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When the Second Vatican Council in Rome decided in the 1960s that nuns were no longer required to wear habits, Sister Euphemia O’Connor opted to ignore the papal decree. For 85 years she put on the black tunic and wimple whether she was teaching school at Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco or riding the Greyhound bus cross-country to a seminar, usually making friends along the way. Among the 30 residents of the Motherhouse on Turk Street, she was the last to wear the habit as she quietly moved from her spartan room on the second floor to the infirmary downstairs. It was there that Sister Euphemia died on Jan. 17. She was 103. “She committed her whole life to being an educator and to learning from life’s experiences,” said Sister Rosina Conrotto, President of the Sisters of the Presentation. “She wore the habit for its witness value — so that people knew she was available for comfort and advice, no matter where she was.” Sisters of the Presentation is an order that … [Read more...] about Sister Euphemia O’Connor, Bay Area nun for 85 years, dies at 103

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 2 The bid to bring a WNBA franchise to Oakland took a critical step forward Thursday, as the city formally announced it reached a deal with the group leading the expansion effort for exclusive negotiating rights on its half of the Coliseum site. Alana Beard, front woman of the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, is close to completing and submitting the proposal to the WNBA. The league previously had stated an intent to move forward with expansion in December, but delayed that into this year. “Alana is leading that project,” said Ray Bobbitt, an East Bay native who is head of the Black-owned team of developers. “She is getting to a point where there could be a proposal submitted soon. The league was initially saying December of last year, but now that has been expanded out, and I think that they’ve changed the dynamic of the expansion process.” Beard, a former WNBA player, … [Read more...] about Oakland WNBA bid a step closer with exclusive negotiating rights to Coliseum site

The United States has gained access to four additional military bases in the Philippines, providing a critical piece of real estate from which to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan. The agreement closes a gap in the arc of US alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north to Australia in the south. The Philippines, which borders two of the most dangerous potential flashpoints – Taiwan and the South China Sea – had been the missing link. The agreement, which partially reverses the US’s departure from their former colony more than 30 years ago, is significant. “There is no contingency in the South China Sea that does not necessitate access to the Philippines,” Gregory B Poling, director of the Southeast Asia program at Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies told the BBC . “The United States is not looking for permanent bases. It’s about locations, not bases.” Under the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement … [Read more...] about Philippines and US Secure Deal for 4 Military Bases