The Pope has commended the "lives of sacrifice, missionary zeal, and service to the Church" of 14 newly canonized saints.

Besides the usually cited All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day on Nov. 1 and 2, more covert European elements have influenced Day of the Dead practices. One of these is the belief in the soul and an ...

Pope Francis called on the faithful to yearn to serve, not thirst for power, as he proclaimed 14 new saints, including Canada-born St. Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the L ...

Even for people of other religions and those with no religion at all, the presence of priests hearing confessions "offers a ...

The availability of confession, even in churches heavily frequented by tourists, presents the Catholic Church as a welcoming ...

After Catholic Church settles with 1,353 sexual-abuse survivors, Ray Higgins cautions, “We might not have heard the last yet.

People in San Francisco are wary of fake news and misinformation this election season, according to survey data published ...

Most of the Pan Amazonian population consists of immigrants or their descendants. They arrived over centuries, motivated by ...

San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was the first agency in the US to adopt the floppy-based automatic train control system in 1998. It was supposed ...

As a result, an increasing number of San Franciscans are enrolling in the California FAIR plan, which provides the most basic ...

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the ...

In this week's Fogcutter column, SFGATE staffers visited a new de Young Museum exhibit, a Golden Gate Park concert, Valencia ...