Welcome to the Jan. 6, 2021 edition of Just 3 Things, the weekly social action newsletter of the Office of Human Life & Dignity. If this email was forwarded to you, and you'd like to receive it each week, please click here.
A special note: Please join Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone on Jan. 9 at St. Mary's Cathedral for the first monthly 8 a.m. Mass for Life and Rosary walk to the new Planned Parenthood flagship clinic on Bush Street in San Francisco. This is separate from our Jan. 22 webinar and Mass highlighted below.
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Join Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone in conversation with national leaders on Jan. 22, 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time in a free webinar: "The Prolife Movement: Looking Forward in 2021". Hear from Susan B. Anthony List founder and president Marjorie Dannenfelser, a key architect of a large influx of prolife women elected to the incoming US Congress, and Fordham University moral theologian Charles Camosy, whose First Things essay, "Catholics and the Incoming Biden Administration" proposes ideas for working together. Co-sponsored by Human Life Action and the Archdiocesan Office of Human Life & Dignity. This is part of the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children, a USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities initiative on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In addition, at noon Archbishop Cordileone will offer a special Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral Mass (also available via livestream) and parishes are encouraged to offer individual Masses at each church.
A workers' cooperative in Spain has softened the economic pain of the pandemic--by emphasizing the welfare of the workers even as the country suffers more than 20 percent unemployment. The co-op Mondragon was founded in 1956 by a Basque Catholic priest Father Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta who brought Catholic social teaching to life in a practical way.
Who will be Biden's man at the Vatican? The Pillar, a Catholic news organization fresh on the journalism scene, offers some solid background on the dilemma faced by Pope Francis and President-elect Joe Biden. (Pope Francis greets then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at the Vatican in April 29, 2016, file photo. CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)