The city’s school board is busy stripping the names of public schools that honor Lincoln, Washington, and others, even as it refuses to reopen its classrooms.
Sacramento
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle,” wrote the city of San Francisco’s namesake, St. Francis of Assisi. Catholics revere the Italian friar — canonized in 1228 — for his great love of animals and all of God’s creation. As the current pope said in adopting Francis as his papal name, St. Francis also advanced the “idea of poverty against the luxury, pride, vanity of the civil and ecclesiastical powers.”
