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Sep 23, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Seeking for Facilitating Couples

Diocese of Oakland seeks to strengthen marriage preparation team If you have been married for at least 2 years and you have a passion to share the good news of…

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Sep 19, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Christ is the reason we’re all here

In July, I had one of the most moving spiritual experiences of my life. Together with 200 pilgrims from Oakland, and more than 50,000 Catholics from around the United States, I…

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Sep 18, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Oaklander receives Diocesan Medal of Merit for life focused on loving ‘the other’

Meg Bowerman has spent decades offering loving presence to those on the margins, and empowering Oakland Catholics to do the same The hometown of proud Oaklander Meg Bowerman is Detroit,…

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Sep 17, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Missionary sisters celebrate 25 years bringing Christ to Brentwood

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish will hold a special Mass honoring their service in the East Bay  For 25 years, the Missionary Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament and Mary Immaculate…

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Sep 10, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Pope Leo canonizes two young Italian saints

More than 80,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square in Rome to celebrate the canonization of St. Carlo Acutis and St. Pier Giorgio Frassati on Sunday, Sept. 7.  Among those in…

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Aug 26, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Teaching ‘companionment’

“That is great to be able to teach the faith, but also on a personal level, you have to show it.” Carmen Navarro is the director of religious education at St. Paul…

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Aug 19, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Scholarships Awarded by the African American Pastoral Center and the Black and Indian Missions Fund

Brian Swanson, Principal of St. David of Wales School, and Dr. Chiquita T. Tuttle, Director of the African American Pastoral Center, presented two students at St. David of Wales with…

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Aug 5, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

United in Prayer with Our Immigrant Community

Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ, delivered the following remarks at prayer services on Aug. 5 and 6, 2025. His comments have been edited for clarity.  We Catholics believe the Church…

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Jul 29, 2025 Feb 12 @ 4:34 pm

Revisiting the Order of Malta Clinic

The Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California welcomed special guests on July 10. Three of the five founding board members, Herman Carmassi, Tom Greerty and Jack Hockel, DDS, returned to the clinic, some of them seeing it for the first time since its expansion.  

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