Welcome to the Jan. 27, 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. This week our topics are immigration, abortion and a new effort in the Archdiocese to combat and prevent human trafficking.
Valerie Schmalz
Director
Office of Human Life & Dignity
Archdiocese of San Francisco
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Tonight begins our series on Human Trafficking -- the first step to creating an education and outreach campaign led by the Respect Life Ministry.
Tonight's seminar topic is "How You Can Fight Human Trafficking, Over 100 Ways to Make a Difference.” The speaker is Susan Patterson, Prevention Advocate with Through God's Grace Ministry. January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. There is still time to sign up!
President Joe Biden introduced a sweeping immigration package that would offer a path to citizenship to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Much of the immigration package tracks what the U.S. bishops recommend, although they have not taken a position on the legislation. And U.S. bishops praised President Biden's order preserving the DACA program as well as lifting the "Muslim ban" in executive orders on the day he was inaugurated. (Photo shows asylum-seekers praying during Mass at a tent camp along the Rio Grande in Matamoros, Mexico, Jan. 9, 2021. The asylum-seekers are in a program where they must remain in Mexico while their cases are heard in U.S. courts. CNS photo/David Agren)
S.F. Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone last week publicly rebuked San Francisco's Rep. Nancy Pelosi, U.S. House speaker, saying "To begin with the obvious: Nancy Pelosi does not speak for the Catholic Church...she also speaks in direct contradiction to a fundamental human right that Catholic teaching has consistently championed for 2,000 years." For more on the events of the past few days and what to expect going forward, go to the blog linked below. To hear the Archbishop in conversation with two of the most influential pro-life leaders in this time, please watch the webinar linked above.
What's coming up:
- Jan. 27 6:30 p.m. Webinar. "An Overview of Human Trafficking." First of a series. Info here.
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