Leo says supporting the family is “more urgent than ever”

“The first thing I would like to say is thank you! Thank you for the support of your prayers,” Pope Leo XIV told pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, his first general audience since his lung cancer surgery. Continuing his catechesis on Vatican II, he turned to Gaudium et Spes on marriage and the family, which it calls “the foundation of society,” and said the call for political and cultural leaders to support families “is more urgent than ever before.” He recalled the two synodal assemblies convened by Pope Francis, which the heads of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the presidents of bishops’ conferences took up again in recent days. — Full text (Vatican) · Holy See Press Office [IT] · Vatican News (Isabella H. de Carvalho) · Vatican News [IT]

Fr. Ripperger steps back, and letters show Denver restricted him in 2025

The Archdiocese of Denver says Archbishop James Golka asked Fr. Chad Ripperger to take “a one-year fast from public speaking and interviews,” and the celebrity exorcist “readily agreed.” Correspondence obtained by Where Peter Is shows that in 2025, under Archbishop Samuel Aquila, the archdiocese investigated Ripperger’s public statements on mental health, placed interim restrictions on his ministry, and issued a decree limiting what he may say and write about psychology and psychiatry. The archdiocese hasn’t said whether the two are connected. — Where Peter Is (Mike Lewis) · Archdiocese of Denver · National Catholic Register (Gigi Duncan) · America (Gina Christian, OSV News)

There are now more Catholics in Africa than in Europe

Africa gained 7.58 million Catholics in 2024, reaching 288.3 million and passing Europe’s 287.2 million, according to Agenzia Fides’ annual figures drawn from the Church’s latest Statistical Yearbook. The Americas still have the most Catholics, at 678.9 million. Worldwide, the Church counted 1.422 billion members, and for the first time in five years the number of priests rose, by 425, driven by Africa and Asia, while Europe lost 2,483. — Crux

Pope and Holy See

• Leo: Saints show us “history shaped by faith.” Meeting participants in the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints’ conference on holiness in history, the pope said the history of the world would be far poorer, and less human, without the saints. — Vatican News · Holy See Press Office [IT] · Vatican News [IT]
• Holy See at the UN: Nuclear weapons remain “one of the gravest threats to humanity.” Archbishop Christophe El Kassis said worsening global security “cannot justify deeper reliance on nuclear weapons” and makes their elimination “all the more urgent.” — Vatican News · Vatican News [IT]
• Before his surgery, Mexico’s bishops brought Leo the stories of the country’s missing. Bishop Ramón Castro Castro presented the pope with “One Name, a Thousand Voices,” a 200-page book documenting disappearances amid Mexico’s security crisis. — National Catholic Reporter (David Agren, OSV News)
• [IT] Parolin: Law must govern AI and eliminate inequalities. The secretary of state opened five days of events marking the 150th anniversary of the Gregorian University’s canon law faculty. — Vatican News [IT]

United States

• Vatican upholds excommunication of a Louisiana deacon who left the Church after his son was abused by a priest. The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith acknowledged the family’s ordeal but ruled that Scott Peyton’s formal move to an Anglican congregation was schismatic. “While I am disappointed, I am not surprised,” Peyton said. — National Catholic Reporter (Camillo Barone)
• A Catholic sister challenges JD Vance over ICE tactics. At a televised Detroit town hall, IHM Sr. Nancy Sylvester asked the vice president how ICE’s conduct “can constantly be justified in terms of the kind of values we want to live by.” — Global Sisters Report (Dan Stockman)
• Trump administration extends TPS for Ukrainians and Sudanese, but uncertainty remains. The Oct. 18 extension lets people from both countries keep living legally in the U.S. for now; DHS gave no rationale. — National Catholic Reporter (Kate Scanlon, OSV News)
• Two years after the Synod on Synodality, where does the U.S. Church stand? The worldwide dialogue Pope Francis began continues under Pope Leo XIV. — America (Kimberley Heatherington, OSV News)
• The National Eucharistic Congress will return to Indianapolis in 2029. The city hosted the last congress in 2024. — The Pillar (Michelle La Rosa)

Around the World

• Holy Land Church leaders condemn a settler attack on Taybeh and European diplomats. The patriarchs and heads of Jerusalem’s churches called the “wild attack” on one of the last Christian villages in the West Bank “not an isolated incident” amid violence peaking during the olive harvest. — National Catholic Reporter (Junno Arocho Esteves, OSV News) · Vatican News [IT]
• Two Pakistani sisters are the first women religious to receive a national excellence award. Sr. Mariam Gill and Sr. Genevieve Ram Lal were honored for their work in healthcare, disability support, and women’s empowerment. — Global Sisters Report (Kamran Chaudhry)

Liturgy and Church Life

• Loneliness, boring parish events, and a “Tinder priest”: why aren’t young Catholics getting married? The falling number of young people marrying in the Church was one of the biggest talking points at this month’s Vatican meeting on Amoris Laetitia. — Crux (Fionn Shiner)

Video and Podcasts

• Pedro Gabriel: Amoris Laetitia: 10 years of the wrong debate? Marking the 10th anniversary and the meeting Pope Leo XIV convened with bishops’ conference presidents, WPI’s Pedro Gabriel asks whether, after a decade of controversy over the exhortation, we have been focusing on the wrong debate all along. — YouTube (Pedro Gabriel)

Commentary

• Opinion: Two powerful talks show why the world needs Catholic higher education. Michael Sean Winters looks at Cardinal Michael Czerny’s talk at Frankfurt’s Sankt Georgen and Eduardo Peñalver’s inaugural address as Georgetown’s president. — National Catholic Reporter (Michael Sean Winters)
• Opinion: Congressman Jim McGovern: I’m a progressive Democrat because I’m Catholic. “I’m a progressive Democrat because of my faith — not in spite of it. And I think it’s time more of us said so,” the Massachusetts congressman writes. — National Catholic Reporter (Jim McGovern)

Also today

• A “spiral of violence”: France’s bishops condemn the weekend’s riots — Fionn Shiner, Crux · Also: The Pillar
• Ahead of papal trip, is Uruguay on the cusp of “revival”? — Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar
• Jesuits’ expulsion of laicized priest is empty gesture, say abuse survivors — Eduardo Campos Lima, The Pillar
• [IT] “Jesus, the Christ”: a new book gathers catecheses by Leo and Francis — Vatican News
• Opinion: Shut Them Down — Griffin Oleynick, Commonweal. On Cornell and fraternities.
• Document of an Atrocity — Dominic Preziosi, Commonweal. Review of the documentary “NAZA.”
• An “empathy gap” divides Americans ahead of the midterms, says PRRI report — Bob Smietana, Religion News Service
• What to know about Kenya’s starvation cult after its leader is convicted on 191 murder charges — Gerald Imray, Religion News Service (AP)

U.S.: Number of Teens Identifying as LGBT+ Declines

605 cases of healing: Results of a study on healing prayer are published

ZENIT Staff

The stories range from serious illnesses to persistent physical pain. According to her findings, 40 percent of those reporting healing had suffered from cancer, terminal illness or other severe conditions. The remaining 60 percent described relief from problems such as disabling arthritis, sciatica, tennis elbow and shin pain

Lefebvrians announce that a legal challenge against the Vatican’s decree of excommunication is underway

ZENIT Staff

The SSPX announced on July 13 that it had lodged a preliminary appeal with the doctrinal dicastery on July 11, invoking canons 1734 and following of the Code of Canon Law

U.S.: Four states will vote on abortion referendums in the “midterm” elections

Tim Daniels

An October survey by the Pew Research Center found that 46% of registered voters considered abortion “very important” when deciding how to vote, down from 56% during the 2022 midterm elections. The economy, at 84%, and the future of American democracy, at 73%, ranked substantially higher

The Legion of Christ Updates Its Child Protection Policy Following the General Chapter

ZENIT Staff

Following the 2026 General Chapter, the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ presented an update to «Protect and Heal» (Proteger y Sanar), the document that, since 2020, has defined its policy regarding the protection of minors and vulnerable persons, the support provided to victims of abuse, and the guarantee of fair processes for all. The document has also been updated to reflect the most recent developments in Canon Law.

Following a call with Putin, Leon XIV is now speaking by phone with the president of Ukraine

ZENIT Staff

His Holiness expressed the hope that cooperation between both parties will allow for the delivery of food and medical aid, and for the voluntary and safe evacuation of the civilian population

More than 500 Million Christians Face Restricted Access to the Bible

ZENIT Staff

The research team discovered that more than 125 million believers live in places where they cannot access the Scriptures in any format.

The olive trees of Taybeh, under attack by Jewish settlers: A Christian Community Fights to Preserve Its Land, Livelihood and Identity

ZENIT Staff

Father Fawadleh has reported stolen olives and damaged trees, warning that some households will produce less olive oil than they need for their own consumption. For families already struggling financially, the loss of a harvest threatens not only their earnings but also their ability to maintain their homes and continue living on their land.

U.S.: Number of Teens Identifying as LGBT+ Declines

ZENIT Staff

The findings come from the 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Psychologist Jean Twenge, a professor at San Diego State University who compared the new figures with those from 2023, described the changes as striking in a late-September analysis.

The Synod’s ideas on synodality run up against the wall of canon law: here’s how experts explain it

Jorge Enrique Mújica

The commission’s recommendations include broadening the roles that qualified laypeople can exercise in ecclesiastical offices and ministries, increasing lay participation in particular Church councils, and changing the rules governing diocesan tribunals. It also proposes allowing diocesan bishops to appoint lay judges without the approval currently required from the episcopal conference, according to the report’s critics.

A Potential New Saint of the Catholic Church Who Listened to Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Maria’s early writings describe her intention to use her gifts to serve God. «One of the messages Maria leaves behind — especially for young people trying to figure out, ‘What should I do with my life?’ — is a beautiful one: Take the gifts you have been given and use them to serve,» remarked her mother, Susan.

Only a 1% Chance of Being Born Alive . . . Yet He Lived. The Hopeful Case of a Baby Born Without Kidneys, Urethra, or Bladder

Alma Recinas

Stepping out of the consultation room to take a breath of air, Diana and Iñigo found their eyes filled with tears. «We hugged each other and cried for a while,» he recalls. Upon going back inside, they pressed the question: «Is there truly nothing that can be done? Isn’t there some kind of intrauterine surgery available?»

Beyond disenchantment: the religious face of contemporary S Korea

ZENIT Staff

While 51 per cent of South Koreans claim no religious affiliation, the sacred is still present in many aspects of life. While Buddhism faces a crisis in a society, the social role of Confucianism persists amid the rise of new religious movements (along with the tensions they bring). Among the various religions, Christianity, all denominations included, now make up 31 per cent of the population.