OAKLAND — Amidst a sea of white crosses, a memorial service was held at St. Columba Catholic Church on Sunday to commemorate the 126 lives lost to homicides in the city this year.

In an annual ceremony, priests at St. Columba Catholic Church were joined by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and others in reading aloud the names of 97 homicide victims who were killed in the city in ...

Some of the “parishioners” had four legs and their howls, yelps and chirps could be heard from blocks away when St. Columba Church held its annual blessing of the animals to honor St. Francis ...

Founded in 1845 by Irish laborers from the West Side docks, who built the church’s building on West 25th Street that same year, St. Columba, named for the protector of poets, managed to survive ...