Welcome to the April 28, 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. 

Valerie Schmalz

Director

Office of Human Life & Dignity

Archdiocese of San Francisco

Please join in praying particularly for India. The country is suffering from a new wave of COVID-19 infections and inadequate supplies of oxygen and other infrastructure problems are exacerbating the situation, according to reports. “There was lack of planning and lack of foresight. Otherwise, we would not have been in the awful situation we are in now,” Cardinal Gracias, archbishop of Mumbai, told Catholic New Service April 25. That day, India’s health ministry recorded nearly 354,000 new infections and more than 2,800 deaths. In the week of April 18-25, India witnessed exponential spread of the pandemic across the country. (Catholic News Service photo)

Archbishop Riordan High School joined with the Archdiocese's African American Ministry coordinator Chris Major to host a listening session on racism that included law enforcement and school leaders. Melissa Vlach has written a blog post about the event and produced the above video.

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is now on Twitter. Please go to twitter.com/archcordileone to follow him. If you are not on Twitter, you can still check out his tweets on the site. If you are on Twitter, please follow the Archbishop.