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Christ United Presbyterian Church of San Diego

What Is The Presbyterian Church (USA)

Christ United Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rev. Dr. Kerry Allison is the pastor of this parish church in South Park. We were established in 1981 when an invitation was extended to two churches—Brooklyn Heights Presbyterian, established in 1921 and the Golden Hill Presbyterian, established in 1956—to merge and each church accepted. The late Reverend Doctor George Walker Smith founded Golden Hill Presbyterian Church in 1956 with support from the Presbyterian Women organization. The church, located at 22nd and Market in South Park, became a human rights leader in San Diego as the congregation grew. Reverend Smith was the first black school board member in San Diego. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Christ United continues its ministry in power and presence to the present day. All are welcome to join us in worship and togetherness. 

 

Following Trump’s attacks on the Pope:

Abortion as an Ideological Weapon: The Vatican’s Denouncement

Rafael Llanes

In the face of the promotion of abortion and the lack of respect for life, the document calls for focusing attention on other factors it considers truly harmful, such as extreme consumerism, pollution, the throwaway culture, and the desire to exert absolute power over the human body through its manipulation, facilitated by technological advances.

French bishops announce the Pope’s visit for September 2026: here’s what we know

Covadonga Asturias

According to Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, Archbishop of Marseille and president of the French Bishops’ Conference, he has already held several working meetings with the Pope, including one during the previous week in which the framework of the trip was discussed

Following Trump’s attacks on the Pope: what the polls now reveal about support for one or the other

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Americans Side With Leo XIV on Peace as Trump’s Attacks on the Pope Draw Broad Rejection, New Poll Finds

Will the Vatican sanction German bishops for blessing same-sex couples? The Pope’s Secretary of State responds

Joachin Meisner Hertz

Speaking on May 7 on the sidelines of a book presentation in Rome, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said it was “premature” to discuss sanctions against German bishops. At the same time, he carefully avoided excluding the possibility of future intervention

A “Christian Phone Network” Enters the Culture Wars: Can Faith-Based Filtering Redefine the Internet Experience?

Tim Daniels

What is new is the attempt to build an entire mobile ecosystem around explicitly religious moral criteria.

Seventy Years of Speaking Hebrew and Living Catholic Unity: This is what the vicariate for Jewish converts to Catholicism in the Holy Land is like

ZENIT Staff

On May 2, the vicariate celebrated the 70th anniversary of its foundation with a solemn liturgy at the Notre Dame Center in Jerusalem, presided over by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

Bishop Lowe elected to second term as NZCBC president

ZENIT Staff

Bishop Lowe said the New Zealand bishops work very collaboratively, which is a source of comfort for him as president.

The decline of marriage in a specific country (New Zealand): a symptom of a global trend and the Vatican’s response

ZENIT Staff

At the same time, divorces rose by 5 percent in 2025, reaching 7,887 cases. For the first time, the country’s divorce rate surpassed its marriage rate, although Stats NZ noted that the two indicators are calculated using different population bases.

Ten Popes and Ninety Years as a Religious Sister: This Is the World’s Longest-Living Nun

Rafael Manuel Tovar

Sister Francis Piscatella told Fox News: «I’ve stopped counting my years. I never thought I’d reach this age.»

This is what the religious landscape will look like in 2075: the Muslim population is growing, while Catholics remain the largest Christian group

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Christianity Remains the World’s Largest Faith, but Islam’s Rapid Growth Is Redrawing the Religious Map

Study Reveals Increase in Church Attendance (and Donations): The Surprising (and Encouraging) Findings You Should Know

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Digital giving expanded dramatically during and after the pandemic. In 2020, only 58 percent of congregations offered online giving options. By 2025, that number had climbed to 76 percent. Researchers estimate that roughly 40 percent of church income now arrives through online donations.

Questions about liturgy: Cloths on Altars

Fr. Edward McNamara

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university.

How a Catholic woman saved tens of thousands of orphans

After stillbirth loss, mother of 7 returns to school to help others heal After navigating loss and grief, Kelly Helsel is officially now a licensed counselor thanks to the guidance given to her by the Catholic Church and her desire to use her experience to help others. Pope Leo XIV prays for Sahel victims At the Regina Caeli, the pope also thanked the Canary Islands for welcoming a cruise ship with passengers sick with hantavirus. ‘Love is stronger’: How a Catholic woman saved tens of thousands of orphans Out of the horrors of the Burundian Civil War and the Rwandan genocide emerged a woman willing to risk her life for peace.

How Christ transformed 2 young converts from Islam The converts describe their journey to faith in Jesus Christ, their experience of receiving the sacraments at the Easter Vigil, and the importance of their catechists and Christian community.

America’s pastor pipeline is collapsing

America’s pastor pipeline is collapsing
Axios: Fewer Americans want to become pastors, accelerating a leadership vacuum inside one of the country’s oldest civic institutions.

 

‘There’s not much of a choice,’ clergy abuse accuser says of NY Archdiocese’s settlement offer
National Catholic Reporter: The proposal requires unanimous consent from plaintiffs by June 27, followed by a 30-day signing period, in order to take effect.

 

At 90, my grandma is leading worship at her retirement home*
Christianity Today: Her decades of service to her community inspire me to be like her, Kelsey Kramer McGinnis writes.

 

James Dobson’s appearance in the Epstein Files
Religion Dispatches: While Dobson wasn’t personally connected to Epstein, his teachings are, according to some of those most familiar, a natural fit for bad actors seeking to enable or excuse the sexual abuse of children.

 

Documentary tells story of Washington National Cathedral's West Rose window*
The Christian Century: A documentary on the Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose stained-glass window tells the story of the window’s creation and how it made the neo-Gothic building a space that embraces both tradition and modernity.

Can AI Produce Spiritual Writing?

 

Written by Paul Chu and V. J. Tarantino

{This article, addressing Large Language Models and Artificial Intelligence, will be presented in two parts; the first part, below, proposes a Christian understanding of word and language by which to evaluate the moral and philosophical implications of the use of AI writing, especially as regards spiritual matters.]

If I speak in human and angelic tongues,
but do not have love,
I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

What then are we, when our voice of perennial truth is not the fount of Wisdom nor the outpourings of the Holy Spirit, but the ever-dripping tepid tap of ChatGPT, Claude or others of their LLM ilk?

We write to this question with urgency, as we encounter AI-generated spiritual content on an ever more frequent basis. That sacred topics should set the bar higher for integrity seems so intuitive, that the need to offer an apologia for authenticity grieves us. But here we stand, at what can rightly be called “an epochal change,” to use the words of Pope Francis.

The Church harbors no luddite antagonism towards technological development. Much to the contrary, such innovation reflects the creative potential of the human person, itself grounded in our imaging of the divine Creator. Abstract and theoretical worlds, such as literary fiction and mathematics, exist alongside the natural world and serve in their own ways to further the human project. Diagnostic and analytical applications of AI are poised to open up new vistas in various fields; this is exciting.

U.S. lawmakers urge Trump to press China’s president on Jimmy Lai case

Pope Leo to sick and caregivers: ‘In the various situations of life, no one should be left alone’ The Pope told an assembly of ALS patients that with commitment, faith, and courage, the sick "bear witness that the goodness and value of life are greater than illness." Pope Leo meets with Haiti’s prime minister Haiti continues to experience a complex situation of violence and insecurity, particularly in the country’s capital of Port-au-Prince. Holy See calls on UN to never subordinate migrants’ lives to other interests Monsignor Robert D. Murphy emphasized protecting migrants' right to life, making greater efforts to reunite families, and eliminating criminal exploitation. Catholics weigh in as Supreme Court faces deadline on telemedicine abortion ruling U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered a review of the abortion drug mifipristone in May 2025, which is ongoing.

U.S. lawmakers urge Trump to press China’s president on Jimmy Lai case Chinese officials sentenced Lai, founder and publisher of the pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily, to 20 years in prison on Feb. 9.

A year on from the dismantling of USAID

 

On April 27th, I published Tearing the Seamless Garment: USAID as a Pro-Life Reckoning for American Catholics on Liturgy and Truth. That essay had taken shape over several weeks of reading and prayer, beginning with Nicholas Enrich’s harrowing book Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID, which had appeared in mid-April. Enrich, the senior USAID official whose internal memos warned in writing of the deaths the dismantling would cause, laid out the moral and administrative facts with a clarity I had not expected. My essay attempted to do what his account compelled: to bring the Catholic moral tradition — particularly Cardinal Bernardin’s consistent ethic of life — to bear on what had been done to USAID, and to ask honestly what American Catholics, who had voted decisively for the administration that did it, now owe to those whose deaths they had unintentionally helped to make possible.

The essay was, by necessity, prospective in its empirical core. The peer-reviewed projections in The Lancet told us what would happen if the dismantling was carried through. The Enrich memos told us what those inside the agency had warned would happen. The hard counting of bodies — children who would not be vaccinated, mothers who would die in childbirth, tuberculosis patients whose treatment regimens would be interrupted — had only just begun.

It is no longer prospective.

Rock Church Swahili 05.10.2026

  

Welcome to the live stream of Rock Church Swahili, a joyful, Spirit‑filled community where families and nations gather to lift up the name of Jesus. Today, we come with expectation—ready to bow before the King of Kings and encounter His presence in a fresh and powerful way. Hoover High School, San Diego, CA  What You’ll Experience in This Service Spirit‑filled worship led by our Rock Church Swahili team Encouraging preaching centered on faith, strength, and God’s calling Testimonies that inspire hope and courage A joyful atmosphere of unity and praise ❤️ About Rock Church Swahili We are a vibrant, multicultural community worshiping Jesus in Swahili and English. Whether you’re joining from San Diego or around the world, you are welcome here. 📍 Join Us In Person Hoover High School 4474 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego, CA

San Diego Japanese Christian Church 05.10.2026

 

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San Diego Japanese Christian Church

OMS Holiness Church of North America

San Diego Japanese Christian Church (SDJCC) is here to share the good news that a dynamic relationship with Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is the key to abundant living in today’s world. Our church was founded as an outreach to Japanese speaking farmers in San Diego County over 80 years ago. SDJCC now has English and Japanese speaking ministries. It’s easy to miss, tucked away at the elbow of 19th and E streets just above Interstate 5: the Japanese American Christian Church in Golden Hill. You’d most likely drive past this humble place of worship on the way up Broadway without noticing it, but if you happened to be on a stroll down E Street looking at the nice old houses, you’d stumble upon it after the bigger homes give way to a series of California bungalows. It’s there before E turns right into 19th. Across the street from the church, a chain-link fence lines the sidewalk above the 5 where the homeless set up camp on a regular basis before they are swept out and relocated only to return again when the police shift their attention elsewhere. Historically, the church itself is a product of a relocation of a different sort. As my City College colleague, historian Susan Hasegawa informed me, it was originally founded as the Japanese Holiness Church by Christian Nikkei (immigrants and their descendents) in 1930 and located on Newton Avenue. Sponsored by the Oriental Mission Society, the church focused its efforts on outreach to Issei (first generation immigrant) farmers.

Christ United Presbyterian San Diego 05.10.2026

 

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

Christ United Presbyterian Church of San Diego

What Is The Presbyterian Church (USA)

Christ United Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Rev. Dr. Kerry Allison is the pastor of this parish church in South Park. We were established in 1981 when an invitation was extended to two churches—Brooklyn Heights Presbyterian, established in 1921 and the Golden Hill Presbyterian, established in 1956—to merge and each church accepted. The late Reverend Doctor George Walker Smith founded Golden Hill Presbyterian Church in 1956 with support from the Presbyterian Women organization. The church, located at 22nd and Market in South Park, became a human rights leader in San Diego as the congregation grew. Reverend Smith was the first black school board member in San Diego. May he rest in peace and rise in glory. Christ United continues its ministry in power and presence to the present day. All are welcome to join us in worship and togetherness.