Christ's gift of reconciliation through both our words and actions

 

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.

Generosity is a fruit of the Holy Spirit

 

Why can’t the Church just be better?

 

A Christian educator’s final warnings about hiring faculty

Activist Catholic priest Michael Pfleger again accused of sexual abuse
Religion News Service: The Rev. Michael Pfleger “strongly denied” the allegation, which comes after archdiocesan reviews with outside investigators cleared him of four previous accusations of decades-old abuse.

A Christian educator’s final warnings about hiring faculty
Religion Unplugged: Robert B. Sloan Jr.’s address — 11 theses for Christian higher education — was timely after years of headlines about faith-based schools closing their doors as experts warned about a looming “enrollment cliff” due to falling birth rates.

 

Christian church vows to fight tribal order to leave Wind River Reservation
WyoFile: Tribal leaders decry pastor’s call to turn away from traditional ways. 

 

MAGA Pastor Greg Locke claims federal officials raided his home but gives few details
Religion News Service: In a subdued message to churchgoers, Rev. Locke claimed federal agents broke into his home and searched it for hours after receiving reports of alleged financial misconduct.

 

How Americans are engaged with news, politics, religion and civic life
Pew Research Center: Mapping how Americans take part in society — or don’t.

Priests’ soccer tournament promotes fraternity and vocations

Priests’ soccer tournament promotes fraternity and vocations

What started out as a friendly match among local priests has grown into a tournament with priests from seven dioceses in Peru, an event that strengthens fraternity and is a seedbed for vocations.

Bishop Paprocki: Eucharistic revival calls Catholics to worthy reception of Communion

Four years after the National Eucharistic Revival began, Bishop Thomas Paprocki says Catholics must unite belief in Christ’s real presence with moral life and worthy Communion.

Arkansas tops 2026 religious liberty index

According to First Liberty Institute, Arkansas ranks first among all 50 states for protecting religious liberty, while New York ranks last.

Haiti plunged into deepening violence as drone fatalities, gang activity increase

Haiti climbed to No. 5 on the International Rescue Committee’s 2026 emergency watch list, which ranks the top 20 countries facing the world’s most severe humanitarian crises.

The Verdict of History

 In 1988, the historian Richard Rhodes — who had given us the definitive account of the making of the atomic bomb — published a quiet and terrible essay in the Journal of the American Medical Association. He called it Man-made Death: A Neglected Mortality, and his argument was that our demographers and public-health officials systematically fail to count a certain kind of dying: the deaths caused not by microbe or misfortune but by policy — by war, by neglect, by privation deliberately imposed. Artificially induced famine. The willful dismantling of the infrastructure that keeps the poor alive. Rhodes gave the thing a name. He called it public man-made death.

I had not known that phrase until earlier this week, when The New Yorker published a conversation with Dr. Atul Gawande — surgeon, longtime contributor to the magazine, and, until DOGE reduced it to a shell, one of the most senior officials at USAID. Gawande reaches for Rhodes’s category because he needs it. The ordinary vocabulary of the budget debate — cuts, reforms, efficiencies — cannot hold what he has to report. The interview is titled, without mercy, The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on USAID, and Gawande does two things in it that I would ask every American Catholic as well as all people of faith to carry to prayer.

First, he counts. Second, he refuses the flattering word. The dismantling, he says, was not merely cruel; it was also stupid— a gratuitous demolition of American standing from Africa to Latin America, undertaken by men who never troubled to learn what they were destroying before they destroyed it. The moral tradition of the Church has an exact response to each of these, and I mean to speak both before I am done.

Traddyland: A Memoir the Church Needs Now

 

Written by Mike Lewis

A review of Louis Massett’s Traddyland: Memoir of a Radical Traditional Catholic.

Compared with other high-demand and fundamentalist religious movements, radical Catholic traditionalism has produced remarkably few memoirs by those who have experienced it from within. The most notable include Patricia Walsh Chadwick’s 2019 Little Sister, recounting her childhood in the 1950s and 1960s among Leonard Feeney’s Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; Veronica Chater’s 2009 Waiting for the Apocalypse, about her chaotic upbringing in an apocalyptic traditionalist family in the aftermath of Vatican II; and Colleen Dulle’s 2025 Struck Down, Not Destroyed, which describes, among other crises of faith, her attraction to the traditional Latin Mass movement during her university years and the painful circumstances that eventually drove her away from it. Within this small body of literature, there is very little at book length about growing up specifically within the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX).[1]

Traddyland: Memoir of a Radical Traditional Catholic by Louis Massett fills that conspicuous gap. This book may represent the beginning of something the Catholic world has not yet produced: a memoir culture among those raised inside radical traditionalism. As the generation that grew up in traditionalism following Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 decree liberalizing the celebration of the Latin Mass comes of age and the ex-traditionalist movement continues to take shape, perhaps we will see more personal accounts of growing up in fundamentalist Catholic groups.

covenantchurchsd 07.12.2026

 

 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.

An agnostic who out-Christianed the Christians

Faith-based AI company Gloo faces moment of truth after $438M in losses
Religion News Service: Serial entrepreneur Scott Beck believes he has a mission to help churches and Christian ministries spread God’s work and help others. After years of financial losses, he believes his investment in building a faith-based tech company will soon pay off.

 

Amid ICE killings, more than 100 clergy from across the US stage protest at Delaney Hall
Religion News Service: “I am sick and tired of waking up every morning to see another loved one is dead,” said Charlene Walker, head of Faith in New Jersey.

 

Too weak to advocate for herself, a young woman is saved by a nun
NPR: After Solitaire Miles had a stroke at 18, a strong-willed nun saved her life.

 

20 years after his wife fell to her death in Utah, a youth pastor’s story unravels
CNN: When Bernadette Vander Meer told David Vander Meer she wanted a divorce, the youth pastor told her to consider the optics.

 

An agnostic who out-Christianed the Christians*
The Christian Century: The 19th-century orator Robert Ingersoll denied God. But his answer to the question of human purpose strikes me as a pretty good one.

2 historic churches in Mexico City reopen

U.S. bishops urge Labor Department to reject expanding IVF insurance coverage

U.S. Catholic bishops and other Catholic organizations warned that IVF destroys human embryonic life and encouraged the department to support life-affirming fertility treatments instead.

BBC correspondent David Willey, longtime Vatican and papal chronicler, dies at 93

EWTN News spoke to the journalist in February about his more than 50 years covering the Vatican.

Catholic Relief Services to receive $235 million in food aid for Sudan, Ethiopia

“More than 110,000 metric tons of U.S.-grown agricultural commodities” will be delivered under an agreement in principle between Catholic Relief Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

2 historic churches in Mexico City reopen almost 9 years after earthquake damage

Work was slow and meticulous due to the complexity of the damage, but the two churches in the historic city center of Mexico City are now open to the faithful.