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Missionary Oblate Father John Mark Ettensohn, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, passed away unexpectedly on Aug. 13, 2025. Public visitation is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 25, followed by a vigil service at 7 p.m. Mass of the Resurrection will be on Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 10:30 a.m. All services will be at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Oakland, CA.

“Our children have this encounter with Christ on a daily basis in school,” says Dr. Andrew Currier, superintendent of schools for the Oakland Diocese, “and that's why we're here.” That sentence may capstone what the 45 schools within the diocese accomplish, but it barely skims the surface of what students, teachers, principals and everyone who touches school life co-create within the lives of the nearly 15,000 young people they encounter each day during the academic year.

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 scholarships for the 2025-2026 School Year.

Bishop Michael C. Barber, SJ: We Catholics believe the Church is the Body of Christ. As St. Paul teaches us, “ If [one] part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy. Now you are Christ’s body, and individually parts of it (1 Cor. 12:26)."

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.

St. Bonaventure has always been a place of faith and family for the Chisolm family, including newly ordained Paulist Father Ben Chisolm. “This is the community that helped form me. I grew up here, I had my first contact with the faith here,” he said.

A list of suggestions of how you and your parish can engage in pastoral and political action around immigration reform. You will find three tiers, reflecting different levels and types of engagement.

Approximately a half million young people have benefitted from Bill Ford’s vision of youth ministry through sports. After directing the Oakland Diocese’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) sports program for almost half a century, Ford retired June 30, after overseeing the final class of Bill Ford Scholars.

Three new transitional deacons ordained for the Oakland Diocese

Construction and property management expert brings professional and personal stewardship to service of the church

'I felt like it was something I'm supposed to do' after 50 years in baseball