The choir also performed at a cultural exchange at the Chinese Embassy in Italy on September 5, where they expressed gratitude and friendship. Li Xiaoyong, chargé d’affaires ad interim, described the ...

Observed each October, the feast honors the patron saint of animals, whom San Francisco was named after, with blessings offered for pets of all kinds, from dogs and cats to birds and reptiles.

The only animal to be blessed that wasn't a dog was Aziza, a turkey owned by Deborah Nasmyth, who sat silent and calm in a ...

Francis' canticle was groundbreaking in its embrace of all creation as equal to humanity. Today, it reads as a call to embrace our fragile universe and earth and all its inhabitants.

Authorities in the East Bay said they recovered a sacred object that was stolen from a Catholic Church last week. Concord police said Wednesday that a thief stole a bronze monstrance from Saint ...

It was two days of stellar performances, but in its fourth year, the festival still has a few kinks to work out in terms of overall experience - and a ways to go in terms of making the pier's concrete ...

Summer in the Bay Area doesn’t always promise golden sunshine, but it delivers its own kind of magic. From Aug. 8 to 10, Outside Lands Music Festival (OSL) weekend arrived draped in its signature ...

As lowriders roll through the streets of San Francisco's Mission District, a new theme song written and produced by a native of the neighborhood sets the tone for this year's King of the Streets ...

The Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Francis of Assisi every year on Oct. 4. Known as the patron saint of animals ...

I never met my Uncle Jamie. He died in 1963, well before I was born. He was my father’s eldest brother. Growing up, my aunts ...

The Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Italy’s Parliament, voted to pass the bill on Sept. 23, with 247 votes in favor ...

The Luxembourg indie band Francis Of Delirium released their album Lighthouse in March 2024, and we haven’t heard from them ...